2022
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23 June
| “Max Havelaar (1860): The structure and effect of Multatuli's anti-colonial novel”, Prof Jerzy Koch (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
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24 February
| “A thirst for knowledge and application: Translation Studies in the Estonian academic landscape". Prof Ilse Feinauer talks to Prof Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu, Estonia)
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2021
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15 April
| Marius Swart talks to Pieter Fourie about his debut novel, The heart is the size of a fist, and Marius's translation, ʼn Hart is so groot soos ʼn vuis
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13 May
| Prof Rufus Gouws talks to former colleague Prof Leon de Stadler about the new, revised edition of the Tesourus van Afrikaans
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10 June
| With Sybille: Sjarmante vriendin (1968) – a virtually unkown translation by the author Alba Bouwer – as a point of departure, Lizelle Smit and Danie Stander discuss Bouwer, etiquette literature and 'charm' as a prescript for acceptable Afrikaner femininity in the 1960s
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21 October
| “Wat gaan vir wat in WAT XVI”: Alet Cloete (senior co-editor) and Dr Gerda Odendaal (co-editor) of the WAT in conversation with prof Rufus Gouws
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4 November
| Prof Andries Visagie interviews Prof Jerzy Koch, extraordinary professor in literature at the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch and head of the Department of Dutch and South African Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
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11 November
| Daryll David talks to Prof Harold Lesch about the bid to have Stellenbosch declared a UNESCO City of Literature
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2020
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5 March
| "The false opposition theory versus practice in Translation", Prof Luc van Doorslaer, University of Tartu (Estonia)
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2019
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18 April
| "South African culture and society in the global sixties", Prof Geert Buelens (Utrecht University)
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25 April
| "Denver Breda and his vision for Khoekhoegowab en Afrikaans", Prof Andries Visagie talks to Denver Breda.
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9 May
| "The importance of consecutive interpreting in the training of sign language interpreters", Prof Harold Lesch talks to Prof Myriam Vermeerbergen
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16 May
| "Teaching Khoekhoegowab", Dr Elbie Adendorff talks to Pedro Dausab about the prospects for teaching Khoekhoegowab.
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29 August
| "Digital language resources for Afrikaans", Benito Trollip talks to Prof Rufus Gouws about what SADiLaR can offer researchers
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19 September
| Charl-Lingefelder talks about the Afrikaans film Kanarie and his role as music and sound designer, and writer
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3 October
| Mercy Kannemeyer talks to Azille Coetzee about her remarkable debut In my vel
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17 October
| Prof Andries Visagie talks to Alettie van den Heever about her debut novel, Stof
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2018 |
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29 March
| "Language policy for multilingualism: The international agenda (2015-2030)", Prof Gilvan de Oliviera
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19 April
| Valda Jansen talks to Prof Louise Viljoen about her new book Hy kom met die skoenlappers
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10 May
| "Dramadoenig", upcoming theater makers Des-Lee Mckenzie, Du Toit Albertze and Igna Botha talk to S.Z. Minnaar of VER[r]AS about their work and the Afrikaans teatre landscape
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16 August
| Dr Carolin Müller-Spitzer of Institut für Deutsche Sprache (Mannheim) talks to Prof Rufus Gouws about "Research into dictionary use"
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20 September
| Annie Klopper talks to Ryan Pedro about her new book Die tragiese saak van Pamina Vermaak
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1 October
| Henry Liu: “Translation, is this the right career for me? Will I have a job after I graduate? On ways to be the most sought after talent or translator”
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25 October
| Marlene van Niekerk: Pro-vocation – poems and perceptions: politics and ethics.
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2017 |
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16 February
| "Variation in sign language", Dr Hanelle Fourie Blair (WAT) talks to Prof Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven)
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6 April
| "Walking with wildness: Dogs and what they can teach us about living on an endangered Earth" Prof Karla Armbruster (Webster University, St Louis, MO)
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17 August
| "The AWS, 100 years", Dr Frikkie Lombard (WAT)
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31 August
| S.Z. Minnaar of VER[r]AS talks to Fourie Botha about his new book Krap uit die see
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28 September
| "Poems on the paintings of Adriaen Coorte and Jan Mankes", Sonja Loots and Prof Marlene van Niekerk
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19 October
| Kila van der Starre talks to Remona Voges about "Poetry outside the page", the poetry duo Kila & Babsie and various other matters
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2016
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18 February
| "Terminology and cognition in assessment contexts", Prof Bassey Antia (UWC)
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25 February
| Tom Lanoye talks to Prof Andries Visagie about his work
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7 April
| "Afrikaans: 1976 – 2016: Conversation with students"
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14 April
| "The role of translation in language planning", Prof Anthony Pym (Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain)
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22 September
| "Human-animal studies in Afrikaans Literature", Dr Joan-Mari Barendse talks to Prof Andries Visagie about his interest in and research on the field of human-animal studies
Click here for an audio recording: Mens-dier-studie in die Afrikaanse literatuur
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5 October
| "Afrikaans in the virtual world: Technology and globalisation", Dr Jacques du Plessis (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) in conversation with Dr Elbie Adendorff
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2015
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12 March
| "Different types of sign (language) usage", Prof Myriam Vermeerbergen (KU Leuven) talks to Dr Hanelle Fourie Blair (WAT)
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23 April
| "Sharpeville in South African literature and culture", Prof Geert Buelens (Utrecht University)
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7 May
| "Afrikaans: 90 years as official language", MA student Christel Swart talks to Ria Olivier of the Western Cape Language Committee
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28 May
| "Thinking ahead: Critical questions on language in higher education", Prof Mbulungeni Madiba (UCT) talks to Dr Gerda Odendaal and Marius Swart
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23 July
| Dr Willem Anker talks to Tertius Kapp, winner of the 2015 Hertzog Prize for Drama
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3 September
| "The use of smartphones in second-language teaching", Prof Martina Nied Curcio (Rome University) in conversation with Prof Rufus Gouws
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1 October
| "Dutch-Afrikaans: Literary border traffic and Daniel Hugo as gatekeeper", Prof Yves T'Sjoen (Ghent University)
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2014
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6 March
| "Writer-translators: Georges Eekhoud (Belgium, 1854-1924) and André P. Brink (1935-)", Maud Gonne (KU Leuven) talks to Lelanie de Roubaix
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10 April
| "Kaar: Prof Marlene van Niekerk talks to Marius Swart about her new volume of poetry"
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24 April
| "Afrikaans: 100 years as a langauge of tuition", Dr Gerda Odendaal in conversation with Eldridge Jason
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15 May
| "Marcel Breyne: Activist Germanist Afrikanist", Prof Geert Buelens (Utrecht University)
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28 August
| "Who, what, where and where to: The Worodfees and Words Open Worlds Project", Prof Dorothea van Zyl
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25 September
| "Gerrit Komrij's image formation in the early poetry of Breyten Breytenbach in the Netherlands", Prof Yves T'Sjoen (Ghent Universiteit)
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9 October
| "Simply imaginative or dramatically different? An investigation into Lauren Beukes's Zoo City within the framework of heterotopic literature", Alettie van den Heever
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2013
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18 April
| "Educational interpreting in the Law Faculty: The impact on teaching and learning", Carmen Brewis
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23 May
| "Regarding the writing process, historical novels, Coenraad de Buys and what have you", Dr Willem Anker in coversation with Dr Desmond Painter (Department of Psychology)
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15 August
| "Dictionary portals and the organisation of the lexicographic process", Prof Stefan Engelberg (Institut für Deutsche Sprache)
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29 August
| Recent shifts in memories of the Second World War in the Netherlands and the work of WF Hermans", Prof Siegfried Huigen
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19 September
| "The presence of Breyten Breytenbach in the poetry of Rutger Kopland, Roland Jooris and others", Prof Yves T'Sjoen (Ghent University)
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10 October
| Behind the scenes of literary translation: Teh short stories of Christiaan Bakkes in English", Dr Carla-Marié Spies
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