Workshop presentations
“Researching and writing the histories of universities”, presentation at Workshop for the Research Project on the History of Universities in South Africa at STIAS in Stellenbosch, May 2022.
“University of Pretoria histories”, presentation at Workshop for the Research Project on the History of Universities in South Africa at UJ in Johannesburg, March 2024.
“Commissioning Commissions: the National Archives of South Africa holdings”, joint presentation with Prof Karen Harris at Workshop for the Research Project on the History of Universities in South Africa at UJ in Johannesburg, March 2024.
Conferences and seminars
Michler, B., “ ‘A story of South African customs’: H.-A. Junod’s Zidji”, paper presented at UP Interdisciplinary Seminar, 2004.
Strydom,B., R. Groenewald & L. Changuion, “Out of the mouths of the Alumni: the University of Pretoria as a case study”, paper presented Department of Arts and Culture National Oral History Conference, 2004.
Strydom, B., “Belonging to fiction? A reconsideration of H.A. Junod in the light of his novel Zidji”, paper presented at Historical Association of South Africa Jubilee Conference, 2006.
Strydom, B., “From hagiography to fiction? Missionary biography in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries”, paper presented at Christian Missions in 19th and 20th Century Southern Africa and in Comparative Perspective, July 2007.
Strydom, B., “University histories: Reconsidering the early history of the University of Pretoria”, paper presented at UP Interdisciplinary Seminar, 2008.
Strydom, B., “The education controversy: Universities in the Transvaal Colony (1902-1907)”, paper presented at South African Historical Society Conference, June 2009.
Strydom, B., “Appropriating commemoration: the University of Pretoria – 1960, 1980 and 2008”, paper presented at Historical Association of South Africa Conference, 2010.
Strydom, B., “University histories: from public relations to historical enquiry”, paper presented at Unisa 140 years Commemorative Seminar: The making of university histories in South Africa, September 2013.
Strydom, B., “War, education and identity: discord at the Transvaal University College (1914-1919)”, paper presented at Historical Association of South Africa Conference, June 2014.
Strydom, B., ““To buttress the ideal of national unity”: broad South Africanism and higher education in the early twentieth century”, paper presented at UP Department of Historical and Heritage Studies Departmental Seminar, September 2014.
Strydom, B., “A historiographical survey of South African university history”, paper presented at Unisa Department of History Seminar, November 2015.
Strydom, B., “Born of Apartheid? Examining the historical narratives of former “non-white” universities in South Africa”, paper presented at Historical Association of South Africa Conference, June 2016.
Strydom, B., “Experiments in bilingual higher education: an examination of the origins of Afrikaans as a second medium at the Transvaal University College”, paper presented at Unisa Department of History Seminar, May 2017.
Strydom, B., “The roaring twenties? The evolution of institutional identities at the Transvaal University College in the 1920s”, paper presented at South African Historical Society Conference, June 2017.
Strydom, B., “Changing states: One hundred years of Humanities education at the University of Pretoria”, paper presented at the South African Society for History Teaching Conference, September 2019.
Strydom, B., “Reflections on writing a centenary history for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria”, paper presented at the Society for the History of Humanities Conference, November 2019.
Strydom, B., “Too republican and too liberal: Edgar Brookes and the University of Pretoria”, paper presented at Historical Association of South Africa Conference, June 2023.
Research assistance
Ad-hoc research for Prof Charles van Onselen, University of Pretoria, 1999, 2002, 2004
Joseph Silver and miscellaneous research (Newspaper research & National Archives)
Research for Prof Randall Packard, Emory University, Atlanta, 1999
History of malaria in the Lowveld (TEBA Archives)
Research for Prof Ian Phimister, University of Sheffield, 2002
Chinese Mining and Engineering Company (National Archives)
Research for Dr. Melanie Walker, University of Sheffield, 2003, 2004
Assistance with arranging student interviews at the University of Pretoria
Gender policy in education research
Conducted interviews with students
Research for Prof J.S. Bergh and Prof Ian Phimister, University of Pretoria, 2005
Original Dutch documents by Paul Kruger (National Archives)
Research for Prof J. Jansen, 2007
Newspaper research
Membership
Historical Association of South Africa, Member of Executive.
Research Project on the History of Universities in South Africa, Member of National Working Group.
History of Education Society, Member.