You are herewith invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Thursday 28 November 2019
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 201

EIGHTH lecture in 2019: Notre-Dame de Paris: cathedral and historical novel

Speaker: Prof Naòmi Morgan, Dept of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, UFS

On 15 April 2019, the unthinkable happened: Notre-Dame Cathedral started burning. In this last public lecture of 2019 it is fitting to look at the reasons why the date may be considered a cultural doomsday. We shall take a closer look at some of the historical events associated with the cathedral. Because the lecture emanates from a department specialising in language and literature, we shall also review the historical novel which made the cathedral internationally famous: Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris. The December holiday is at hand; 2019 may be the year to re-read the novel which turned Notre-Dame into a novel character, or to discover it for the first time?

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.

You are herewith cordially invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Friday 8 November 2019
Time: 10:30-11:30
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 201

SEVENTH lecture in 2019: Hoe gaat het Nederlands om met varianten en variatie wie bepaalt eigenlijk wat de standaardtaal is? (How does Dutch accommodate variation and variants and who actually determines what the standard language is?)

Speaker: Marc le Clerq, former senior policy adviser and acting general secretary of the Nederlandse Taalunie and honorary member of the Suider-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek.

The lecture will be presented in Dutch.

The book launch of JC Steyn en Afrikaans – ’n Viering (edited by A van Niekerk, HP van Coller and BJ Odendaal) in honour of Prof JC Steyn will take place on 16 October at 17:00. For full details, click here.

You are herewith invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Thursday 5 September 2019
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 201

SIXTH lecture in 2019: Musiek: Op en af, heen en weer, noot of nooit
Speaker: Dr Anneke Lamont, Department of Music, UFS

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.

You are herewith invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Friday 26 July 2019
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 15 (Seminar Room, Dept of Philosophy)
RSVP: Petronella Bango, Bangopj@ufs.ac.za
Speaker: Dr Jan-Ad Stemmet, Department of History, UFS

FIFTH lecture in 2019: Boerebuuste, skurwe lieste en die plesier van sensuur oftewel, 'n beknopte oorsig van spraakvryheid in die Republiek

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.

You are herewith cordially invited to an informal discussion on the publishing industry and the publication process by Fourie Botha, publisher at Penguin Random House.

The informal discussion will be in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.

RSVP: Ida Meiring
meiringi@ufs.ac.za
Tel: +27 51 401 2816
Date: Thursday 28 June 2019
Time: 11:30-13:00
Venue: Economic and Management Sciences Building, Room A103

You are herewith cordially invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Friday 3 May 2019
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 201

THIRD lecture in 2019

Speaker: Dr Francois Smith, author and lecturer, Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, UFS

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.

You are herewith cordially invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Friday 8 March 2019
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 201

SECOND lecture in 2019: A conversation on Verbintenis en venster: die Nederlandstalige letterkunde van aanvang tot hede: ‘n literatuurgeskiedenis in Afrikaans (2019)

Speaker: Prof Hennie van Coller, former Head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, UFS, and Chief Editor and author of Verbintenis en venster, in conversation with Prof Henning Pieterse.

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Interpreter services will be available on request. Please inform mrs. Ida Meiring by Wednesday, 6 March, if you need interpreting services.

You are herewith cordially invited to a public lecture presented by the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French at the University of the Free State.

Date: Friday 8 February 2019
Time: 11:30-12:30
Venue: Flippie Groenewoud Building, Room 202
FIRST lecture in 2019: “Books on my shelf”
Speaker: Dr Gilbert Gibson, award-winning poet and medical practitioner in Bloemfontein

The lecture will be presented in Afrikaans. Please let us know if interpreter services will be needed.