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17 August 2020
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Story Nitha Ramnath
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Within the next five years, 60% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas. Urban living comes with large-scale economic advantages and society benefits from economies of scale. But, COVID-19 is challenging urban living. We have introduced the term ‘social distancing’ and some policy analysts have even argued for the de-densification of cities.
Join us for a discussion where our panellists will analyse this perceived conflict.
Date: Thursday, 27 August 2020
Time: 14:00 to 15:30 (South African Standard Time – GMT +2)
Please RSVP to Elelwani Mmbadi at
mmbadiE@ufs.ac.za no later than 25 August, upon which you will receive a Skype for Business meeting invite and link to access the webinar.
Speakers:
Prof Ivan Turok
Dr Geci Karuri-Sebina
Mr Thiresh Govender
Moderator:
Lochner Marais
International symposium on multilingualism and exclusion
2006-04-26
The Unit for Language Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented an international symposium on multilingualism and exclusion in collaboration with the Universities of Gent and Antwerp.
Some of the guests attending the symposium were from the left Prof Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford, United States of America), Prof Theo du Plessis (Director: Unit for Language Management at the UFS), Prof Reinhild Vanderkerckhove (University of Antwerp) and Prof Timothy Reagan (University of the Witwatersrand).