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10 January 2020
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Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
Welcome to the University of the Free State! This is an opportunity to enjoy yourself and have the best years of your life. This is the message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs at the University of the Free State, to new first-year students.
About 7900 new first-year students will start their study journey at the UFS this year, and Pura has some advice for the new Kovsies.
WATCH: Message from Pura Mgolombane, Dean: Student Affairs
Music professor speaks about research, responsibility and scholarship
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Prof.Greg Barz’s inaugural lecture focuses on “Music, Advocacy and Activism in Contemporary Scholarship”.
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19 November 2012
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Lecture (Pdf format)
“The roles of musicians, dancers, and storytellers are changing and continue to adapt in the face of increasing health care crises in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, as are the roles of ethnomusicologists as they engage community responses to global issues.” This is according to Prof. Greg Barz, Senior Professor at the Odeion School of Music, in his inaugural lecture delivered this month. Prof. Barz’s lecture focused on Music, Advocacy and Activism in contemporary scholarship.