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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
University host annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
2014-01-15
The Department of Philosophy will be hosting the annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) from 20 to 22 January 2014. Over 80 philosophers from Southern Africa and the rest of the world will be participating in the programme. The topics of the papers range from ethics and beliefs to epistemology, socio-political philosophy, natural philosophy, phenomenology, virtues, logic, etc. The conference programme and registration details can be found here:
http://conferences.ufs.ac.za/default.aspx?DCode=725 . Day visitors are welcome to attend the conference. Please contact Helen Cawood at
cawoodh@ufs.ac.za for further information.
Prof Rudi Visker from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, author of books on Levinas, Heidegger and Foucault, who will be speaking at the conference.