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31 July 2020
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As a public higher-education institution in South Africa with a responsibility to contribute to public discourse, the University of the Free State (UFS) will be presenting the 3rd UFS Thought-Leader Series in collaboration with Vrye Weekblad as part of the Vrystaat Literature Festival’s online initiative, VrySpraak-digitaal.
This year, higher-education institutions
globally are placed in the challenging context of COVID-19. Aware and grounded in the reality that the world will not return to the normality of pre-COVID-19, our responsibility as scholars still remains to contribute to public discourse and to offer
innovative solutions that will impact the lives of people nationally and globally in order to help them understand and adapt to a new world order.
Against this background and context, this year’s debates focus on ‘Post-COVID-19, Post-Crisis’,
with Health and Modelling, Politics, Economy, and Predictions for 2021 as the sub-themes. Placed in a COVID-19 context, and in lieu of the Vrystaat Arts Festival,
the series will be presented virtually in the form of one webinar per month during the period August 2020 to November 2020.
Date: 13 August 2020
Topic: Health
and Modelling
Time: 11:30-13:00
RSVP: Alicia Pienaar, pienaaran1@ufs.ac.za
Facilitator:
Max du Preez
Editor: Vrye Weekblad
Biography
Introduction and welcome:
Prof Francis Petersen
Rector and Vice-Chancellor, UFS
Panellists:
Prof Salim Abdool Karim
Director: Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA)
Chair: South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19
Biography
Prof Glenda Gray
President and CEO: South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC)
Biography
Prof Felicity Burt
NRF-DST South African Research Chair in vector-borne and zoonotic pathogens research
Biography
Kovsie Open Day
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The Kovsie Open Day will once again be hosted by the University of the Free State on 5 and 6 May 2005. The Kovsie Open Day is a window on the opportunities the University offers learners to equip themselves for their careers.
Learners are welcome to visit the exhibitions in the Callie Human Centre and Thakaneng Studentcentre from 08:30-16:30 on Thursday 5 May and from 08:30 - 14:00 on Friday 6 May. The same programme will be presented on both days. At this event learners will be introduced to all aspects of student life… and a lot more.
All the exhibitions of the Faculties will be at the Callie Human Centre and the Hostels and Student affairs will be outside the Callie Human. All the shops and Restaurants at the Thakaneng Bridge will be open with many "Openday specials".
Contact Mrs. Linda Greyling with any enquiries at 051-401 3384.