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Moderator and Panellists

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

 

 

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UFS Convocation to convene
2014-04-03

You are invited to attend this meeting convened at the request of the President of the Convocation, Prof Johan Grobbelaar. 

The agenda is:

1. To discuss the recent events on the Bloemfontein Campus, as well as the way in which management handled them, and make decisions about these.
2. The election of a representative of the Convocation on the Council of the UFS. The term of the incumbent, Paul Colditz, expires in October 2014. Colditz is available for re-election.

According to the Statute of the UFS, published in the Government Gazette, 27 August 2010, No 33490, Volume 542, members of the Convocation are defined as:

• All Alumni, thus current and former students who obtained a formal qualification at the UFS.
• All permanent academic staff of the UFS, from appointment level of lecturer to professor, who are not necessarily an alumnus of the UFS.
• All permanent support service staff of the UFS, from appointment level of Deputy Director to Rector and Vice-Chancellor, who are not necessarily an alumnus of the UFS.

Date: Tuesday 15 April 2014
Time: 18:00
Place: Albert Wessels Auditorium, Bloemfontein Campus

For further information, contact alumni@ufs.ac.za / +27(0)51 4019343.

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