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04 August 2021 | Story Rulanzen Martin


Humanities Biennial Humanities and Gendered Worlds Lecture_web 
The Centre for Gender and Africa Studies is proud to host Prof Gabriele Griffin from Uppsala University as the speaker for the 2021 Biennial Humanities and Gendered Worlds Lecture. 

Date: 11 August 2021
Time: 18:00
Platform: Vimeo

 


 More about our speaker:
 Prof Griffin is from Gender Research at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is the coordinator of the   Nordforsk-funded centre of excellence, Nordwit, and editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and   Humanities’ series (Edinburgh University Press). Her research interests centre on contemporary   women’s writing; women’s cultural production; feminist theatre; and writing diaspora. She has also   written extensively on women’s/gender studies as a discipline, as well as on research methods. She   has co-ordinated EU-funded research on more sociological topics, such as women’s employment and methodological issues.

 

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UFS student named as SA Women's Hockey Player
2010-11-08

 Lesley-Ann George.

Lesley-Ann George, student and staff member in die Office: Corporative Liaison, Institutional Advancement and Sport at the University of the Free State (UFS), was named by SA Hockey as die South African women’s hockey player of the year. This is the highest recognition that a woman’s hockey player can receive in South Africa.

Lesley-Ann, the Vice-Captain of the Protea team, has this year already represented South Africa in, amongst others, the World Cup Tournament in Argentina en the Commonwealth Games in New-Delhi, India. At the latter meeting the Protea team came fourth.

We are absolutely delighted about Lesley-Ann’s se performance,” said Mr Frans van der Watt from KovsieSport at the UFS. He was also happy that the UFS could play a part in Lesley-Ann’s entry into international hockey. Lesley-Ann is the captain of the UFS women’s hockey team.

“It is an incredible privilege. Many of the other players also deserve this honour, because they have a good season behind them,” said Lesley-Ann.

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