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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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Children’s author donates material for research
2012-04-04

 

Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French receives more than 70 books, manuscripts and translations from Kovsie alumnus Jaco Jacobs.  
Photo: Stephen Collett
4 April 2012

The well-known children’s author and former Kovsie, Jaco Jacobs, donated more than 70 of his books, manuscripts and translations to the University of the Free State. The work will be included in the authors’ room of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French on the ground floor of the UFS Sasol Library.

Mr. Jacobs is an award-winning author who also worked as editor of Volksblad’s youth supplement, Jip. He received the degree B.A. (Communication Science) cum laude from our university. He has been awarded, amongst others, the Alba Bouwer Prize, C.P. Hoogenhout Award, MML Prize for Literature, Elsabé Steenberg Award and eight ATKV children’s book awards.

Mr Jacobs says he hopes the donations will provide insight into the writing process. “It would be wonderful if someone could do research because youth literature is not a genre that receives a lot of attention.”

Prof. Hennie van Coller, Head of the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch, German and French, says the donation is very valuable in terms of research. He says in other parts of the world, a lot of money is paid for this type of work.

 

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