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11 May 2021
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Prof Walter D Mignolo from Duke University will be the speaker at this year’s Africa Day Memorial Lecture.
The Africa Day Memorial Lecture is an important event for the University of the Free State (UFS) and the
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies. This year’s lecture will be presented virtually by
Prof Walter D Mignolo and will focus on
The beauty
of the sovereign people: Jean Casimir and the decolonial history of Haiti. The discussant will be Prof Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni.
Africa Day is celebrated annually on 25 May under a different theme. The theme for Africa Month 2021 as declared by the
African Union is:
The AU Year of the Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Want.
Follow discussions about Africa Month on social media:
#UFSAfricaMonth | #AfricaMonth| #OneAfrica
About the speaker:
Prof Mignolo is a professor of Romance Studies and professor of Literature. He is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University in the United States of America. He was an honorary research associate in the Centre for Indian Studies in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Read more about Prof Mignolo here
Students from the Department of Physics won five prizes
2006-07-21
Students from the University of the Free State's (UFS) Department of Physics won five prizes during the 51st annual conference of the South African Institute for Physics (SAIP) that was presented at the University of the Western Cape.
The award winners are from the left back: Mr Martin Ntwaeaborwa (best Ph D lecture), Mr Heinrich Joubert (best Ph D publication), Ms Lisa Coetsee (best M Sc poster), Mr Richard Harris (best M Sc lecture) and Mr Brain van Soelen (best M Sc poster in Astrophysics). In front from the left are the study leaders: Prof Pieter Meintjes, Prof Koos Terblans and Prof Hendrik Swart. Proff Swart and Terblans were also elected as vice-chairperson and secretary of the Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science of SAIP.