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UFS Africa Day Memorial Lecture 2021

11 May 2021 | Story Rulanzen Martin | Photo Supplied

Prof Mignolo_web read more — 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.

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Date: 19 May 2021
Time: 19:00
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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.

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UFS staff attend conference in Poland

2006-07-21

Staff members of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences' Department of Public Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) attended the conference of the International Association of Schools and Institutions of Administration (IASIA) in Warsaw, Poland. During the visit the delegates also met the South African ambassador in Poland, Ms Febe Potgieter-Gqubele.

From the left: Prof Hendri Kroukamp (Programme Director: Public Sector Management); Prof Moses Sindane (Departmental Chairperson: Public Management); Ms Potgieter-Gqubele, Dr Liezel Lues (lecturer); Mr Lyndon du Plessis (lecturer) and Prof Koos Bekker (lecturer).

Prof Moses Sindane, Departmental Chairperson of the Department of Public Management at the University of the Free State (UFS), received the Pierre de Celles award for the best paper delivered at the IASIA's conference that was held in Miami in the USA in September 2003. The title of the paper was 'Public administration versus public management: Parallels, divergences, convergences and who benefits?'.

During the award ceremony were from the left: Prof Sindane, Prof Turgay Ergun (President of IASIA) and Prof Hendri Kroukamp ( Programme Director: Public Sector Management at the UFS and member of the management of IASIA).

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