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15 March 2022
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Story Rulanzen Martin
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The keynote speakers are Dr Khabele Motlosa (right), Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political and Administrative Studies at NUL, and leading Pan-Africanist scholar Prof Molefi Kete Asante(left).
The
Centre for Gender and Africa Studies (CGAS) at the University of the Free State (UFS), together with the
National University of Lesotho (NUL) and the Academic Forum for Development of Lesotho, is hosting an online think tank on the transnational communities of the Lesotho-South Africa border from 19 to 21 March 2021. The theme of the conference is
Lesotho and South Africa: a clarion call for a Pan-Africanist future.
Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, Programme Director: Africa Studies Programme in CGAS, is the convenor of the conference and is also leading the UFS borderlands panel. The borderlands project is jointly funded by the Office of the Dean: Faculty of the Humanities at the UFS, and the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS).
For more information and to register for the conference, click here
UFS Vice-Chancellor selected as Fellow of AERA
2011-02-01
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Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State
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Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State (UFS), has been selected to become a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He is part of the Class of 2011 Fellows - the third group to be inducted based on nomination by their peers, selection by the Fellows Program Committee, and approval by the AERA Council.
The AERA Fellows Program was established by the AERA Council in 2007 to honour education researchers with substantial research accomplishments, to convey the association’s commitment to excellence in research, and to emphasise to new scholars the importance of sustained research of excellence in the field.