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24 May 2022


The Faculty of the Humanities will be hosting a round-table dialogue on ‘Humanistic Perspectives on Student Protests in South Africa’, an important discussion on a matter that is currently in the spotlight at the UFS and other institutions nationally. Both students and staff are invited to attend in-person or virtually.


The dialogue aims to discuss ‘humanistic perspectives’ on student protests and includes, among others, the following topics:

• Dynamics of student protests
• The relationship between politics and protests
• Why protests are a challenge for the higher education secto
• Possible responses to protests by universities.


Event details

In-person venue: Equitas Auditorium
Online platform: Microsoft Teams
Date: 30 May 2022
Time: 14:00-16:15


Moderator:
Dr Grey Magaiza
 
Panellists:
Prof Francis Petersen (Rector and Vice-Chancellor
Prof Sethulego Matebesi (Department of Sociology)
Prof Nyasha Mboti (Department of Communication Science)
Prof Joy Owen (Department of Anthropology)
Prof Colin Chasi (Unit for Institutional Change and Social Justice) 
Mr Motlogeloa Moema (Student Affairs)

Opening remarks: 
Prof Chitja Twala, Vice-Dean: Faculty of the Humanities 

Closing remarks:
Prof Heidi Hudson, Dean: Faculty of the Humanities 

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Darwin lecture on transitions and extinctions presented at the UFS
2009-04-01

 
"Transitions and extinctions" was the topic of the latest lecture in the year long lecture series called "The story of life and survival" presented last week on the Main Campus of the University of the Free State (UFS) in Bloemfontein. The lecture was presented by Dr Jennifer Botha-Brink, a palaeontologist at the National Museum, and affiliated to the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the UFS. "Most species that have ever lived on earth are extinct, so understanding the processes of extinction is crucial to understanding the evolution of the biosphere,'" said Dr Botha-Brink. She discussed the causes of mass extinctions and their effects on the world's organisms - an issue that may be relevant to us as human beings as we enter the next major mass extinction. Here are, from the left: Prof. Jo van As, Head of the Department of Zoology and Entomology at the UFS, Dr Botha-Brink and Mr Rick Nuttall, Director of the National Museum.
Photo: Stephen Collett

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