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25 May 2022
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Story Alicia Pienaar
The Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities, Prof Heidi Hudson, has the pleasure of inviting you to the inaugural lecture of Prof Paul Fouché in the Department of Psychology.
Event details:
Date: Wednesday 1 June 2022
Time: 17:30 SAST
Venue: Equitas Auditorium, UFS Bloemfontein Campus
RSVP before or on 27 May 2022 to Anneke Diesel, +27 51 401 9314 or email denobilia@ufs.ac.za
Subject:
Understanding Greatness: Dissecting the eminent personality from a psychobiographical approach
About the Speaker:
Paul Fouché has been employed at the UFS since 2007. Currently, he is a professor and a registered counselling psychologist with the HPCSA and an active member of the Psychological Society of South Africa. He is also an NRF C-rated researcher. As research supervisor/co-supervisor, he has graduated 115 postgraduate students.
He served on the editorial committee of Acta Academica, was guest editor of the Journal of Psychology in Africa, and co-editor of special issues on psychobiography for Europe’s Journal of Psychology and two books by Springer. Paul is the
coordinator of the BPsych Honours programme and lectures in the Applied Master’s programme.
Academic credentials:
PhD: 1999, Psychobiography, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
MSocSc cum laude: 1993, Counselling Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
BSocSc Honours cum laude: 1990, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
BSocSc: 1989, Psychology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
University host annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa
2014-01-15
The Department of Philosophy will be hosting the annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) from 20 to 22 January 2014. Over 80 philosophers from Southern Africa and the rest of the world will be participating in the programme. The topics of the papers range from ethics and beliefs to epistemology, socio-political philosophy, natural philosophy, phenomenology, virtues, logic, etc. The conference programme and registration details can be found here:
http://conferences.ufs.ac.za/default.aspx?DCode=725 . Day visitors are welcome to attend the conference. Please contact Helen Cawood at
cawoodh@ufs.ac.za for further information.
Prof Rudi Visker from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, author of books on Levinas, Heidegger and Foucault, who will be speaking at the conference.