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14 October 2022
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Story Edzani Nephalela
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Photo UFS Photo Archive
On 20 October 2022, the University of the Free State (UFS) Faculty of Theology and Religion will present the distinguished Tutu-Jonker lecture in honour of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Prof Willie Jonker. These two theologians are well-known in South Africa for their emphasis on reconciliation, and the series of lectures is a tribute to their reconciliatory efforts.
This will be the first in-person Tutu-Jonker lecture since COVID-19 and the passing of Archbishop Tutu. The keynote speaker, Dr Lazarus Mokobake, Chaplain in the South African Defence Force, will deliver the lecture, themed: ‘Faltering resilience – a nation in need of conciliation’.
Registrations close on 14 October 2022.
Expert in Hebrew visits the UFS
2009-02-26
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Dr Jason Kalman, an expert in Classical Hebrew and Jewish Intellectual History, recently visited the Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language and Language Practice at the University of the Free State (UFS) to present a number of lectures. Dr Kalman is assistant professor of Classical Hebrew at the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati, United States of America. He and Prof. Jackie du Toit, professor at the department, have just completed a manuscript for McGill-Queen’s Press (Montreal, Kanada) about McGill University’s purchase in the 1950’s of cave 4 fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dr Kalman is a research fellow in the department. Here is Prof. Annelie Lotriet, head of the Department of Afroasiatic Studies, Sign Language and Language Practice at the UFS and Dr Kalman.
Photo: Lacea Loader |