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15 March 2024

The Faculty of the Humanities Centre for Gender and Africa Affairs, in collaboration with the Department of Science and Innovation, Academy of Science of South Africa, and the Edith Cowan University, will be hosting a Visiting Scholar Lecture with Prof Loretta Baldassar titled: Transnational Family Care: from social death to digital kinning over a century of Australian Migration.

Staff and students are encouraged to attend. The details are as follows:

Date: 18 March 2023

Venue: Council Chambers, George du Toit Building

Time: 15:00

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Please contact Portia Gailele at gailelepb@ufs.ac.za to RSVP to this event.

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Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award nominations open
2013-07-04

04 July 2013

The nomination process for the 2013 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award is now open. The Fellowship carries a total monetary value of R1.5 million and is the most prestigious award handed out by the Openheimer Memorial Trust.

According to the organisers, the award ‘serves to reward excellence and exceptional scholarship in all its forms.’  Nominations are welcome from South African universities, universities of technology, science councils, research and policy institutes, as well as deserving individuals with no specific institutional affiliation.

The deadline for applications and nominations is 1 November 2013, with no limits for nominations by single institutions. Previously nominated candidates may also re-apply for 2013.

More information on Submission criteria, nominations, applications and selection processes.

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