It is time for the 2014 Winter Graduation on our Bloemfontein Campus. From 2 – 4 July 2014 Masters and Doctoral degrees will be bestowed on graduates from across all seven faculties as well as the School of Open Learning. These include the conferral of Medicine degrees on the South African Cuban trainees.
Wednesday 2 July 2014 at 14:30: School of Open Learning The School of Open Learning will confer a total of 609 degrees this year – almost double compared to the 320 of last year.
Thursday 3 July 2014 at 09:30: Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences Prof Magdalena Blum will receive an Honorary Doctorat, DPhil
honoris causa, at this event. Prof Blum is an Extension Systems Officer in Rome. She works for a specialised agency of the United Nations called the Food and Agriculture Organization. This organisation’s mandate is:
• to improve nutrition,
• increase agricultural productivity,
• raise the standard of living in rural populations and
• contribute to global economic growth.
Her position serves to modernise and strengthen rural advisory services, their systems and networks worldwide. She has filled this position for almost nine years.
Prof Blum is driven by a passion for development, humanitarian work and female upliftment, but most of all, to enable people to help themselves.
Blum’s life has taken her from a small German village to Africa, Asia and Europe – and she has made an impact wherever she went.
Thursday 3 July 2014 at 14:30: Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences, Humanities, Education, Health Sciences, Law and Theology At this ceremony, Faculty of the Humanities will award an Honorary Doctorate, DPhil
honoris causa, on Prof Laura Mulvey. She is a feminist film theorist and worked at the British Film Institute for many years. She is currently a professor at Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Prof Mulvey was prominent as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1970s and ‘80s. In collaboration with her husband, Peter Wollen, she co-wrote and co-directed:
• Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974),
• Riddles of the Sphinx (1977, perhaps their most influential film),
• AMY! (1980),
• Crystal Gazing (1982),
• Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (1982), and
• The Bad Sister.
In 1991, she returned to filmmaking with Disgraced Monuments, which she co-directed with Mark Lewis.
Friday 4 July 2014 at 10:30: Special Graduation Ceremony Conferral of Medicine Degrees on the South African Cuban trainees at the UFS
Live streaming will be available on:
http://www.ufs.ac.za/ufslivestreaming/