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08 April 2020
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Story Prof Francois Vreÿ, and Prof Hussein Solomon
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The international response to the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a health security threat stimulated an international response that commenced with drastic, but localised actions in China, but responses rapidly manifested in more extreme measures in the rest of the world. Amidst international efforts imposing extraordinary national and international movement restrictions and a rush to find a medical cure, two questions arise. First, how does COVID-19 as a health security threat feature within the global security debate and second, how to explain the harsh responses that one observes.
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International symposium on multilingualism and exclusion
2006-04-26
The Unit for Language Management at the University of the Free State (UFS) presented an international symposium on multilingualism and exclusion in collaboration with the Universities of Gent and Antwerp.
Some of the guests attending the symposium were from the left Prof Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford, United States of America), Prof Theo du Plessis (Director: Unit for Language Management at the UFS), Prof Reinhild Vanderkerckhove (University of Antwerp) and Prof Timothy Reagan (University of the Witwatersrand).