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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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Congress: South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM)
2007-08-04
The UFS Department of Music invites all interested parties to the first congress of SASRIM which will take place in the Odeion on the UFS Campus on 23 - 25 August. This society was founded last year to replace the two separate South African music research bodies which existed, namely the Southern African Musicological Society and the Ethnomusicology Symposia.
The congress brochure, which contains all the relevant information and registration form, can be downloaded below.
If you have any questions, please call Matildie Thom (051 401 2810; 084 557 1123; thommj@ufs.ac.za ).