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Prof Yusufu Turaki to speak at colloquium-reading
The Institute for Foundational Studies invites everyone to another Foundational-reading in their colloquium series for 2011.
Speaker: Prof Yusufu Turaki
Subject: AN INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN TRADITIONAL WORLDVIEW
ABSTRACT:
African studies has generated a lot of interests from time memorial, especially its religious, cultural and human factors. Africa in all its facets has fascinated historians, religionists, missionaries, anthropologists and empire builders or colonialists. This makes it very difficult for the students of Africa to have a good grasp of African traditional worldview in a systematic and comprehensive way. A search for the details or parts of an African traditional worldview often leaves African students without a comprehensive and systematic understanding of the African traditional worldview. This paper is an attempt at a systematic presentation
to the beginners in African traditional worldview. This approach builds a system of an African traditional worldview. The entire presentation is an explanation of the major components of the African traditional worldview: (1) the traditional theological beliefs; (2) the traditional psychological beliefs; (3) the traditional philosophical beliefs; (4) the traditional moral and ethical beliefs; (5) the traditional religious and social practices; and (6) the traditional African anthropology. This background study of the African traditional worldview form the basis of understanding African traditional, religious, social, moral and ethical beliefs and practices.
Date: Friday, May 27
Venue: G07 - Building F13 (Social Sciences)
Time: 11:00 -12:30
Please contact L Styger at X1786 or send her an email at linda.styger@nwu.ac.za for more information or confirmation of attendance.
Click here for CV of Prof Turaki
Prof Jim Olthuis to speak at colloquium-reading
The Institute for Foundational Studies invites everyone to another Foundational-reading in their colloquium series for 2011.
Speaker: Prof Jim Olthuis (emiritus professor of Philosophical Theology, Institute for Christian Studies)
Subject: "Beautiful Risk: Healing Connections"
Date: Friday, May 27
Venue: G18 - Building F13 (Social Sciences)
Time: 11:00 -12:30
Please contact L Styger at X1786 or send her an email at linda.styger@nwu.ac.za for more information or confirmation of attendance.
Click here for CV of Prof Jim Olthuis
PUK-FORUM 17 MARCH 2011
In commemoration of the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University’s 142-year existence, the Office of the Campus Rector, the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences and the Institute for Foundational Studies of the Potchefstroom Campus presented the NWU-PUK-Forum on 17 March 2011.
The keynote speaker was Prof Maarten Verkerk and the theme was: “Economic sustainability through managerial accountability”. Striving towards economic sustainability, in a world of dwindling resources, the deterioration of the environment and increasing demands of a growing world population is one of the most actual matters today. The question of executives, on all levels, is how to act ethically in the workplace within the context of sustainability.
Prof Herman van Schalkwyk (Rector, Potchefstroom Campus) opened the function, Prof Paul Styger did the contextualisation of the programme, Prof Danie Strauss acted as respondent and Prof Pieter Buys led the discussion and summary of the lecture.
Abridged CV of Prof Maarten Verkerk:
Prof Dr Maarten Verkerk studied chemistry and physics at the University of Utrecht. He receives his doctorate from the Technical University of Twente with a study of the electrical properties of oxidising metals. From 1982 to 2002, he was associated with Philips as factory- and innovation manager in the Netherlands, Germany and Taiwan. He increasingly focuses on the ethical aspects of management and, in 2004, he obtains a doctorate from the University of Maastricht, entitled: Trust and Power on the Shop Floor: An Ethno-graphical, Ethical, and Philosophical Study on Responsible Behavior in Industrial Organizations”. In 2004, he is named Professor in Reformatory Philosophy in the Technology Management Faculty of the Eindhoven University of Technology and since July 2008, he has had a comparable chair at the University of Maastricht. He is the author of a large number of articles and books pertaining to aspects of ethical management.
Recently, he wrote a book with Jan Hoogland on Jewish wisdom in times of crisis: Prediker voor managers. Levenswijsheid voor bestuurders en professionals (Ecclesiastes for managers. Wisdom for administrators and professionals).
Verkerk also presented two lectures on 15 March in the School of Economics:
The Insider: Integrity and business and
The moral bankruptcy of the financial world
