Due to the Covid-19 situation, the University Management Committee approved that the planned celebrations in semester 2 for Gender and Language Awareness weeks (GAW and LAW) in 2020 could be combined into an online event that takes place according to the dates indicated above. During this week, the NWU wants to facilitate critical conversations about the current affairs related to Gender-Based Violence and to expand its conversations about the use of South African languages in domains such as education and the media.
The “Speaking my gender” concert will be the first item on the NWUs 2020 joint Gender and Language Awareness week, the NWU will facilitate courageous gender and language awareness conversations that “trouble our past” and “re-imagine our future”. The events of the week will be offered online.
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- For GAW: Advocate Rene Koraan (rene.koraan@nwu.ac.za)
- For LAW: Professor Susan Coetzee-Van Rooy (susan.coetzeevanrooy@nwu.ac.za)