UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

Events

Global Student Leaders Travel and Learning Camp 2012! 

 

The National University of Singapore will be hosting the Global Student Leaders Travel and Learning Camp 2012 in Singapore from 
15-20 February 2012 and aims to culturally immerse the participants as well as hone their knowledge in one of the four areas offered:

1) Nature

2) Cultural & History

3) Sciene & Technology

4) Education

Please click on links below to view or download information

Information brochure
Application Form
Indemnity Form 

For further enquiries, please contact us at cpr@gsltlc.org or visit our website: www.gsltlc.org 

Viking Pirates 

Neil Price, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, will deliver a talk on Viking history at Origins Centre on Tuesday March 6, entitled ‘Viking Pirates: the creation of a maritime identity’. 

The Viking expansion that unfolded c.750-1050 AD created the modern nation states of Scandinavia and led to a far-flung diaspora of Nordic peoples that transformed the northern world. 

But how did it start? Why did the inhabitants of what are now Norway, Sweden and Denmark begin to make such dramatic attacks on their neighbours, and why did they escalate so quickly? 

Professor Price will look at the very first Viking raids and raiders, examine their motives and background, and explore their development in the early ninth century. 

Over the crucial 50-year period under review, a few boatloads of opportunistic marauders became fleets numbering hundreds of ships, growing to armies of thousands that included both men and women. Using comparative studies of pirate groups from later times, it will be argued that these first Vikings created a unique form of maritime community, blending violence with political and social ambition. In so doing, they shaped new identities for themselves and left a historical legacy that can still be seen today. 

 

Date: Tuesday 6 March 2012

Venue: Origins Centre

Time: 18h00 for 18h30

Cost: R45/R35 Wits students and staff

Bookings essential: ask@origins.org.za

 

 

From left ? Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Chancellor, and HE Mr Peter Tejler, Ambassador of Sweden to South Africa
From left - Fredrik Reinfeldt, Prime Minister of Sweden, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Chancellor, and HE Mr Peter Tejler, Ambassador of Sweden to South Africa

Fredrik Reinfeldt , Prime Minister of Sweden, visited Wits on the 10th September to deliver a lecture titled:
'Sweden, Europe and South Africa: Common challenges and possibilities?'


Read or download the Prime Minister's speech

African University Day, 12 November 2009
Research and Training for Sustainable Development in Africa

Venue : Hospital Auditorium, Medical School, University of the Witwatersrand

Read or download event programme

Welcome


Professor Loyiso Nongxa: Vice Chancellor
and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand

 

 

 

 


Opening Address


The Honourable Minister Naledi Pandor:
Minister of Science and Technology, South
Africa

 

 

 



Keynote Address


The Honourable Commissioner Jean Pierre
Ezin: Commissioner in Charge of Human
Resources Science and Technology of the
African Union on " The African Union Research
and Training Initiative for Development : The
Pan African University "

 



Keynote Address



Mr Lumkile Mondi : Vice-President Industrial
Development Coorporation of SA on high
level skills requirements for business
opportunities and economic growth in Africa

 

 



Keynote Address


Dr Shahid Yusuf : Economic Advisor, World
Bank Institute on "Universities as drivers of
knowledge-based development"