Rhodes University International Week 2024
Date: 25 May 2024 09:30 – 26 May 2024 19:00
Location: Rhodes University
Organiser: Orla Quin (Phone 046 603 8217)
Event Type: Ceremonies
Monday 21st May – International Fair (The Day Kaif)
(Learn about African countries and Exchange programme opportunities beyond the continent).
Time 12:00 – 13:00
Open event
Contact person: t.mothudi@ru.ac.za
Monday 21st May – Seminar (Faculty of Humanities Seminar Room, 1 Prince Alfred Street)
Chinese Resettlement policies and practice in the hydropower development sector
Presented by: Prof Shi Guoqing and Dr Zhang Xiaochen, National Research Center for Resettlement, Hohai University, China
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
Tuesday 22nd May – How can I go on exchange? Q@A (Glass box, Eden Grove)
Time 13:00 – 14:00
Open event
Contact person: t.mothudi@ru.ac.za
Wednesday 23rd May – Colloquium (Rhodes University Library)
The national approach to internationalisation: where are we and what are the implications? DHET internationalisation policy, NRF opportunities and how internationalisation drives the publishing world.
Time 09:00 – 12:00
Researchers/academics event
Directly following the colloquium: Thinking outside the borders
Dedicating a space to Internationalisation and International Education in the Rhodes University Library. Collection of literature to be presented to the library.
Please indicate attendance in advance of colloquium, as light lunch will be ordered and served.
Contact person: d.booi@ru.ac.za
Wednesday 23rd May – Update on Immigration processes and agreements with IEASA, pertaining to the University community. Opportunity for Q&A. (Barrat lecture theatre 3)
Time 18:30
Open event
Contact person: d.booi@ru.ac.za
Thursday 24th May – International Purple Thursday
Activities and Language Carousel (School of languages courtyard).
African language speakers are invited to meet the rest of the world and teach each other phrases from their own languages. This is a participatory event; not a spectator event.
Share your interest in participating and the language you can teach.
Time 12:00 – 13:00
Open Event
Contact person: d.wolhuter@ru.ac.za
Friday 25th May – Post Doctoral Fellows meet and greet soirée (Senior Common Room)
Time: 17.30 – 19.00
Closed event
Contact person: a.ramanah@ru.ac.za and d.booi@ru.ac.za
Saturday 26th May – Africa Ball (Oppidan Dining Hall)
Time: 19:00
Open event. Tickets are now available and selling fast!
Contact person: d.booi@ru.ac.za
Please note that calls will shortly be released for:
1) Applications for the Academic Internationalisation Award
Contact person: o.quinlan@ru.ac.za
2) Calls for the most accomplished polyglot of 2024 on the Rhodes university campus.
Contact person: d.wolhuter@ru.ac.za