{"id":50579,"date":"2023-04-12T09:09:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T07:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spu-recognised-globally-for-a-decade-of-its-management-system-success-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-05-09T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T07:26:27","slug":"call-for-abstracts-for-the-spu-international-language-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/call-for-abstracts-for-the-spu-international-language-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Abstracts: International Language Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"50579\" class=\"elementor elementor-50579\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c891cce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c891cce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a345ff7\" data-id=\"6a345ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71cfc1c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71cfc1c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sol Plaatje University<\/span><\/a> is pleased to announce that the School of Humanities will host an International Language Conference from 6-8 September 2023.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Department of Languages and Communication within the School of Humanities calls upon all academic scholars and postgraduate students to submit proposals under the theme: \u201cServants of Africa \u2013 African Languages in the 21st Century\u201d.Download the Call for Abstracts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/SPU-International-Language-Conference.pdf\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Keynote speakers for this International Conference include, Ms Anzil Kulsen (Northern Cape Writer), Ms Sindiswa Busuku (Writer, University of Cape Town), Prof Niklaas Fredericks (Namibia University of Science and Technology), Dr Eileen Elizabeth Pooe (North-West University) and Prof Henry Thipa (Nelson Mandela University).<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Abstract Submission<\/strong><\/span><\/p><ul><li style=\"text-align: justify;\">An abstract of 150-250 should be submitted to <a href=\"mailto:abstracts.langconf@spu.ac.za\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">abstracts.langconf@spu.ac.za<\/span><\/a> no later than Friday,\u00a0 9 June 2023.<\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Proposals must include the title of the paper, keywords, author\u2019s name\/s and title, affiliation\/s, and a contact email address. Reference lists are not required.<\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Papers may focus on any African language but abstracts and presentations during the conference must be in one of the official languages of the Northern Cape where the University is situated, i.e., Afrikaans, English, Setswana, and isiXhosa.<\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstracts and presentations in Afrikaans, Setswana, and isiXhosa must be accompanied by a translated summary in English. Interpreting services into English will be available for presentations in Afrikaans, Setswana, and isiXhosa.<\/li><li style=\"text-align: justify;\">All queries may be directed to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:admin.langconf@spu.ac.za\">admin.langconf@spu.ac.za<\/a><\/span><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sol Plaatje University is pleased to announce that the School of Humanities will host an International Language Conference from 6-8 September 2023. The Department of Languages and Communication within the School of Humanities calls upon all academic scholars and postgraduate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/call-for-abstracts-for-the-spu-international-language-conference\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":50586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[241],"class_list":["post-50579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51320,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50579\/revisions\/51320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50579"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=50579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=50579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}