A Day in the Life of the University of Pretoria. 19 August 2021

On this "Day in the life of the University of Pretoria" Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-Chancellor and Principal of UP, presented his inaugural address as part of the Faculty of Humanities.

Apart from holding the reigns at UP, Prof Kupe is also an internationally recognized academic. He holds a BA Honors degree and Masters degree in English from the University of Zimbabwe as well as a DPhil in Media Studies from the University of Oslo in Norway. His presentation entitled “New media, new society: reimagining media and society in a disrupted age”,  highlighted how new media activates and facilitates intellectual rethinking of society in an ambiguous, discursive and transforming context.

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