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The D. C. S. Oosthuizen Memorial Lecture at Rhodes University, dedicated to the memory of the philosopher D. C. S. Oosthuizen, was founded in 1970 and is held annually. The lectures are organised by the university's Academic Freedom Committee.
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Irving R. Hexham is an English-Canadian academic who has published twenty-three books and numerous articles, chapters, and book reviews. Currently, he is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, married to Karla Poewe who is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Calgary, and the father of two children. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship.
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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is a multi-university lecture series in the humanities, founded in 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, by the American scholar Obert Clark Tanner. In founding the lecture, he defined their purpose as follows:
I hope these lectures will contribute to the intellectual and moral life of mankind. I see them simply as a search for a better understanding of human behavior and human values. This understanding may be pursued for its own intrinsic worth, but it may also eventually have practical consequences for the quality of personal and social life.
The following lists events that happened during 2010 in South Africa.
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Slabbert is a surname of Middle Dutch origin, meaning either "herring fisher" or "glutton foul-mouthed person". Notable people with the surname include:
