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<p class="MsoNormal"> <i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Forwarded on behalf of the SPARC Africa Open Access
<a href="http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/local-organising-committee">Local Organising Committee</a></span></i><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:24.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">SPARC <i>
Africa</i> Open Access Symposium</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:20.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Open access and social justice driving African development</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">2- 6 December 2019|Cape Town, South Africa</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">7 December: Strategic Planning for SPARC Africa</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Dear all</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">SPARC Africa is hosting an Open Access Symposium.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">This will be a week of workshop engagements and invited papers for critical discourse to advance African open scholarship within a social justice paradigm.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">This will be a week of workshop engagements and invited papers for critical discourse to advance African open scholarship within a social justice paradigm.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">We hope to see you in December.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">SPARC Africa Symposium </span></b><a href="http://www.sparcafricasymp.uct.ac.za/sparc/programme"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#ED7D31;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">draft programme</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">For enquires please contact </span><a href="mailto:jeremiah.pietersen@uct.ac.za;%20lena.nyahodza@uct.ac.za?subject=SPARC%20Africa%20enquiries"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZA">Jeremiah
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