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Balancing acts: Mothering, womanhood and employment
Prof Ameeta Jaga’s inaugural lecture used the personal and the professional to tackle the balancing act of mothering, womanhood and employment.
29 Aug 2024
My Journey
Prof Mzikantu Plaatjies’s inaugural lecture took a deep dive into the rich tapestry of his life, traditional African music, and the art of musical bow-making.
28 Aug 2024
Radical Critical Fidelity: Barzakhi Journeys in Islamic Feminism
Prof Sa’diyya Shaikh’s inaugural lecture took the audience on a journey of personal fidelity into the delicately balanced world of Islam and the quest for feminism.
23 Aug 2024
Towards effective HIV treatment in South Africa – injustice, clinical pharmacology and adherence
Prof Catherine Orrell delivered her inaugural lecture, which touched on South Africa’s HIV/AIDS denialism past.
22 Aug 2024
Cryo-electron microscopy, a new foundation for molecular medicine and drug design
On 20 August, UCT hosted a Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture, which was delivered by Nobel laureate Professor Joachim Frank.
20 Aug 2024
How are we failing our children? Language and exclusion in schooling
Prof Carolyn McKinney’s inaugural lecture focused on finding out how language can be used in schools as a tool of inclusion or exclusion.
14 Aug 2024
Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy: A View from the Tyhume Valley
Prof Sakhela Buhlungu presented UCT’s 57th annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, 23 August 2023.
23 Aug 2023
Activism and the corporate university: incompatible or possible?
Professor Fran Baum of the University of Adelaide in Australia delivered the 56th annual TB Davie Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, 24 August.
24 Aug 2022
Preventing violence against children and violence against women: Mapping intersections and finding solutions in the Global South
Professor Shanaaz Mathews presented her inaugural lecture on 4 August 2022.
04 Aug 2022
‘Ours is to educate, not to captivate’ – Yunus Ballim
Higher education is not meant to provide answers but to shape graduates’ thinking and reasoning abilities in a complex and ambiguous world, said Professor Yunus Ballim.
27 Aug 2021
‘Economic inequality begets academic inequality’
The 54th TB Davie Memorial Lecture, delivered by Cornell University’s Professor Ravi Kanbur, explored the implications of rising inequality for academic freedom.
06 Aug 2020
Leverage privilege to change education, Madonsela urges
Apartheid has cast a huge shadow over the country, particularly education, and it will need all of society to break the cycle of poverty.
23 Aug 2019
Education and the complex shadow of our unjust past
Professor Thuli Madonsela, Law Faculty Trust Chair for Social Justice and law professor at Stellenbosch University, delivered the Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture on Wednesday, 21 August 2019.
22 Aug 2019
Education and the complex shadow of our unjust past
Professor Thuli Madonsela, former Public Protector, currently the holder of the Law Faculty Trust Chair in Social Justice and a law professor at Stellenbosch University.
21 Aug 2019
Rattling conventional thinking on evolution
Research by Professor Rebecca Ackermann shows that our huge diversity results from two other major evolutionary forces, in addition to natural selection.
19 Aug 2019
‘Freedom requires suffering and resoluteness’
TB Davie Memorial Lecture presenter Dr Steven Salaita argued that academic freedom allows the investigating of things that might upset others – without fear of retaliation.
08 Aug 2019
Fighting the power in hip hop and scholarship
While they may seem worlds apart, music and scholarship face the same challenges, UCTʼs Professor Adam Haupt said during his recent Vice-Chancellorʼs Inaugural Lecture.
05 Aug 2019
‘Retain, protect and defend academic freedom’
TB Davie Memorial Lecture presenter Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola says it’s time to challenge self-censorship, and both internal and external threats to academic freedom.
16 Aug 2018
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