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Rescheduled lecture by Professor Behari-Leak and other updates
The UCT Inaugural Lecture by Professor Kasturi Behari-Leak has been rescheduled for Thursday, 26 May 2026 at 18:30 SAST at The Atrium, Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika (d-school Afrika), middle campus. Read more about this and other recent developments on campus.
14 May 2026
UCT lecture explores the formal foundations of natural language
University of Cape Town (UCT) philosopher, Professor Ryan Nefdt , will deliver his inaugural lecture, “Language, Patterns and Automata: The Algorithms Behind Linguistic Reality”, on Wednesday, 20 May 2026 at 18:00 at the Mafeje Room, Bremner Building, lower campus.
13 May 2026
Media release
Call for applications: Teaching Innovation Grant 2026
I am pleased to share that the University of Cape Town (UCT) has entered into a strategic partnership with HyperionDev, a global leader in online tech education. This collaboration represents an important step in advancing our commitment to innovative teaching and learning and preparing our students for success in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
12 May 2026
UCT professor unpacks the future of Jewish life in South Africa
In an inaugural lecture in the Neville Alexander Building at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Professor Adam Mendelsohn explored how Jewish communities have evolved – and where they are heading. The lecture was titled, “Where to for the Jews?”
11 May 2026
Media release
Re-Seeing Shackville: Ten years on
Marking a decade since the 2016 Shackville protests, UCT’s Faculty of Humanities launched a Digital Humanities programme featuring augmented and virtual reality installations that revisit the protest site and reflect on questions of space, belonging and institutional transformation.
08 May 2026
UCT professor to explore how data shape public health decision-making
Amid growing uncertainty in public health, the director of the Modelling and Simulation Hub, Africa (MASHA) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Professor Sheetal Silal, will present an inaugural lecture exploring how simulation models support public health decision-making by integrating data on diseases, populations and health systems to predict the impact of policy choices, offering a systems perspective on complex health challenges.
08 May 2026
Media release
Inaugural lecture by Professor Silal and other updates
The first lecture for the month of May 2026 in the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Inaugural Lecture series will be presented by Professor Sheetal Silal on Tuesday, 12 May 2026. Read more about this and other recent developments on campus.
06 May 2026
UCT and HyperionDev in partnership to expand access to future-focused skills
The University of Cape Town (UCT) has collaborated with HyperionDev, a global leader in online tech education, in a strategic partnership to deliver a portfolio of high-impact, career-focused online programmes designed to equip students with in-demand digital and leadership skills.
06 May 2026
Media release
UCT and HyperionDev in partnership to expand access to future-focused skills
I am pleased to share that the University of Cape Town (UCT) has entered into a strategic partnership with HyperionDev, a global leader in online tech education. This collaboration represents an important step in advancing our commitment to innovative teaching and learning and preparing our students for success in a rapidly evolving digital economy.
06 May 2026
UCT researchers build multilingual AI system for SA’s official languages
A team of researchers at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) language model trained specifically on South Africa’s 11 official written languages. This marks a significant step toward closing a gap that has left millions underserved by mainstream AI tools.
05 May 2026
Media release
