Inaugural Lecture: Professor Shadreck Chirikure

15 May 2019 | Video DIG. Photo Je’nine May.

Professor Shadreck Chirikure, director of the Archaeology Materials Laboratory and head of the Department of Archaeology in UCT’s Faculty of Science presented the Vice-Chancellor’s inaugural lecture titled: “Why does ‘success’ continue to elude contemporary Africa?” on 3 May 2019.


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The UCT Inaugural Lecture Series

 

In April 2023, Interim Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Daya Reddy announced that the Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural Lecture Series would be held in abeyance in the coming months, to accommodate a resumption of inaugural lectures under a reconfigured UCT Inaugural Lecture Series – where the UCT extended executive has resolved that for the foreseeable future, all inaugural lectures will be resumed at faculty level.

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The Vice-Chancellor’s Inaugural Lecture Series

 

Inaugural lectures are a central part of university academic life. These events are held to commemorate the inaugural lecturer’s appointment to full professorship. They provide a platform for the academic to present the body of research that they have been focusing on during their career, while also giving UCT the opportunity to showcase its academics and share its research with members of the wider university community and the general public in an accessible way.

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2019

 

 

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2016 and 2015

 

No inaugural lectures took place during 2015 and 2016.

 
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