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Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture Series
2014
The Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture series was established to enable anyone in the community, whether they are connected to the university or not , to have the benefit of hearing first-hand from academics, researchers and innovators who have distinguished themselves in their areas of expertise from South Africa ,but particularly, from around the world.
Attendance to the lectures is free of charge as the series is one of the ways that UCT seeks to give back to the Cape Town community.
Dr Rajesh Tandon
26 August
Knowledge Democracy: Reclaiming Voice for All
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (74.5 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Prof John D Barrow
9 July
The Evolution of the Universe
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (49.9 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Prof John Barrow delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Prof Katherine Newman
5 May
After Freedom: The rise of the post-apartheid generation in democratic South Africa.
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (48.18 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Sir Eric Ash
27 February
The climate change threat - any room for optimism? A challenge to Science and for Diplomacy.
The annual Wolfson Memorial Lecture, part of the VC's Open Lecture Series.
Sound: full speech (33.6 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Dr Jane Goodall
6 February
Road to Gombe: Primatologist and chimpanzee champion Dr Jane Goodall with Vice-Chancellor Dr Max Price.
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (16.6 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Dr Jane Goodall delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
2013
Prof Partha Chatterjee
1 August
Modern Empires and Nations
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (16.6 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Prof Partha Chatterjee delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Dr Earl Lewis
18 June
The Ever-Changing Contours of the Affirmative Action Debate in the United States
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (8.9 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Dr Earl Lewis delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Prof John Lennox
12 March
A Matter of Gravity - God, the Universe and Stephen Hawking
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (12.8 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Prof John Lennox delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Prof Arthur Kleinman
7 February
Caregiving and Goodness: Their Broader Role in Society
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (12.8 mb); Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play.
Watch video: Prof Arthur Kleinman delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
2012
Prof John Braithwaite
26 July
Restorative justice: Republican vision & justice as a better future
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (12.4 mb); Video
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Prof Bruce Alberts
23 May
Science & the World's Future
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (20.7 mb); extract
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2011
Prof Anton Zeilinger
25 October
Quantum games & quantum information
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (23.6 mb); extract
Right-click on the files to download them (recommended) or click to play. Monday Paper article.
Watch video: Prof Anton Zeilinger delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - 27 September
The Tradition of Critique & Feminist Writing
Sound: full speech (20.2 mb); extract
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Watch video: Professor Gayatri Spivak delivers a Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture at UCT
Dr Ismail Serageldin
25 July
Universities & the Unfolding Knowledge Revolution
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (19.0 mb); extract
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Watch video: Dr Ismail Serageldin speaks at UCT
Prof Raewyn Connell
20 July
Intellectuals in the 21st century world
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Sound: full speech (28.7 mb); extract
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Watch video: Professor Raewyn Connell delivers the VC Open Lecture at UCT
Sir David Attenborough
13 April
Alfred Russel Wallace and the Birds of Paradise
Sound: full speech (15.0 mb); extract
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Monday Paper article
Watch video: Open lecture and the Q & A session
Sir Howard Davies
29 March
Financial crisis - How is to blame?
Sound: full speech (17.0 mb); extract
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Monday Paper article
Dr Francis S Collins & Sir Mark Walport
3 March
Genomics and global health in 2011 and From Genes to Health
Sound: Dr Francis S Collins full speech (11.7 mb); extract
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Sound: Sir Mark Walport full speech (15.6 mb); extract
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Monday Paper article