Festival of learning – Summer School 2023
The 73rd University of Cape Town (UCT) Summer School, which ran from 9 to 28 January, was a festival of open learning, also showcasing UCT’s excellent research.
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Summer School 2023
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Literature, Art, Music
- Guiding Lights: Great Writers From Ancient Greece To Seventeenth Century Japan
- In Conversation
- Jane Eyre
- Even more excellent, little-known books
- Books As Magic Carpets: Why, How And What We Read
- Madness in Greek tragedy: a study of three plays
- Art as a mirror
- Bird and fish: their enduring symbolism
- The Gothic Cathedral
- The great divorce: abstraction and expressionism in the 20th century
- Christo vs Warhol: brilliant art and eccentric personalities
- Dialogues Across Time And Space: A Noisy History Of African Art
- Enchanting the eye and the ear
- Vive la France! A festival of French music through the ages
- Tipping points: the evolution of music
- Film music: the new classical?
- IN CONVERSATION: CHILDREN OF SUGARCANE
- In conversation: the boy who never gave up
- A MORNING WITH IRMA STERN
- Music across time
- Jazz on the lawn
- I Came From The Wilderness
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Philosophy, Politics, Current Affairs and History
- The Long View: Getting Behind The Horror Of South Africa’s Headlines
- The Enlightenment
- Exploring Eastern Thought: Religions, Philosophies And Cultures Of The East
- A ‘history of the Future’ In the 21st Century: Yuval Noah Harari
- Escape From Pretoria
- The Russian War In Ukraine: The Origin, Narratives And Potential Impacts On The African Continent
- 882 Ad: The Origins Of Putin’s Ukrainian War
- The World And South Africa Beyond 2023: The Latest Flags, Scenarios And Probabilities
- The ANC Below 50%: What Is The Road Ahead?
- Anatomy Of State Capture
- South Africa’s Black Middle Class: Past, Present And Future
- Philosophical Lives
- A Voyage Of Discovery: The Trans-siberian Railway
- Napoleon, The Rosetta Stone, And The Deciphering Of Ancient Egypt
- OCEANIC HISTORIES
- FAMILY SILVER: BURIED SEPTEMBER 1939; RETRIEVED OCTOBER 2019
- Medicine
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Science
- Encounters With Table Mountain And The History Of Geology
- Water For Cape Town: 370 Years Of ‘not Quite Enough’
- In The Aftermath Of Extinctions
- Astronomy Highlights With The Meerkat Radio Telescope
- Seeing Black Holes With An Earth-sized Telescope
- Inside Schrodinger’s Cat
- Let’s go tracking in the Jurassic: fossil footprints of Southern Africa
- Where death delights helping the living
- Cape Town’s Rivers And Wetlands: Field Trip
- Conservation and Nature
- Information Technology
- Practical Courses
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Literature, Art, Music