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Summer School 2025
Free lectures, tours, excursions, workshop
Campus Tours led by Emeritus Registrar, Hugh Amoore, of the university’s Rondebosch campuses
Design thinking 101
Exploring mosses on upper campus
Indigenous Tree identification in Newlands Forest
Professor John Stuart Saunders lecture
Threats and conservation interventions: the(critically endangered African penguin
Trees on Upper campus
UCT and surrounds heritage route
UCT distinguished alumni lecture: South Africa’s second transition and The ‘GNU’: miracle or mirage?
Vice-Chancellor's lecture
Architecture and the Built Environment
Conservation and Nature
Green Zone landscapes
Landscape heritage and garden design
Nan Lian Garden
Seabirds of the Benguela Bounty
Southern African documentary film-making
The mystery of mossess
What is that tree? exploring the diversity of trees in urban areas in Cape Town
History, Philosophy, Politics, Current Affairs, Economics
2024 Elections: from US to Europe, India and Iran
A socio-political journey through sport
Africa: a battleground for the Russia-Ukraine war?
An intellectual tour of Asian popular culture
Cartooning ructions: when the parallel universe intersects with the real world
Disinformation nation: how smear campaigns and character assassins can shape a country
Eighty years since D-Day
Elections 2024: why the DA Mmusi Maimane, Songezo Zibi and Zackie Achmat failed
Existentialism: origins, meaning and implications
Fantasy and fact in immigration politics and policy
How South Africa survived State Capture and the lessons
How to win the war on corruption
Italian prisoners of war: the real story of their captivity in in South Africa during World War Two:
Karoo Roads
Lessons from the Springboks
Organised crime on our doorstep: exposing the underworld's extensive reach
Raiders, traders and crusaders: how the Baltic Rim shaped the world
Remembering the Union Castle shipping line
South Africa's State owned enterprises: From state capture to governance reform
South Africa's multiparty government: success or realignment
Sudan: past, current and future
The challenge of economic development during the financialised phase of capitalism
The human impact of large-scale disaster
The world and South Africa beyond 2025: the lates flags, scenarios, and probabilities
Tony Heard: his life as a journalist
Understanding Africa-China relations
Winnie and Nelson Mandela
Information Technology
Applications of AI
Symbolic artificial intelligence in the age of ChatGPT
The role of ethics in scientific knowledge and emergent technology
Will robots take my job?
Literature, Art, Music
A month in Provence
An uncomfortable paradise:a history of dispossession and slavery in Simon's Town
Art, serenity and conflict: a tale of five cities
Art, tattoos and extra-ordinary lives: writing trailblazing women
Ausi told me
Crooked seeds
Debussy and impressionism: the triumph of light
Empire of spies
Every day is an opening night: a troubadour tells his story
Hamlet? I saw it on Radio
How to listen to classical music: enhancing your understanding and appreciation
J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
J.S.Bach reinvented
Manet: master of the modern idiom
Mussorgsky: pictures at an exhibition
One more sea to cross
Pens versus guns: challenging colonialism
Phases, phrases and palindromes
Rising stars in concert: Opera UCT
The Arabic-Afrikaans witing tradition: history and development
The Frozen North: Inuit art and culture
The Sonnet
The South African Musical
The art of the illustrated book
The meaning of a life: a South African scientist's tale
The painted Christ
The poetry of God
The young Picasso
Writers bear witness: the Second World War
Writers bear witness:between the wars 1919 -1939
Writing reviews that resonate - book bashing or not?
Medicine
Anaesthesia during the Anglo-Boer War
Chinese medicine
Hot Topics in Neuroscience
Acute stroke: the what, the who and the where to
Dementia: overview and new directions
Ketamine: revolutionary new treatment for depression or pseudoscience?
Ketamine: revolutionary new treatment for depression or pseudoscience?
The neuroscience of forgiveness
The use of mushrooms in te treatment of mental health disorders
Implementation of the NHI
Legalisation of assisted dying
Pacemakers for hearts save lives
Palliative care: a fundamental aspect of universal health coverage
The neuropsychology of Long Covid
The paradox of a life changed by a lung transpalnt
Towards a Proton Beam facility for cancer
Unlocking the mind: exploring the frontier of psychiatric genomics
Practical Courses
A journey in Colour
Chinese for beginners
Italian Intermediate
Lets write about life
Not definite: 'first hand eye'
Unleashing your creativity through writing
Science
Amamzing amphibians
Are we stardust or nuclear waste?
Big ideas in the biological sciences:do we have free will?
Bizarre birds
Carbon dioxide: the trace greenhouse gas of life
Climate crises and opportunities in South Africa 2025
Finding 'old fourlegs' : the recent history of the coelacanth
How far away is the sun?
Ice ages: past, present and future
Incredible insects
Life history recorded in bones and teeth
Marvelous mammals
Rediculous reptiles
Spaceflight in the 21st century
The lion's historian
The marvels of electricity
Summer School 2024
Architecture and the built environment
Compounds and hostels: history and transformation
The significance of vernacular architecture
Conservation and Nature
Into the future: the Kruger National park as a region
Mastery of societal fissures as a way to approach economic opportunity
Sisters of wilderness
The Okavango Delta:paradise in peril
Excursions and Tours
A Guided tour of D-School: Africa's state-of-the-art building
Body Donation why and how?
Campus Walking Tours
Indigenous tree identification in Newlands Forest
Map my way curated heritage route
The early UCT Grootte Schuur Rondebosch campus: architects and architecture
Information Technology
AI unveiled: Understanding artificial intelligence and its impact on our world
Will robots take my job
Law and human rights
Cyper space and human rights
Know your rights under the Consumer Protection Act and the National Credit
Pension funds in South Africa: learnings from tales of greed, folly and virtue
Literature Art Music
A Wander through the wonder of some fascinating English words
Art in motion
Books that changed my life
Five favourites: Poetry in Person
From the Cape to Cairo
I know what I Iike
Iintrospection and documentation: an overview of dominant strands in contemporary South African photography
Indian classical music: reverie and understanding
Landscapes in art: creating heaven on earth
Mathematics in the plays of Tom Stoppard
Moulded by the hands of god
Mozart: myths, mysteries and music
Notes and curiosities from Florence
Painting and the eye of the beholder
Rising stars in concert: Opera UCT
Robert and Clara Schumann: very private lives
Schizophrenia: Journey and care
Sir Abe Baily: a biography
The first true romantic: exploring the troubled musical genius of Robert Schumann
The medical road less travelled
The people's bible: fresco cycles and the golden legend
The unprecedented media cult of Daisy de Melker
Medicine
A tale of two disorders: ADHD and ASD
Understanding breast cancer
Anaesthesia: more than just a deep sleep(part 1)
Anaesthesia: more than just a deep sleep(part 2)
Body donation: why and how
Breaking the mould: the real story of penicilin
Child Abuse: a socio-historical perspective
Molecular oncology and personalised cancer care
Painful Osteoarthritis: treating pain that is not all about the joint
Philosophy, Politics, Current Affairs And History
100 years of Radio: from a woman's perspective
Africa's Nobel Laureates: have we received enough credit?
Antisemitism in South Africa: a history
Are you living up to your blue china?
Boneshakers and b: the colourful history of the bicycle
Bringing the looters to justice: the case for an international anti-corruption court
Cartels and Collusion: exposing South Africa's organised crime reality
Cuba and Africa 1959 -1994: writing an alternative Atlantic history
Eskom: power, politics, and the (post)apartheid state
Fantastic fishes
From Metternich to Merkel: the search for German identity
Generals Botha and Smuts and the First World War
How South Africa got out of 80s growth slump: can it o so again?
Indefinite life extension: is it a good idea?
Is it still safe to drink tapwater and swim in our waterways
Lightbulb moments
Mining the complex legacy of Harry Oppenheimer
NHI: PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE ACT
Operation Vula: the secret communications network that helped end apartheid.
Robert Grendon's dream: Remarkable black intellectual, poet, cricketer
Russian invasion of Ukraine: Ukrainian diplomacy, new era and opportunities for Ukraine and the global south
South Africa beyond 2024: coalition politics and democratic stability amidst political fragmentation
The impact of Charles Darwin's visit to the Cape of Good Hope in 1836 on his theory of evolution and natural selection
The intelligence war in South Africa: 1939 -1948
The world and South Africa beyond 2024: the lates flags, scenarios, and probabilities
War on Cuba: Belly of the beast
What does compassion, or Ubuntu, mean in Contemporary South Africa?
Who was Napoleon 11?
Women and Culture in the Renaissance
Practical Courses
German for beginners
Intermediate Italian
Irma Stern Museum : creative art workshop
Isixhosa Communication Skills For Beginners
Italian For Beginners
Nature writing
Open book
Spanish for beginners
Story development
Through music into image
To control or lose control: drawing with ink
Turkish for beginners
Write Your Short Story, from concept to completion
Science
Asteroid collisions: planetary curse or blessing
Cederberg rock paintings as a social archive
Fire and ice: the earth's special place
Interesting physical phenomena
Sharks: the perfect predators
Sustainable seafood production through integrated aquaculture
The cell: a biologist's peep into an awesome micro-universe of riveting beauty and of life's origins
Short Courses
Friends of Summer School
EMS Writers Forum
2024 Summer School Short Story Course
Nicole Loser
Nkateko Masinga
Patricia Mcleod
Memoir Writing Workshop 3 September 2022
Carin van den Heever
Denise Zinn
Fiona Hulme Brophy
John Adam
Lebogang Montewa
Simthandile Mhlambiso
Susan Orr
Suzanne Gardener
Write Your Short Story, from concept to completion
Aadhiya Tulsi
Kat Volkwyn
Madeline Gray Glass
Your wonderful novella journey: fiction and creative non-fiction
News
Summer School 2023
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
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
Human Sexuality: Understanding The New Paradigm
Neuroscience Then And Now
Science Marches On: Fascinating Developments
Understanding And Managing Dementia
Functional Medicine And Nutrition Therapy
No Pain, No Brain
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
Laetoli footprints
Conservation and Nature
EXTRAORDINARY GARDENS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Extraordinary Gardens From Around The World
The Evolution Of A Great Garden: Kirstenbosch 1913 To 2023
Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden: A Journey Through 110 Years
Information Technology
Cloud Technologies that are changing our world today
Practical Courses
‘life Is Not Still’: Let’s Bring Still-life Back To Life
The Joy Of Drawing: A Course For Beginners
Introduction To Botanical Painting
Isixhosa Communication Skills For Beginners
Turn Your Writing Dreams Into Reality
How To Write A Novel
News archive
Heidi Maritz
Olivia Wright
Tegan Dean
Trish van der Nest
Val Bruce
EMS events calendar
EMS Outreach
462 million-year-old fossilized eyes and brains uncovered in 'secret' Welsh fossil site