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  • Summer School 2025
    • Free lectures, tours, excursions, workshop
      • Vice-Chancellor's lecture
      • Professor John Stuart Saunders lecture
      • UCT distinguished alumni lecture: South Africa’s second transition and The ‘GNU’: miracle or mirage?
      • Campus Tours led by Emeritus Registrar, Hugh Amoore, of the university’s Rondebosch campuses
      • Exploring mosses on upper campus
      • Design thinking 101
      • Indigenous Tree identification in Newlands Forest
      • Threats and conservation interventions: the(critically endangered African penguin
      • Trees on Upper campus
      • UCT and surrounds heritage route
    • History, Philosophy, Politics, Current Affairs, Economics
      • 2024 Elections: from US to Europe, India and Iran
      • Eighty years since D-Day
      • Raiders, traders and crusaders: how the Baltic Rim shaped the world
      • A socio-political journey through sport
      • Africa: a battleground for the Russia-Ukraine war?
      • An intellectual tour of Asian popular culture
      • Disinformation nation: how smear campaigns and character assassins can shape a country
      • 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
      • 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
      • Cartooning ructions: when the parallel universe intersects with the real world
      • Winnie and Nelson Mandela
    • 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
    • Information Technology
      • Applications of AI
      • Symbolic artificial intelligence in the age of ChatGPT
      • Cancelled:The role of ethics in scientific knowledge and emergent technology
      • Will robots take my job?
    • 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?
        • The neuroscience of forgiveness
        • The use of mushrooms in the 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
    • 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
      • Cancelled 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?
  • 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
        • News archive
      • Heidi Maritz
      • Olivia Wright
      • Tegan Dean
      • Trish van der Nest
      • Val Bruce
  • 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
  • EMS events calendar
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    • Philosophy, Politics, Current Affairs And History
    • 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
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  • Friends of Summer School
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  • Summer School 2023
  • EMS events calendar
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