by Professor Amy Stambach (Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Amy Stambach is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pragmatic Faith: Working through Ethnic Conflict in a New Democracy
This presentation is based on a co-authored book project with Dr. Aikande Kwayu, Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin and PhD in International Relations, University of Nottingham.
“Pragmatic Faith” examines how the...

Triple Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, Edward Albee’s acclaimed play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? opens at the Baxter at the end of April. Directed by Fleur du Cap winner Mdu Kweyama, and performed by Jennifer Steyn, Lionel Newton, Paul Savage and Sihle Mnqwazana, the play is about a married, middle-aged architect who falls in love with a goat and catapults his family into a crisis. Book before Friday for the R120 early bird discount.
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Join us on the 25th of April as the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship hosts a Map the System Challenge: Pitch and Selection evening. Bertha Centre is an official partner of the global student competition which is run annually by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.
Map the System is a competition that asks students from any discipline to think differently about social and environmental change. The competition challenges teams to thoroughly research a specific social and environmental issue in order to fully comprehend its underlying...

Among the diverse pathogen species known to cause morbidity and mortality in humans, parasitic helminths are by far the most prevalent but least understood. The current estimates of more than one billion people worldwide who are infected with one or more helminth (worm) species is clear evidence that basic and applied research focused on these pathogens is urgently needed for global human health. Moreover, basic science studies using helminth-based experimental systems have led to remarkable discoveries of new cell lineages and novel molecular and cellular pathways. It is clear that a...

A Seminar Series hosted by the UCT Faculty of Health Sciences 2019 presented by Karen Sliwa-Hahnle and Linda Muller.
How the creative and expressive arts can be integrated with health sciences and healthcare.