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Archives: 2010
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Braille Awareness Workshop - 6 October
UCT's Disability Service and the Pan South African Language Board hosted the Braille Awareness Workshop on 6 October. This workshop comprised of talks, discussions, performances and an exhibition, and carried one message: Braille is central to everything blind people do.
Opening and welcome
Justice Zak Yacoob (Constitutional Court Justice)
Keynote address
Full speeches
When audio alternatives are not an option
Full speech
Braille and my life as a music teacher
Full speech
How I became the maths teacher to blind learners
Full speech
Using braille to forge a career
Full speech
Tactile book "pictures" for young braille readers
Full speech
The parents' perspective
Full speech
A last word
Full speech
Full speech
Full speech
Full speech
Full speech (including closing remarks)
Prof Alice Walker - 9 September
Coming to see you since I was 5 years old. An American poet's connection to the South African soul.
The 11th Annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture
Full speech (15 mb); extract
Mr Thabo Mbeki - 6 September
The role of student leadership in African development
Public lecture at the African Student Leaders' Summit in Jameson Hall
Full speech (16.9 mb); extract
UCT admissions policy debate (moderated by Judge Dennis Davis) - 2 September
Dr Mamphela Remphele - 30 August
Beyond philanthropy to investing in the future
Alumni Leadership Forum at UCT
Full speech (12.2 mb); extract
Prof Deborah Posel - 12 August
Conspicuous Consumption, Conspicuous Waste: Thorsten Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class
Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series
Full speech (17 mb); extract
Dr Max Price and Dr Dr Mamphela Ramphele - 12 August
Launch of the Open Society Monitoring Index
Max Price (10.6 mb); Mamphela Ramphele (14.7 mb)
Robin Briggs - 12 August
The knowledge economy & academic freedom
TB Davie Memorial Lecture
Full speech (12.9 mb); extract
Professor Heather Zar - 28 July
Child lung health in Africa: challenges & opportunities
Inaugural lecture
Full speech (13.5 mb); Part two
Judge Dennis Davis - 15 July
Speaking at a UCT law alumni function in Harare, Zimbabwe
Re-conceiving the doctrine of the separation of powers
Full speech (11.5 mb); extract
Dr Marta Lahr - 25 May
Vice-Chancellor's Open lecture, introduced by Prof John Parkington, Department of Archaeology
African origins & the evolution of human diversity
Full speech (15.3 mb); extract
The FIFA footprint - what will be the World Cup's governance Legacy?; 20 May
A seminar hosted by the Democratic Governance and Rights Unit (DGRU) and facilitated by director Prof Richard Calland
Chris Oxtoby (research associate DGRU) and Sophie Nakueira (PhD candidate, Centre for Criminology)
Lecture (10.7 mb)
Prof Ian Glen (director, Film & Media Studies) and Dr Collette Schulz Hertzenberg (senior researcher, ISS)
Lecture (11.7 mb)
Discussion
FIFA footprint discussion (10.7 mb)
Prof Thandika Mkandawire - 10 May
Vice-Chancellor's Open Lecture
Running while others walk: the challenge of African development
Full speech (18.1 mb); extract
Profs Pradeep Navsaria and Andrew Nicol - 14 April
UCT Surgical Society lecture series
Life in the Trauma Unit
Prof Navsaria, full speech (7.09 mb); Prof Nicol, full speech (8.7 mb)
Professor Raj Mesthrie - 22 April
Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series
Syntactic Structures: Noam Chomsky and the colourless green revolution in language studies
Full speech (12.6 mb); extract
Prof Brian Raftopoulos - 15 April
Guest speaker at Zimsoc seminar to commemorate Zimbabwe's 30th Independence Day
A look back on the last 30 years of Zimbabwe
Full speech (13.8 mb); extract
William Kentridge - 8 April
Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) Great Text/Big Questions lecture series
Putting the S into Laughter
Full speech (15.8 mb); extract
Prof Rajmohan Gandhi - 23 March
VC Open Lecture, introduced by Dr Max Price
Voyage of dialogue and discovery: peace and security in the 21st century
Full speech (15.9 mb); extract
Prof Jonathan Jansen and VC Dr Max Price - 8 March
Prof Jansen is VC of the University of the Orange Free State
Leadership & the transformation of SA universities
Full speech (14.6 mb)
Dominic Giddy memorial assembly - 22 February
UCT held a memorial assembly and march to protest the levels of violent crime in the surrounding areas.
Full service (13.2 mb)
Prof Jeffrey Jowell - 17 February
Rabinowitz Visitor in the Faculty of Law; introduced by dean, Prof PJ Schwikkard
The rule of law and the power to prosecute
Full speech (19.3 mb); extract
Prof Goolam Vahed - 3 February 2010
Introduced by Prof Rajend Mesthrie, Linguistics section, Dept of English Language & Literature
Indentured Indian workers on the plantations of Natal and beyond: 1860-1911
Full speech (21.1 mb); extract
The Battle for Constitutional Democracy & the Constitutional Court; 18 - 22 January
A series of five lectures facilitated by Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of South Africa with speakers, Advocate Gilbert Marcus, Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke and Michelle le Roux
Dennis Davis
First lecture (16.2mb); First discussion (9.13mb)
Gilbert Marcus
Lecture (15.2mb); Discussion (9.39mb)
Michelle le Roux
Lecture (13.8mb); Discussion (9.12mb)
Dikgang Moseneke
Lecture (17.9mb); Discussion (4.2mb)
Dennis Davis
Final lecture (18.8mb); Final discussion (186kb)
Harald Winkler - 21 January
What happened in Copenhagen & where to next?
Full speech (20.6 mb); extract
