2015 UCT Summer School Programme

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TIME MondaySaturday 1924 January 2015 Course Pg TIME MondayFriday 2630 January 2015 Course Pg
9.15 am Chaucers portrayal of women 1018 (14) 9.15 am When Paris sneezes 1036 (50)
1915: The Great War 1003 (43) Artistic reputations 1052 (12)
Successful painting 1021 (61) Observation is a revelation 1055 (60)
Big data 1039 (38) The Higgs boson (Mon 26Wed 28) 1034 (33)
Road making (Thurs 29Fri 30) 1031 (53)
10.00 am Writing books for children 1051 (64)
11.15 am London in the time of Hogarth 1013 (16) 11.15 am The Putin phenomenon 1030 (52)
The genomic revolution 1037 (32) The past is another country 1056 (21)
Governance and leadership 1006 (42) Women in physics and astronomy 1032 (37)
1.00 pm The arms deal (Mon 19Tues 20) 1008 (39) 1.00 pm In conversation: The right to die with dignity (Mon 26) 1061 (70)
Basic education (Wed 21) 1041 (56) In conversation: Land reform in SA (Tues 27) 1060 (68)
Family secrets (Thurs 22) 1005 (55) In conversation: Democracy & higher education (Thurs 29) 1042 (69)
Collecting African art (Fri 23) 1062 (71) Madojazz celebratory concert (Fri 30) 1063 (72)
Musical promenade through Paris (Sat 24) 1014 (26)
3.00 pm Hogarth and Marriage -la-mode (Sat 24) 1016 (25)
3.30 pm Elizabeth of Bohemia 1010 (40) 3.30 pm Fossils for Africa 1047 (30)
Three 20th century collections (Mon 19Wed 21) 1017 (15) Gustav Klimt and Vienna (18981918) 1053 (18)
Writing Richard Rive (Thurs 22Fri 23) 1023 (23) Three Biblical investigations (Mon 26Wed 28) 1058 (13)
Ethics, rockets & space fight (Mon 19Tues 20) 1012 (29) Wine and vine in art (Thurs 29Fri 30) 1057 (54)
Natural coastal threats (Wed 21Thurs 22) 1009 (27)
4.00 pm At play in Africa (Mon 26Thurs 29) 1059 (67)
5.00 pm Literary translation master class (Tues 20) 1024 (63)
The electronic epistolarium 1015 (65)
5.30 pm Rethinking Mandela 1011 (47) 5.30 pm Eugne Marais and Ingrid Jonker 1049 (19)
Problems in iconic novels 1025 (20) Contemporary South African politics (Mon 26Wed 28) 1044 (51)
Conservation in South Africa 1004 (28) Zimbabwean hyperinfation & dollarisation (Thurs 29Fri 30) 1045 (44)
Paediatric critical care (Mon 26Wed 28) 1043 (34)
Gravitational waves (Thurs 29Fri 30) 1046 (31)
Xhosa (continues until 6 Feb) 1028 (59) Xhosa (continues until 6 Feb) 1028 (59)
6.00 pm Mandarin (continues until 6 Feb) 1027 (58) 6.00 pm Mandarin (continues until 6 Feb) 1027 (58)
Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57) Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57)
Slaves to the rhythm 1019 (66) Creative fction writing 1029 (62)
7.30 pm Labour relations (Mon 19Wed 21) 1007 (46) 7.30 pm The 2008 fnancial crisis 1048 (41)
Italian art c. 1300 (Mon 19Wed 21) 1020 (17) The big questions 1035 (36)
Mistranslations & non-translation (Thurs 22Fri 23) 1022 (48) The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Mon 26Wed 28) 1054 (22)
Palliative care (Mon 19Wed 21) 1002 (35) Oscar Pistorius (Thurs 29Fri 30) 1033 (49)
Gang and police culture (Thurs 22Fri 23) 1040 (45)
8.00 pm A trio of treats (Mon 26Wed 28) 1050 (24)
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CONTENTS
Course index by category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Registration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fee information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
General information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Summer School flm programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Free lecture and concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Summer School courses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Recommended reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Map of UCT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside back cover
Timetable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Inside front cover
Registration forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Centre of brochure
FOR ALL SUMMER SCHOOL ENQUIRIES
Phone: 021 650 2888
Fax: 021 650 2893
Write to: Centre for Open Learning
UCT, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701
Email: ems@uct.ac.za
Website: http://www.summerschool.uct.ac.za
Registration forms can be printed from the website.
SUMMER SCHOOL 2016
Dates for Summer School 2016 are Monday 18 to Friday 29 January
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Course Index by Category
ARTS AND HUMANITIES
Artistic reputations: myth versus reality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Three Biblical detective investigations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chaucers portrayal of women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Three twentieth century art collections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
London life in the time of Hogarth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Italian art c. 1300: Duccio, Pisano, Giotto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Gustav Klimt and Vienna (18981918) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Eugne Marais and Ingrid Jonker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Problems in iconic novels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
The past is another country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Writing Richard Rive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
A trio of treats: classical, romantic and celebratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Lectures
Hogarth and Marriage -la-mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
A musical promenade through Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SCIENCE, CONSERVATION AND MEDICINE
Natural coastal threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Conservation in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Ethics, rockets and spacefight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Fossils for Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
From galaxy mergers to gravitational waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The genomic revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Higgs boson: our understanding of the Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Paediatric critical care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Palliative care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
The big questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Women in physics and astronomy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Big data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY AND CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
The South Africa arms deal and its political consequences . . . . . . . . 39
Elizabeth of Bohemia and her world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Understanding the 2008 fnancial crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Governance and leadership: Africa and South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
1915: The Great War a hundred years on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Zimbabwean hyperinfation and dollarisation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
The interface of gang and police culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Labour relations in post-apartheid South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Rethinking Mandela: an historical appraisal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
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Mistranslation and non-translation in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Oscar Pistorius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Contemporary South African politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Putin phenomenon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
A brief history of roads and road-making in the Western Cape . . . . . 53
Wine and the vine in art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Lectures
Family secrets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Basic education in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
LANGUAGES
Italian for beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Mandarin for beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Xhosa for beginners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
PRACTICAL ART
Observation is a revelation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Five components of successful painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
PRACTICAL WRITING
Creative fction writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Literary translation masterclass: Afrikaans to English . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Writing books for children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
OTHER PRACTICAL
The electronic epistolarium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Slaves to the rhythm, writing songs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
At play in Africa: music and storytelling in Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
IN CONVERSATION
Land reform in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
The future of South Africas democracy and higher education . . . . . . 69
The right to die with dignity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
FREE LECTURE
Collecting African art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
FREE CONCERT
Madojazz celebratory concert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION

HOW TO REGISTER
Please complete the registration form or a photocopy of the form. Use
a separate form for each person enrolling. It is vital to include your
full name, address and telephone numbers and to indicate your method
of payment. Cell phone numbers and email addresses are important so
that we can communicate with you. Please include your student number
(see number on address label on back of brochure). Incomplete forms
will not be processed. If you would like to add a course, please submit
a new form. There are currently no online registration facilities.
WHERE TO REGISTER
All registrations will be processed on a frst-come frst-served basis
from Monday 3 November.
x By mail Post your completed forms, enclosing payment. The most
effcient method of payment is by credit card. Cheques and postal
orders must be made payable to UCT or University of Cape Town
and mailed to: Centre for Open Learning, University of Cape Town,
Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701.
x In person Bring your forms to the Centres offce, Room 3.23,
Level 3, Kramer Building, Cross Campus Road, Middle Campus,
during offce hours.
x By fax Send to 021 650 2893. Faxes are only accepted if the
registration form is completed with payment details for credit cards
or proof of direct deposit payment. The Centre cannot be held
responsible for the non-receipt of faxes.
x By email Email registration form to ems@uct.ac.za.
x By telephone Registration by telephone cannot be accepted.
DIRECT AND EFT DEPOSITS
Direct deposits can be made electronically, or at any Standard Bank
branch.
Name of account: Public and Continuing Education
Type of account: Business Current Account
Account number: 27 065 1608
Branch: Rondebosch
Branch code: 025009
Your reference: Student number (see number on address label)
If you do not have a student number please use your name and surname.
It is essential that your reference is refected on the deposit slip. It is
Registration by post and in person begins on
Monday 3 November 2014.
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necessary to provide proof of payment either by fax to 021 650 2893 or
email to ems@uct.ac.za.
ACCEPTANCE OF REGISTRATION
Once your registration has been processed your registration card will
be mailed to you. The Centre cannot be held responsible for the
non-receipt of posted registration cards. Should you not receive your
registration card, contact our offce two weeks before the commencement
of your course. Please note that we will not post registration cards
after Friday 12 December. Thereafter cards may be collected from the
Summer School offce.
WAITING LISTS
There are no waiting lists except for practical courses. You will be placed
on a waiting list only if a practical course is full. Our staff are not able to
tell you where you are placed on the waiting list and you will be contacted
only if a vacancy occurs. Once a course starts all waiting lists fall away.
Fees paid to secure a place will be refunded to you by 31 March 2015.
CHANGING COURSES
Once you have registered for a course it is not possible to change to
another course of the same duration and cost.
REGISTRATION CARD
Please present your registration card at each lecture.
OFFICE HOURS
Monday to Friday
General offce
3 November23 December 2014 8.30 am4.00 pm
216 January 2015 8.30 am4.00 pm
1930 January 2015 8.30 am1.15 pm
3.006.15 pm
7.007.45 pm
Closed 24 December 2014 from 12 noon
Reopens 2 January 2015
Cash offce
3 November23 December 2014 8.30 am3.30 pm
216 January 2015 8.30 am3.30 pm
1930 January 2015 8.30 am7.45 pm
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FEE INFORMATION
COST OF COURSES
FULL FEE
The full course fee paid by the general public.
STAFF FEES
Full time and retired full time UCT staff and their partners.
Part time UCT staff currently holding an appointment of at least one year.
Full time staff (and their partners) of universities in the Western Cape.
REDUCED FEES
Individuals dependent on an income of less than R96 000 per annum
(R8 000 per month), or members of families whose total income is less
than R144 000 per annum (R12 000 per month).
Registered UCT students Staff members who are doing postgraduate or
other part time studies do not qualify as students.
Full time undergraduate students at universities and schools in
the Western Cape. Staff or others registered for a PhD degree are not
considered students.
TO QUALIFY FOR STAFF OR REDUCED FEES
The staff and reduced fee section on the registration form must be
completed and signed. Failure to complete this section will result in your
registration being processed at the full course fee.
Staff and reduced fee places on practical and language courses are
limited.
PAYING BY CHEQUE OR CREDIT CARD
Cheques must be made payable to UCT or University of Cape Town
only. They may not be altered or endorsed. Reference: Ref: Student
number SS15 or Summer School 2015 must be written on the back of
your cheque. Post dated cheques are not accepted.
Credit card payments can only be processed if all relevant felds are
completed. The CVC number (the last three digits printed on the reverse
of the credit card) must be flled in on your registration form. The CVC
number will not be accepted over the telephone.
The bank charges an administrative fee of R150,00 for cheque payments
that are not honoured. No registrations can be made until this fee is paid.
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CASUAL ATTENDANCE AT INDIVIDUAL LECTURES
Casual attendance is possible at lectures that are not fully booked.
Tickets for casual attendance will be sold at the cash offce on Level 3,
Kramer Building, but may only be purchased by cash and credit card on
the day of the lecture. Please enquire at the offce.
Tickets for casual attendance at lectures that are fully booked for
which participants have not arrived will be sold at the door of the lecture
theatre fve minutes before a course begins at the discretion of the
Director.
Staff and students, on production of their staff or student cards, may
obtain a reduction for single or double lectures and at the Baxter theatre.
If you qualify for the reduced fee (see page 6) this will be recorded on
your registration card.
Fees for casual attendance: R90,00 or R50,00 for staff and students for
lectures; R150,00 or R110,00 for the Baxter lecture-performance; and
R180,00 or R95,00 for double lectures.
CANCELLATIONS AND REFUNDS
Cheque payments will be processed to cover the courses for which
you have registered even if you may not be accepted for the courses
you selected. Refunds for unsuccessful registrations must be done
electronically as cash refunds can no longer be given.
No refunds can be given if you simply change your mind about attending
a course. Full refunds are given only if the Centre cancels the course or in
cases of illness, accident or emergency. We require a doctors certifcate
if you withdraw for medical reasons.
Credit card refunds will refect as a credit on your account. Cheque
or cash payments will be refunded electronically by 31 March 2015.
Please note that no refunds will be processed without the relevant
documentation.
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GENERAL INFORMATION
LECTURE VENUES
Lectures are held in the Kramer Building, Cross Campus Road, Middle
Campus, unless otherwise indicated. The fnal venues will be listed on
noticeboards in the Kramer Building from 16 January 2015.
DIRECTIONS
Please see map on inside back cover.
PARKING
Parking is available on Middle Campus in P1, P4, the new Economics
Building parking area and in the Bremner Building parking area. Please
do not park on verges, pavements or in loading or no-parking zones as
the university traffc offcers will ticket you.
DISABLED PARKING
Disabled parking zones are in Cross Campus Road only. To gain access,
please present your Summer School registration card and Summer
School parking disk. Wheelchair access is on Level 4.
Walking disabled students should enquire about parking when register-
ing and obtain and clearly display a Summer School disk. To use this
facility you are required to complete an application form and submit a
recent medical certifcate from a medical doctor stating that you are
able to drive but cannot walk long distances. Only a limited number of
Summer School disabled parking disks are available; these are issued
on a frst-come frst-served basis only for students genuinely in need of
disabled parking disks.
Students who use municipal parking disks must inform the Summer
School offce in writing as they also need an additional Summer School
parking disk.
SHUTTLE SERVICE
The nearest stop to the Kramer Building for the Jammie Shuttle service
is at the Bremner Building. For information about timetables and routes
contact Jammie Shuttle directly at 021 685 7135 as the service is limited
during the university vacation.
ACCESSIBILITY OF BUILDINGS
University buildings are generally accessible to disabled students. Nearly
all our venues are wheelchair accessible. Wheelchair accessible toilets
are on Level 4 of the building. There is lift access to all levels of the
Kramer Building. Please contact us to discuss the easiest access route.
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SECURITY
Thefts occasionally occur from cars and from unattended bags. Please
lock vehicles securely and keep your possessions with you. Parking
areas are regularly patrolled by campus security offcers. If you lose
something, contact Campus Protection Services on Levels 2 and 4.
Telephone: 021 650 2121.
SMOKING, CELL PHONES & AIR CONDITIONING
Please note that smoking is not allowed indoors on UCT campus.
Please turn off cell phones before entering the lecture venues. The air
conditioning in the lecture theatres unfortunately cannot be internally
adjusted and is sometimes quite cool; please bring warm clothing with
you.
LENGTH AND TIMES OF LECTURES
Unless otherwise specifed lectures are about 60 minutes in length,
including questions from the audience.
RESERVATION OF SEATS
Please do not hold seats for other participants. If you have not taken up
your seat fve minutes before the lecture begins, your seat may be sold.
RECORDING OF LECTURES
Please obtain the lecturers permission before recording lectures.
BOOKS AND HANDOUTS
Lecturers are asked to recommend readings available locally but we
cannot guarantee this. Handouts may be given free or sold at cost.
UCT LIBRARY
Summer School students may use the reading facilities in the Chancellor
Oppenheimer Library on Upper Campus. Please show your Summer
School registration card and sign the visitors register at the reception
desk. Where possible, recommended books and journals will be made
available and may be on display. However, it is not permissible to take
material out of the library.
Photocopies may be made by using a card purchased for R25,00 from
the Loans Desk in the library.
The Brand van Zyl Law Library in the Kramer Building is a specialist
library used by postgraduate law students, particularly in January, and is
not accessible to Summer School students.
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CHILDCARE FACILITIES
UCTs Educare Centre on Upper Campus provides childcare for children
from three months to fve years of age. Contact Marilyn Petersen at
021 650 3522 for further information.
REFRESHMENTS
The Kramer Cafeteria offers teas, snacks and lunches from 7.30 am to
8.00 pm (Mondays to Fridays). A small evening menu will be available
from 5.30 to 8.00 pm.
Revelations, situated in the new Economics Building, Middle Campus,
offers delicious, healthy and original food from 7.30 am to 4.30 pm
(Mondays to Fridays).
UCT Club, Sports Centre, Upper Campus, is fully licensed and open for
meals from 12 noon to 2.30 pm and from 5.00 to 8.00 pm (Mondays to
Fridays).
RESIDENCE ACCOMMODATION
Contact UCT Vacation Offce directly at telephone 021 650 1050, fax
021 685 2629 or email vac-accom@uct.ac.za, indicating that you are
a Summer School student. The Summer School offce cannot provide
information on university accommodation.
RECEIVING THE BROCHURE
There is no charge for joining or for corrections to the mailing list. Please
notify us should your address or contact details change.
All Summer School information is available on our website:
http://www.summerschool.uct.ac.za.
Students who live overseas are charged R30,00 for postage.
Extra brochures may be obtained from the Summer School offce at a
cost of R5,00.
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SUMMER SCHOOL FILM PROGRAMME
This is a free flm programme designed around courses. On
account of time and venue constraints popular screenings
cannot always be repeated, nor can clashes with courses and
lectures be avoided. Requests for repeats may be handed in at
the Summer School offce, addressed to the Summer School
Film coordinator.
Information about the programme, times and venues will
be displayed on noticeboards in the Kramer Building during
Summer School. Please check the noticeboards regularly
during Summer School for information about changes, repeats
or additions.
Latecomers will not be admitted after the frst fve minutes of
the start of flm screenings.
FREE LECTURE AND CONCERT
Summer School participants are invited to a free lecture on
Friday 23 January at 1.00 pm and to a free concert on Friday
30 January at 1.00 pm to celebrate the sixty-ffth anniversary
of the Summer School programme. See pages 71 and 72 for
details.
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1052 ARTISTIC REPUTATIONS:
MYTH VERSUS REALITY
Ian Aaronson, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Medical University of
South Carolina, Charleston, USA
Many artists conjure up in the popular mind a romanticised image,
sometimes fostered by the artists themselves to further their careers,
which has little semblance to reality. This course will examine fve
major artists and the work they produced, drawing on their letters and
contemporary accounts in order to discover their true personalities and
to provide a full appreciation of their artistic achievements.
For many centuries Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggios reputation
as an unsavoury brawler eclipsed his unique contribution to Baroque art.
Edgar Degas, much loved for his paintings of ballet dancers, introduced
a new way of seeing and capturing the moment to the West. Paul
Gauguins larger-than-life personality and his revolutionary art which
inspired surrealist painters of the twentieth century belies the myth of
the staid stockbroker who abandoned all for an idyllic life on a Pacifc
island.
Perhaps the most mythologised is Toulouse-Lautrec. Rather than a
sad dwarf who found solace in the brothels of Montmartre, this lecture
will discuss a lifelong aristocrat who knew exactly what he wanted to
achieve with his art.
L.S. Lowry, scarcely known outside his native Britain, was not a nave
folk painter but a faithful record-keeper of the working mans daily grind
in the industrial north of England.
Each illustrated lecture will convey the texture of the artists life,
placing him in his social and political context and indicating the unique
contribution he made to the development of Western art.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Caravaggio: Life on the wild side
2. Degas: A painter of pretty ballerinas
3. Gauguin: Paradise found
4. Toulouse-Lautrec: A low life
5. L.S. Lowry: A lot of little matchstick men
2630 January 9.15 am
COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00
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1058 WHY DID THEY DO IT?
THREE BIBLICAL DETECTIVE INVESTIGATIONS
Dr Azila Reisenberger, Head of Hebrew, School of Languages and
Literatures, University of Cape Town
There are multiple ways to read the Bible, ranging from straightforwardly
accepting the text as Holy Scripture the Word of God to the more
unusual, such as scanning the narratives for medical records.
This three-lecture course takes the Biblical narrative as a true
refection and existential record of once-living people, analysing the
actions of Biblical characters as if they were relatives or friends.
Three characters will be studied in detail: Naomi, the mother-in-law
of Ruth, King David and Jacobs frst-born son, Reuben. Each of these
individuals behave uncharacteristically at a certain stage of their lives.
Numerous Biblical commentators throughout the ages have tried to
explain the motivation of these uncharacteristic acts. In the manner of
a detective working from written evidence, the course will trace the life
story of each character in order to suggest a motive for his or her errant
behaviour.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Naomi
2. King David
3. Reuben
Monday 26Wednesday 28 January 3.30 pm
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1018 WHAT WOMEN WANT:
CHAUCERS PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN
Dr Elizabeth Baldwin, independent scholar
The Scottish Chaucerian, Gavin Douglas, described Chaucer in 1513 as
evir (God wait) all womanis frend. Is this true? Chaucer certainly created
a number of memorable female characters. This fve-lecture course will
look at a selection of them. The focus will be on the way in which literary
context and genre shape the portrayal of women, and how Chaucers
women work within or against that tradition. The course will begin with
a contemplation of women as objects, whether for courtly adoration or
simply sex, in romance The Knights Tale and fabliau The Millers
Tale. The important social identity of wife, and the expectations placed
on women in that role will be dealt with in a discussion of the ideal
wife The Clerks Tale and the rebellious one The Wife of Baths
Prologue. This section will consider particularly what Chaucer is doing
with and to his sources and related misogynistic writings. Chaucers
answer to the question of what women really want and his assessment
of the consequences that might follow if womens desires were taken
seriously will be explored in relation to The Wife of Baths Tale and The
Franklins Tale. Finally, the course will discuss the complex character of
Chaucers great tragic heroine, Criseyde.
No specifc background in Middle English is required.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Women as prizes: The Knights Tale and The Millers Tale
2. Good wives: The Clerks Tale
3. And maybe not so good: The Wife of Baths Prologue
4. What women want (and do they know?): The Wife of Baths Tale
and The Franklins Tale
5. Chaucers tragic heroine: Troilus and Criseyde
Recommended reading
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (any edition) and Troilus and
Criseyde (any edition). Those who wish to use a translation will probably
fnd Neville Coghills translation of The Canterbury Tales and George
Krapps Troilus and Cressida the most easily available. There are also,
of course, a number of online versions.
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1017 COLLECTORS AND COLLECTING:
THREE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ART COLLECTIONS
Hilary Hope Guise, artist and art historian
There is something heroic about the collector who spurns convention,
ignores the constricting advice of sensible people, turns his or her back
on the taste of the day and goes after particular works of art, regardless
of cost or controversy.
This three-lecture course will examine three of the worlds greatest
collections, assembled not by committees, but by individuals, and not in
the distant past but in the twentieth century.
The Courtauld Collection is made up of works bought by three
main collectors Samuel Courtauld, Count Antoine Seilern and
Thomas Gambier Parry. The collection houses some of the fnest early
Netherlandish and Italian small altarpieces in Europe, and also a famous
collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works bought by
Samuel Courtauld that includes iconic works such as Renoirs La Loge,
Manets A Bar at the Folies-Bergre, Czannes Mont Sainte-Victoire,
Gauguins The Dream and Van Goghs Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear.
Paul Mellons collection represents a comprehensive picture of British
culture, from Elizabethan miniatures to eighteenth- and nineteenth-
century English landscapes and portraiture.
Lionel Phillips and his wife set out to break down the limitations of
period and style. The Phillips collection thus challenges us to look at
Goya with El Greco, Czanne with Chardin and Daumier with Degas. The
Phillips collection opened its doors to the public in 1921, eighteen years
before the Museum of Modern Art, and is therefore the earliest modern
art museum in the United States.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The Courtauld collection: challenging convention
2. The Paul Mellon Foundation: a passion for British art
3. The Phillips collection: the frst modern art museum
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1013 LONDON LIFE IN THE TIME OF HOGARTH
Edward Saunders, freelance lecturer
This course is condensed in course 1016 Hogarth and Marriage -la-
Mode. Please note that you may not register for both courses.
William Hogarth (16971764) spent his entire life in London participating
in one of the most productive eras in the citys history. Henry Fielding,
David Garrick, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson and the young Sir
Joshua Reynolds are among the infuential people who lived and worked
in London in this period. It was a vibrant but bawdy time, epitomised
by the modern moral subjects which made Hogarths name. Hogarths
satirical series, A Harlots Progress, A Rakes Progress and Marriage
-la-Mode, will be the starting point for this fve-lecture course on
London in the frst sixty years of the eighteenth century. The lectures will
cover Covent Gardens brothels and theatres, the West Ends chocolate
and coffee houses, the degradation of the prisons and mental asylums,
the entertainments provided by Vauxhall and Ranelagh Gardens and
the development of St James and Mayfair. In addition, the course will
introduce the characters of the period, ranging from James Figg, who
established the sport of boxing, to Huguenot silversmith Paul de Lamerie,
to Jack Sheppard the popular criminal. Finally, Hogarths role as the frst
governor of The Foundling Hospital will be discussed.
LECTURE TITLES
1. William Hogarth, Covent Garden, Leicester Square
2. A Harlots Progress
3. A Rakes Progress
4. Marriage -la-Mode
5. The Foundling Hospital
Recommended reading
See page 74 in this brochure.
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1020 ITALIAN ART c. 1300: DUCCIO, PISANO, GIOTTO
Emeritus Professor Michael Godby, Michaelis School of Fine Art,
University of Cape Town
Around 1300 in central Italy, three of the greatest artists of all time
emerged: Duccio, Giovanni Pisano and Giotto. This three-lecture
course will examine the major works of these three artists in terms of
both religious content and stylistic innovation. It will be shown that, in
different ways, and using different media, all these artists introduced
a fundamentally new understanding of human capacity and potential.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Duccios Maest and other works
2. Pisanos Pistoia pulpit and other works
3. Giottos Arena Chapel and other works
Recommended reading
Cole, B. 1987. Italian Art 12501550: the Relation of Renaissance Art
to Life and Society. New York: Harper & Row.
Norman, D. 1997. Siena, Florence and Padua: Art, Society and
Religion. UK Open University.
White, J. 1993. Art and Architecture in Italy, 12501400. New Haven:
Yale University Press.
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1053 GUSTAV KLIMT AND VIENNA (18981918)
Dr Sabine Wieber, lecturer, History of Art, University of Glasgow
This course uses the art of Gustav Klimt as a point of entry into Viennas
rich cultural landscape during the Habsburg Empire. This period
witnessed advances across all aspects of life, but was also marked by
intense economic, political and religious change that fostered a sense of
anxiety and uncertainty in Klimt and his contemporaries. These tensions
provided fertile ground for the emergence of an artistic avant-garde that
continues to be celebrated under the umbrella term Vienna 1900. With
the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, however,
these exhilarating years came to an end.
The course will begin with an exploration of Viennas Ringstrasse
in relation to Klimts early career. Klimts role as the Secessions
frst president and Viennas most sought-after portrait painter will be
examined against the backdrop of Vienna 1900. His society portraits
will be seen to be in dialogue with the design initiatives of the Viennese
Workshops. Klimt and a number of Viennas frst-generation avant-
garde artists died during the First World War: the course will conclude
by looking at death masks, deathbed portraiture and other memorabilia
as potent material traces of the traumatic caesura of what Stefan Zweig
described as The World of Yesterday.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Viennas Ringstrasse and the artists company
2. The Secession and Klimts society portraits
3. Klimt, the Viennese Workshops and the modern interior
4. Sarajevo and the end of an era
5. Viennas culture of death
Recommended reading
Nret, G. 2000. Gustav Klimt, New York: Taschen.
Partsch, S. 1994. Klimt: Painter of Women, Munich, New York: Prestel.
Vergo, P. 2001. Art in Vienna, 18981918. London: Phaidon.
Zweig, S. 1942. The World of Yesterday. (Any edition)
2630 January 3.30 pm
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1049 THE AFTERLIVES OF POETS:
EUGNE MARAIS AND INGRID JONKER
Associate Professor Lesley Marx, Centre for Film and Media Studies,
The death of poets sends a dark tone ringing out over the world. So wrote
Jack Cope in his homage to Ingrid Jonker after her death by drowning ffty
years ago. Three decades earlier, Eugne Marais used a shotgun to put
an end to his suffering. In both cases the tone that rings through the
years since their deaths has grown in volume, shading and complexity.
The compelling and conficting stories of their lives have taken shape
in novels, poems, biographies, recorded memories, stage plays and
flms. This course will explore the fascinating and frustrating lives of
two of South Africas fnest poets, and the ways in which succeeding
generations have told their stories and forged their myths.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Introduction: when poets die
2. Eugne Marais: from dandy to Diep Rivier
3. The haunting of Eugne Marais in flm and theatre: from Ross
Devenish to Reza de Wet
4. Ingrid Jonker: from Kabouterliefde to Donker Stroom
5. The haunting of Ingrid Jonker in fction, flm and theatre: from Jack
Cope to Jana Cilliers
Recommended reading
Metelerkamp, P. 2012. Ingrid Jonker: A Poets Life. Hermanus: Hemel &
See.
Rousseau, L. 1982. The Dark Stream: The Story of Eugne N. Marais.
Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
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1025 LITERARY PUZZLEMENTS:
PROBLEMS IN ICONIC NOVELS
Emeritus Professor Stephen M. Finn, Department of English,
University of Pretoria
Classic novels often leave the reader with a feeling of incompleteness,
of a mystery left unsolved: Why is there only one footprint in Robinson
Crusoe? Is Jane Eyre around the twist, or is that just Rochester? Do
Dorothea and Casaubon consummate their marriage? How is it possible
for the portrait of Dorian Gray to change? Who is really wicked in Les
Misrables? Why must Fagin be hanged? Is Ahab in Moby Dick gay? Is
Daniel Deronda circumcised, or did George Eliot foul up here?
The social and personal context of all these novels will be taken into
account, often giving a new interpretation of iconic works. Sometimes
the mystery will be seen to emanate from authorial brilliance, at other
times the opposite conclusion may be drawn.
It is not essential to have read the texts.
LECTURE TITLES
1. A hotchpotch of puzzles: Robinson Crusoe, A Tale of Two Cities,
Alice in Wonderland, Agatha Christie, Dan Brown
2. Marriage la morte: Middlemarch and Jane Eyre
3. Brothers in blood and monstrosity: Frankenstein, Dracula, The
Picture of Dorian Gray
4. Wonderful, weak or wicked? Tess of the dUrbervilles, Les
Misrables, The Mayor of Casterbridge
5. Well hanged and well-hung: the Jewish problem in Oliver Twist and
Daniel Deronda
Recommended reading
Sutherland, J. 2001. The Literary Detective: 100 Puzzles in Classic
Fiction. Oxford Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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1056 THE PAST IS ANOTHER COUNTRY
Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson, biographer, publisher, lecturer, Birbeck
College, University of London
All novels by their very nature deal with the past. Reconstruction or
memory is part of the writing process. But some novelists focus more
closely on the past and for a variety of reasons, as this fve-lecture
course will show.
Virginia Woolf uses past trauma in Mrs Dalloway to account for
the present, as well as to help shape both character and plot. F. Scott
Fitzgerald introduces past events in The Great Gatsby not only to make
sense of the present but to develop a recurring theme in his work, the
gulf between the rich and the poor.
For W.G. Sebald in The Rings of Saturn, a novel which explores such
diverse subjects as the Holocaust and the mass bombing of German
cities in the Second World War, the life of Joseph Conrad, the history of
China, the silk industry and the loss of thousands of trees in twentieth
century England, the past fgures as often more real than the present.
A.S. Byatt, by setting Possession in two different centuries, is able
to present parallel lives and their possible connections, and to explore
differences between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in both
literary and sociological terms.
In Wolf Hall, Booker prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel turns to the
past to reinterpret history and to give alternative readings of character.
In all these novels the past is indeed another country.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Mrs Dalloway: the past and trauma
2. The Great Gatsby: mixing memory and desire
3. The Rings of Saturn: the mysterious community of the living and
the dead
4. Possession: parallel lives
5. Wolf Hall: reinterpreting history alternative readings of character
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1054 THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD:
VICTORIAN MISCHIEF
Dr Rosalind Malandrinos, part-time lecturer, Michaelis School of Fine
Art, University of Cape Town
Criticised in their own time for the decadence of their feshly style, and
dismissed in modern times as mere Victorian sentimentalists, the Pre-
Raphaelites deserve a respectful re-visiting.
This three-lecture course will begin with an introduction to the Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood and an explanation of how and why they were
so innovative. The early work of John Everett Millais, William Holman
Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti will be discussed. The second lecture
will focus on Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his unique style of painting and
the two very signifcant women who inspired him. The fnal lecture will
explore how Rossettis relationship with Jane Morris helped to establish
a sensually aesthetic style of painting women, so infuential that the
term Pre-Raphaelite beauty has entered the lexicon.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Experiments and desires
2. Medieval fair lady vs. modern urban woman
3. The cult of beauty
Recommended reading
Hilton, T. 1985. The Pre-Raphaelites. London: World of Art.
Marsh, J. 1999. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Painter and Poet. London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Marsh, J. 1985. The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood. New York: St Martins
Press.
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1023 WRITING RICHARD RIVE
Professor Shaun Viljoen, University of Stellenbosch
This two-lecture course will focus on the life and work of Cape Town
writer Richard Rive.
The frst lecture will look at how Rive is remembered twenty-fve years
after his death, and at how his life is rendered in Richard Rive: A Partial
Biography. Are there ways he should or should not be remembered?
The second lecture will focus on rethinking received readings of Rives
fction and non-fction, in particular his best-selling novel, Buckingham
Palace, District Six and his memoir Writing Black, recently reissued
by New Africa Books. Are these texts read any differently today from
the way they were read when they frst emerged? Which works have
survived, which have been forgotten?
LECTURE TITLES
1. Remembering Richard: writing Richard Rives life
2. Rereading Richard Rives fction and non-fction
Recommended reading
Rive, R. 1986. Buckingham Palace, District Six. Cape Town: David
Philip. (Or later edition)
Rive, R. 1981. Writing Black. Cape Town: David Philip. (Or later edition)
Viljoen, S. 2014. Richard Rive: A Partial Biography. Johannesburg: Wits
University Press.
Thursday 22Friday 23 January 3.30 pm
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1050 A TRIO OF TREATS:
CLASSICAL, ROMANTIC AND CELEBRATORY
Dr Barry Smith, organist, conductor, musicologist and
Rodney Trudgeon, broadcaster, Fine Music Radio
On three successive evenings, this programme, marking the sixty-
ffth anniversary of Summer School, will cover a range of music from
symphony to song, from the familiar to the less well-known. It will feature
local and international artists and will include in-depth commentary
from the presenters.
The frst evening will be devoted to classical music, with an emphasis
on works by Haydn and Mozart. The next evening will focus on the
Romantic period. In addition to works by Beethoven and Schubert, this
evenings programme will include a performance of the sublime Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor by the Amici Quartet.
In keeping with the celebratory spirit of this Summer School, the
programme for the fnal evening will be heralded by Handels Zadok the
Priest, contain a number of joyful works, and conclude with Haydns
triumphal Nelson Mass.
Please note that the third session ends at 10.00 pm.
LECTURE-PERFORMANCES
1. Highlights of Haydn and the magic of Mozart
2. Revisiting the Romantics
3. Ending on a high note
Monday 26Wednesday 28 January 8.0009.30 pm
VENUE Baxter Concert Hall, Rondebosch
COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff and Reduced: R320,00
Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R150,00; staff &
reduced (on production of cards): R110,00.
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1016 HOGARTH AND MARRIAGE -LA-MODE
Edward Saunders, freelance lecturer
This lecture condenses course 1013 London life in the time of Hogarth.
Please note that you may not register for both courses.
This double lecture will discuss the career of eighteenth-century artist
and satirist William Hogarth (16951764), and describe the London
of his time. It will then consider in detail his most famous modern
moral subject, Marriage -la-Mode, which tells the age-old story of
title marrying wealth. This was the third series of paintings in which
Hogarth sought to establish modern urban life, including low life, as an
appropriate subject for high art.
Hogarth came from modest origins and had the indignity, when
a young boy, of seeing his father imprisoned for debt in Fleet Prison.
He therefore experienced eighteenth-century London life in the raw, a
factor which not only contributed to his determination to succeed in his
chosen feld of art, but provided him with insights into the reprobates
he portrays.
Today many of the contemporary references have been lost but
we can still recognise in Hogarths engravings a host of famous, and
infamous, London characters. In creating a story out of known people
in contemporary settings, Hogarth will be seen to have invented a new
art form.
Saturday 24 January 3.005.00 pm
LECTURE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00
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1014 A MUSICAL PROMENADE THROUGH PARIS:
MOZART TO MONTAND, PUCCINI TO PIAF
Desmond Colborne, freelance lecturer
The city of Paris has, throughout the centuries, inspired much music,
ranging from classical to popular, from ethereal to ooh-l-l.
This double lecture will criss-cross between sights and sounds,
visiting all the iconic Parisian places celebrated in song boulevards,
cabarets, cafs, restaurants and the river Seine. The role of music in
Parisian life will be highlighted in the works of artists such as Manet,
Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Matisse.
Composers from elsewhere, like Mozart, Liszt, Verdi, Chopin,
Offenbach, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, also spent time in Paris
and expressed its spirit. Extracts from their music and from songs by
musical stars like Edith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Maurice Chevalier and
Yves Montand will be played by way of illustration.
This lecture will be a sight-and-sound saunter, evoking, in the words
of Charles Trenets song, La romance de Paris.
Saturday 24 January 1.003.00 pm
LECTURE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00
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1009 NATURAL COASTAL THREATS ALONG THE SOUTH
AFRICAN COASTLINE
Dylan Blake, senior geologist, Umvoto Africa
This two-lecture course will provide an overview of the potential natural
coastal threats that could occur along the South African coastline. The
focus will be specifcally on the Western Cape. The course will give an
explanation of potential threats such as coastal erosion, extreme sea
level events like storm surges, dune migration, tsunamis, sea-level-rise
induced erosion and inundation as well as groundwater contamination
from saline intrusion. The lectures will provide an overview of risk
assessment methodologies. They will also discuss possible mitigation
methodologies.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Sea level change and meteoric coastal threats
2. Tsunami risk
Wednesday 21Thursday 22 January 3.30 pm
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1004 CONSERVATION IN SOUTH AFRICA:
THE WAY FORWARD
Coordinated by Bronwyn Laing, researcher, Project Rhino
Africa is facing a massive wildlife crisis. South Africa is one of the top
fve fastest growing tourism destinations in the world, in part because
of its wildlife, and the Big Five in particular. Despite this, four of the
Big Five are facing poaching at levels not seen before. Three rhinos
are killed every day in South Africa and an elephant is lost to poachers
every twenty minutes. This course will highlight the truth behind these
fgures and what is being done to stop the slaughter. Participants will
gain a deeper understanding of the demand for these animals and the
syndicates running the trade in animal parts.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Lions: at the crossroads of commerce, confict and conservation
Dr N. Midlane Researcher, Kafue Lion Project
2. Leopards: caught in a conservation blindspot
Dr G. Balme Director, Panthera Leopard Programme
3. Rhinos and elephants: will conservation triage be the only option for
their future in the wild?
Dr J. Hanks Independent environmental consultant
4. Not for the faint-hearted: Operation Lock and the scourge of rhino
poaching Dr J. Hanks Independent environmental consultant
5. Panel discussion
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1012 ETHICS, ROCKETS AND SPACEFLIGHT
Keith Gottschalk, Department of Political Studies, University of the
Western Cape
This two-lecture course will address the ethics involved in rockets and
spacecraft. For nine hundred years military engineers thought that
they had no ethical problems as rockets were used solely as weapons,
or for entertainment in the form of freworks. For the frst time in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century rockets were proposed for
spacefight and attracted civilian proponents.
The frst lecture will focus on the military funding agencies, which
built rockets for use as a mode of bombardment. It will look at the origins
of space fight, which lay in the Third Reich, the Soviet Union and the
Cold War.
Throughout the course consideration will be given to ethics, which
includes the debate amongst historians about the extent to which
rocket engineers were inculpated and tainted by their weapons of mass
destruction.
The second lecture will introduce current ethics debates in
space fight. Questions have been raised concerning space probes
inadvertently causing biological contamination of other planets, or Earth.
The possibility of contact with extra-terrestrial civilisation also raises
new ethical questions in astronautics.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Rockets and ethics: 19321990
2. Spacefight and ethics: 1971the present
Recommended reading
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun
http://www.astronautix.com/poems/plahfre.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_cultural_impact_of_
extraterrestrial_contact
Monday 19Tuesday 20 January 3.30 pm
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1047 FOSSILS FOR AFRICA
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Department of Biological
Sciences, University of Cape Town
This fve-lecture course explores the rich fossil record of Africa and
how it informs people about the history of life on Earth. Using the fossil
record, these lectures will explore the earliest traces of life on Earth, and
show how life became increasingly more complex. The frst lecture will
examine the signifcance of the fossil record and consider the different
kinds of fossils, and look at how bones change over time. The second
lecture will discuss the evolutionary history of plants and show how
plants adapted to land environments. The next lecture will focus on the
movement of animals from water to land environments and the kind of
changes that were needed to enable this transition. The fourth lecture
will explore how reptiles radiated to give rise to pterosaurs, crocodiles,
dinosaurs including birds and to mammals. The fnal lecture will take
a closer look at the diversity of South Africas world famous mammal-
like reptiles and at how they gave rise to mammals. This lecture will also
discuss the subsequent diversifcation of mammals and the diversity of
early humans.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The fossil record Prof A. Chinsamy-Turan
2. Earths greening Prof M. Muasya
3. Animals move onto land Prof A. Chinsamy-Turan
4. Radiation of reptiles Prof A. Chinsamy-Turan
5. From mammal-like reptiles to mammals Prof A. Chinsamy-Turan
Recommended reading
Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2014. Fossils for Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2008. Famous Dinosaurs of Africa. Cape Town:
Struik.
Chinsamy-Turan, A. 2013. (ed.). Forerunners of Mammals: Radiology,
Histology and Biology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Dawkins, R. 2005. The Ancestors Tale. New York: Houghton Miffin.
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1046 FROM GALAXY MERGERS TO GRAVITATIONAL
WAVES: HOW BLACK HOLES CAN SHAKE SPACE-TIME
Dr Roger Deane, Square Kilometre Array (SKA) postdoctoral fellow,
Black holes are regions of space-time so dense that nothing, not even
light, can escape. These objects create large distortions in the fabric of
space-time and are frequently associated with relativistic jets.
This two-lecture course will describe how closely orbiting super-
massive black hole systems are a natural expectation based on current
cosmological understanding of how galaxies form and evolve. They have
long been predicted to have an important impact on their host galaxies
and to generate detectable gravitational waves, which are ripples in
the fabric of space-time. Despite their signifcance, closely orbiting
black holes remain somewhat elusive after extensive searches with a
multitude of telescopes. These lectures will discuss how this feld will be
advanced by the future African VLBI Network, MeerKAT and the SKA, and
how this in turn will contribute to the direct detection and understanding
of the low-frequency gravitational wave signal.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Supermassive black holes: an observational primer
2. Gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
Recommended reading
Gustavo, E.R. 2008. Introduction to black holes.
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.6698
Hughes, S.A. 2003. Listening to the Universe with gravitational-wave
astronomy. Annals of Physics, 303 (2003) pp. 142178. http://
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491602000258
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1037 THE GENOMIC REVOLUTION: WHERE HAVE WE
COME FROM; WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Coordinated by Professor Raj S. Ramesar, Head, Division of Human
Genetics, University of Cape Town
The understanding of genetics and human heredity has always
fascinated human beings. Where did humanity originate? How were
we able to diversify into this rainbow species, and populate the vast
distances of this planet? This fve-lecture course will provide an
introduction to the world of genetics and how it is used in the study
of human history, human health and forensic science. The course will
address some of the concerns with regard to the use of technologies
associated with genomics, for example genetically modifed organisms
in food production, as well as the new generation of technologies that are
emerging from genetics, and which are deployed therapeutically.
Participants are encouraged to view the video at: https://www.
youtube.com/watch?v=5EG0aqchiyA
LECTURE TITLES
1. Setting the scene: the use of DNA in human and other studies
Prof R. Ramesar, Division of Human Genetics
2. Human origins and diversity as written in our DNA
Prof A. Morris, Department of Human Biology
3. Evolution and design: what might we learn
Dr K. Fieggen, Division of Acute General Medicine
4. Medical advances in the era of genomics
Assoc Prof A. Wonkam, Department of Clinical
Laboratory Sciences
5. DNA, its use in forensics and ethical controversies
Dr S. Maistry, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
and V. Lynch, DNA Project
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1034 CORNERSTONES OF PHYSICAL REALITY:
HOW DOES THE HIGGS BOSON SHAPE OUR
UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE?
Dr Andrew Hamilton, Department of Physics, University of Cape Town
What are you made of? How do you interact with the world around you?
What does the Higgs boson have to do with any of this? The fundamental
answers to most aspects of our physical reality are written in the Standard
Model of particle physics. This three-lecture course will introduce the
cornerstones of modern physics that have led to the understanding of
the Standard Model. Beginning with the particle physics view of matter
and force, these lectures will explore the importance of the recently
discovered Higgs boson.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Introducing the Standard Model
2. The physical reality of our building blocks
3. Path to discovery: experimental evidence of the Standard Model
Recommended reading
Feynman, R. 1965. The Character of Physical Law. London: BBC.
Griffths, D. 2008. Introduction to Elementary Particles. Weinhem:
Wiley.
Monday 26Wednesday 28 January 9.15 am
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1043 PAEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE
Professor Andrew Argent, Medical Director PICU, Red Cross War
Memorial Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor Brenda Morrow,
Division of Paediatric Medicine, University of Cape Town
The paediatric intensive care unit of any hospital is sacred in the sense
that it is a place of profound experience for many people. The very reason
for its existence is to deal with life and death situations and to provide
holistic care to the critically ill child and to the childs family.
This three-lecture course will provide an introduction to the history
and evolution of paediatric intensive care in South Africa, and in the rest
of the world. There are only twenty-two beds available in the intensive
care unit of the Red Cross War Memorial Childrens Hospital. The course
will discuss how doctors and nurses make daily decisions about who
gets access to this specialised care. It will also look at the importance
of the research medical practitioners have to do in order to ensure
continued better treatment for their patients. Finally, ethical questions
around getting informed consent from the parents of critically ill children,
many of whom describe themselves as being in a state of panic, will
be explored.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Paediatric critical care: working on sacred ground Prof A. Argent
2. Resource allocation for the critically ill Prof A. Argent
3. Medical research and the critically ill child Assoc Prof B. Morrow
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1002 PALLIATIVE CARE
Dr Alan Barnard, family doctor, palliative care physician, senior
lecturer, Division of Family Medicine, University of Cape Town
According to the World Health Organizations defnition, palliative care
is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their
families facing problems associated with life-threatening illness, through
the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identifcation and
impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems
physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
This three-lecture course will expand on the World Health Organization
defnition of palliative care. A distinction will be drawn between pain
and suffering, including the concept of total pain, as described by
Dame Cecily Saunders. Some of the challenges facing those with
life-threatening illnesses and their family members, as well as their
professional caregivers, will be highlighted. The idea of identity will be
highlighted as an essential element in the maintenance of dignity and
hope. Empathy and kindness will be seen as playing a key role in holding
the patient and family in their uncertainty.
LECTURE TITLES
1. What is palliative care?
2. The challenges of life-threatening illness
3. Dignity and hope at the end of life
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1035 THE BIG QUESTIONS: HOW FAR DO THEY TAKE
US IN UNDERSTANDING ASPECTS OF REALITY?
Professor Anwar Mall, Division of General Surgery, UCT
At some point in our lives we are confronted with the big questions
of existence, such as the one Jim Holt has gone to such great lengths
to explore in his book Why is There Something Rather than Nothing
at All? Why Does the World Exist? Holt embarks on a quest to fnd an
answer to this question by interviewing philosophers, scientists and
academics, and uncovers an enormous metaphysical gulf in ideas.
We largely think of these matters in the context of a Cartesian duality,
a creation of Descartes in the seventeenth century, when mind was
declared separate from matter, God from the Universe, and the soul
from the body. Gradually, with further developments and progress
in scientifc thought and a greater separation between religion and
science, materialism became a dominant theme in the understanding
of reality, with reductionism as its underlying philosophy. However,
despite the dominance of psychophysical reductionism, which depends
heavily on the physical sciences, there are those who argue that
it is an exaggeration that the totality of who and what we are can be
explained only in evolutionary (Darwinitis) and neural (neuromania)
terms. Furthermore, it has been stated that narratives of the origin of the
cosmos and Darwinian evolution have serious limitations in explaining
reality and are almost false because they are inadequate in accounting
for the mind and consciousness. These fve lectures, the focus of which
will be mainly biological, will cover the current ideas around the big
questions and highlight some of the main arguments amongst scientists
and philosophers.
LECTURE TITLES
1. This is your brain, but where is your mind?
2. Lessons from Phineas Gage
3. The non-materialist answers
4. Why then, does the world exist?
5. Arguments for and against materialism and reductionism
Recommended reading
See page 75 of this brochure.
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1032 WOMEN IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY:
FROM EN HEDUANNA (2350 BCE) TO VERA RUBIN
OF THE UNITED STATES
David Wolfe, Emeritus Professor, University of New Mexico, visiting
lecturer, Physics Department, University of Cape Town
Physics, and its related science astronomy asks questions about
the nature of the Universe, from the tiniest scale of quarks to the
largest scale of the structure of the cosmos. It has its very own, unique
language mathematics.
This language, and the sciences it supports, are beautiful and flled
with symmetry. How ironic, then, that women who have often been
seen as symbols of beauty have been denied access to it. The world of
the sciences has, in the past, been closed to women as a result of their
denigration and subjection. Many women have had to struggle against
enormous constraints in order to achieve success in the sciences.
This course will discuss outstanding women scientists and their lives,
but most importantly, their science and the contributions they have made
to human knowledge. Women who will be discussed include the early
and famous Greek scientist, Hypatia, Marie and ve Curie the only
mother and daughter pair to win Nobel Prizes Marie Goeppert Mayer,
and, surprisingly, Florence Nightingale, who excelled at mathematics,
as well as the frst person to understand nuclear fusion, Lise Meitner.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Early scientists
2. Contributions to the development of quantum mechanics
3. Nobel laureates
4. Nobel laureates
5. Recent scientifc work
Recommended reading
Dictionary of Scientifc Biography
Dictionary of Women in Science
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1039 BIG DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES
FOR ASTRONOMY IN THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY
Coordinated by Dr Vanessa McBride lecturer, Astronomy Department,
MeerKAT, the Square Kilometre Array and many other large astronomy
projects will continue to produce quantities of data at rates never
encountered before. Radio wave emission will be detected for hundreds
of thousands of galaxies out to very large distances, but also from nearby
objects on many different timescales. This exponential growth in data
requires scientists to explore new methods of working on astronomy data
from their desk tops.
From hydrodynamical simulations of stellar environments to artifcial
data sets comprising thousands of galaxies, simulations are providing
crucial information on both data handling and science interpretation.
New strategies such as using graphics processing units and machine
learning techniques are being explored to deal with this deluge of data.
This fve-lecture course will examine the challenges of big data and
some of the possible solutions presented by astronomers, computer
scientists and mathematicians.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The SKA and the rise of big data in radio astronomy
Prof R. Taylor University of Cape Town,
University of the Western Cape
2. Simulating galaxies across the Universe
Dr E. Elson University of Cape Town
3. 3D simulations of evolved stars and their environments
Dr S. Mohamed South African Astronomical Observatory
4. Radio astronomy with graphics processors
Dr S. Perkins University of Cape Town
5. Astrostatistics on cosmic big data
Prof B. Basset African Institute for Mathematical Science,
University of Cape Town, South African Astronomical Observatory
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1008 A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN
ARMS DEAL AND ITS POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
Andrew Feinstein, writer, researcher, anti-corruption campaigner,
Director: Corruption Watch, United Kingdom
This two-lecture course will provide insight into Andrew Feinsteins
experience investigating the South African arms deal in his role as
the ranking ANC member of Parliaments Public Accounts Committee.
The course will discuss the deal, the corruption, the cover-up and the
political consequences of the deal. It will also address the Judicial
Commission of Inquiry into the deal, under Judge Seriti, which should
be in its fnal stages in early 2015. This will include the diffculties the
so-called critics of the deal have had in engaging with the Commission.
Finally, the lectures will locate the deal within the context of the global
arms trade and its pernicious impact on the way we are governed.
This course will be deeply personal, providing unique insights into
Feinsteins fourteen-year effort to expose and counter the impact of the
trade, and also analytical about the state of not just South African, but
global politics. This will be refected by the role of the arms trade as
an adjunct of the state especially the military, intelligence agencies,
departments of foreign affairs and political parties operating in
something of a parallel legal universe.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The South African arms deal: a personal perspective
2. The context and consequences of the South African arms deal
Recommended reading
Monday 19Tuesday 20 January 1.00 pm
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1010 ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA AND HER WORLD
Dr Kenneth Hughes, formerly Department of Mathematics and Applied
Mathematics, University of Cape Town
After the death of Queen Elizabeth the First of England, another young
woman, also named Elizabeth, briefy held the limelight. She was the
daughter of James the First and betrothed to the Protestant champion,
Frederick the Elector Palatine. The poet John Donne hailed their wedding
as the union of the Thames and the Rhine. After their nuptials had
been celebrated in London, the young couple embarked on a triumphant
journey across the Continent to Fredericks capital at Heidelberg. All of
Protestant Europe looked forward to a glorious future. Yet it was not to be.
Invited to become King and Queen of Bohemia, Frederick and Elizabeth
were hounded from their kingdom in Eastern Europe by the Habsburg
Catholic forces after a rule lasting only eighteen months. Losing her
husband shortly thereafter, Elizabeth was condemned to eke out the
rest of her existence in exile at the Hague as a lone and tragic fgure,
the Winter Queen. But in her youth and in exile she had managed to
attract the support of an astonishing range of artists and intellectuals
including some who later became very famous, such as the philosophers
Hobbes and Descartes.
This course will provide a glimpse into the early seventeenth century
by exploring the political and cultural milieu which surrounded this once
famous fgure.
LECTURE TITLES
1. From Scotland to the White Mountain: the life of Elizabeth, one-time
Queen of Bohemia
2. Elizabeth and the diplomats: Sir Henry Wotton and the system of
English alliances
3. Elizabeth and the artists: Inigo Jones and the rise of neo-classical
architecture
4. Elizabeth and the philosophers: Hobbes, Descartes and the Dutch
Cartesians
5. Elizabeth and the occultists: the manifestos of the Rosicrucian
Enlightenment
Recommended reading
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1048 UNDERSTANDING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS
AND ITS AFTERMATH
Professor Nicoli Nattrass, Centre for Social Science Research,
The global fnancial crisis had its roots in institutional failings, particularly
the failure to regulate the shadow banking sector. It also had its origins
in global macroeconomic imbalances persistent fows of savings from
China to the United States and inequality, which underpins the over-
extension of credit to poorer people in the United States.
This course will examine how individual and systemic level factors
combined to create the conditions for the global economic recession.
It will do so by looking at the different theories of the main cause of
the recession, each with different policy implications. It will look
specifcally at how the ongoing contestation between Keynesian and
other interpretations of the crisis continues to shape contestation over
how countries should be responding today. The lectures will draw on
readable accounts Michael Lewis The Big Short and John Cassidys
How Markets Fail, and on the documentary The Inside Job. The lectures
will conclude with a discussion of the implications of the crisis and how
it is understood within contemporary economic policy.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Introduction
2. Inside the Doomsday Machine: Michael Lewis The Big Short
3. Economic theories of economic collapse: John Cassidys How
Markets Fail
4. Inequality and the global economic crisis
5. The aftermath of the crisis and the ongoing policy debate
Recommended reading
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1006 STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE AND
LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA AND SOUTH AFRICA:
FOSTERING PROSPERITY AND DIGNITY
Professor Robert Rotberg, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
Poor governance, lax leadership and rampant corruption are harming the
growth prospects of most countries south of the Sahara. Wherever bad
governance prevails, citizens forfeit social and economic advancement,
health gains, educational opportunities and human dignity. As Africa
becomes more crowded, urbanised, and a part of the globalised
world, only exemplary political leadership and responsible governance
will enable these countries to meet the rising expectations of their
increasingly middle class citizens over the next ffty years. This course
will suggest how better leadership and governance can be realised, and
discuss the many obstacles to success and sustainable change.
One of the key obstacles is corruption. The course will explain how
African corruption operates, how it eats away at the body politic and
economic, and how and why it has become so endemic and entrenched.
The costs of corruption will be demonstrated, and it will be shown how,
why and where corruption can be defeated. Using examples from Asia
and Africa, it will demonstrate how a few jurisdictions have curbed or
eliminated corruption.
Leadership action has helped to reduce corruption, as has
accountability throughout revived judicial systems, tough laws, high
quality investigative journalism, the new mobile phone revolution and
revived national consciousness. This course will elaborate on these
issues, using examples from Asia, Africa and Europe.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Good leadership: Africa and South Africa
2. Improving governance: Africa and South Africa
3. Corruption: Africa and Asia
4. Enhancing educational opportunity: Africa and Asia
5. Getting growth right
Recommended reading
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1003 1915: THE GREAT WAR A HUNDRED YEARS ON
Kathleen Satchwell, Judge of the High Court of South Africa
In this course on South Africas involvement in the Great War events
of 1915 are viewed not as a chronology of battles and mud but the
explorations of a colonial society fnding its way within the Empire and
on a world stage. The course, in which participants will debate issues
that could not be discussed publicly, will examine the many reasons
South African men and women, black and white, volunteered for service.
The story of the war will be told through the life histories of soldiers who
served.
With the outbreak of war, the British government asked South Africa
to mount an expedition to capture the wireless stations and harbours
of German South West Africa. The frst half of 1915 saw Louis Botha
lead the Union Defence Force by sea and land. This campaign will be
described in the third lecture.
In the fourth lecture the experiences of professional nurses who had
trained in Britain and South Africa and the VADs who volunteered will be
looked at. They cared for the sick and wounded in tents, hospital ships,
deserted convents and hospitals. Many remain in France or in torpedoed
ships at the bottom of the ocean.
The law courts were confronted with disputes that refected the
concerns of civilian society and the Union Government. In lectures
two and fve participants will be given the facts and legal argument of
court cases involving rebellion, treason, defamation, soldiers wills and
reparations, and will be asked to give their verdict. A comparison will be
drawn between the views and verdicts of the audience and those of the
juries and judges.
LECTURE TITLES
1. For King and Empire: Why did South Africans volunteer?
2. Consider your verdict: adjudicate legal disputes of the War
3. The German South West Africa campaign
4. We are soldiers too: the South African war nurses
5. Consider your verdict: adjudicate legal disputes of the War
Recommended reading
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1045 ZIMBABWEAN HYPERINFLATION AND
DOLLARISATION
Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Ellyne, School of Economics,
Zimbabwes 2008 hyperinfation is said to be the second highest in
recorded history, and provides an interesting case study for economic
policy failure.
The frst lecture will explore possible motivating factors behind this
hyperinfation in order to understand why it happened and persisted for
so long, and who benefted from it. The lecture will examine the exchange
rate infation spiral and explain how a large parallel foreign exchange
market generated high profts for some. It will also explain how money is
created, how infation is linked to monetary policy, and the purchasing
power parity hypothesis of exchange rate determination.
The second lecture will examine the dollarisation exit strategy and post-
2008 economic policies. This lecture will highlight how dollarisation may
have saved Zimbabwe, but has created new challenges for the country,
including how to manage an economy without your own currency.
Furthermore, the choice of using the US dollar as the main currency was
probably not optimal, based on economic theory. Subsequent policies to
increase domestic liquidity and to control investment have also created
new and serious problems for the countrys economy.
This course will provide a case study of economic policy failures as
well as insight into the value of money.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Zimbabwean hyperinfation how did it happen?
2. Zimbabwes dollarisation and its challenges
Recommended reading
https://www.researchgate.net/profle/Mark_Ellyne/publications
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1040 THE INTERFACE OF GANG CULTURE AND POLICE
CULTURE ON THE CAPE FLATS
Irvin Kinnes, content adviser, Portfolio Committee on Police
The two-lecture course will look at gang culture and the interface with
police culture on the Cape Flats. It will also discuss the changes that
are taking place in gang organisation and how this has changed policing
approaches over the last twenty years. Finally, the course will look at the
complexities of police culture that hinders the policing of gangs.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Cultural practices of the gangs of the Cape Flats
2. Complexities of police culture
Recommended reading
Jensen, A. 2008. Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town. Oxford:
James Curry.
Standing, A. 2006. Organised Crime: A study from the Cape Flats.
Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies.
Kinnes, I. 2009. Uniforms, plastic cops and the madness of
Superman: an exploration of the dynamics shaping the policing
of gangs in Cape Town. South African Journal of Criminal Justice,
Vol 22, no 2,176193.
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1007 LABOUR RELATIONS IN POST-APARTHEID
SOUTH AFRICA: DILEMMAS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Professor Sakhela Buhlungu, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University
of Cape Town
In early June 2014 the platinum mining sector was in the throes of a
debilitating strike that was nearly fve months long. Virtually all attempts
to resolve the strike, including CCMA arbitration and intervention
by a Labour Court judge and the newly appointed Minister of Mineral
Resources, failed to get the parties to reach a settlement. The strike had
erupted merely a year after turbulent labour relations on Western Cape
wine farms resulted in strike action and some eighteen months after the
brutal killing of forty-four miners at Lonmins Marikana mine in August
2012. These, and many other events, are emblematic of the crisis into
which labour relations in post-apartheid South Africa has descended.
These three lectures will be illustrated with examples from different
industries, the economy, and organisational traditions and backgrounds.
The course will pose three questions which are uppermost in the minds
of all South Africans: What are the implications of the labour relations
turbulence for the economy? Does labour relations instability pose a
threat to the stability of the countrys fedgling democracy? Has the
time arrived for the country to rethink, or revamp, the labour relations
dispensation put in place by the Mandela government during the frst few
years of post-apartheid South Africa?
LECTURE TITLES
1. The crisis of collective bargaining and the upsurge of worker
militancy
2. The crisis of labour relations institutions, specifcally trade unions
and employer organisations
3. Trade unions and politics
Recommended reading
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1011 RETHINKING MANDELA:
AN HISTORICAL APPRAISAL
Professor Colin Bundy, historian
Any evaluation of Mandelas life and achievements involves an element
of retrieval, an attempt to rescue the man from the myth. This fve-
lecture course sets out to separate the actual life of the man from the
idealised hero: a secular saint, symbol not only of his own countrys
rebirth but also moral leader of humankind, whose death reminded the
world of its hunger for hope, for a better future. These lectures present
a biographical narrative that recognises Mandela as a compelling and
complex political actor, but one subject to the kinds of constraints and
contradictions of any political career. They locate Mandela in his time
and place, indicating the social and political currents that bore him. The
lectures echo the point made so frequently by Mandela himself that his
own achievements were part of broader, collective efforts. The lectures
will show that his own political projects and those of the ANC involved
the compromises, short cuts and shortcomings intrinsic to any politics
in a complex world. The fnal lecture will consider the towering place of
Madiba in the South African imaginary the way he inspired both love
and respect and by speculating on how he will be remembered. It will
conclude with a panel discussion with Professors Deborah Posel and
Ciraj Rasool, and Neo Muyanga.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Man and myth: the construction of an icon
2. From Youth League to Rivonia: the making of a nationalist
3. The prison years: the forging of the steel
4. The politics of reconciliation: the building of a nation
5. Remembering Madiba
Recommended reading
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1022 MISTRANSLATION AND NON-TRANSLATION IN
SOUTH AFRICA
Dr Emma McKinney, post-doctoral fellow, University of Stellenbosch
and Dr Tessa Dowling, Department of African Languages, University of
Cape Town
Despite South Africas proudly multilingual status, public delivery
of information in the countrys eleven offcial languages is frequently
neglected or mishandled. This two-lecture course will bring to light some
of the lesser known aspects and effects of mistranslation and non-
translation.
The frst lecture will provide a general overview of problems of trans-
lation and interpretation in South Africa. How is it that a country that
professes linguistic parity has Sign Language interpreters who make up
their own narratives, court interpreters who frustrate witnesses so much
that they resort to interpreting themselves, and signage that tells people
not to walk on a clearly designated walking area? The lecture will show
how misinterpretations and mistranslations can be a matter of life and
death in the health feld.
The outrage stemming from the fake interpreter at Mandelas
memorial service will serve as the starting point for the second lecture,
which will look at what makes South African Sign Language so unique.
This lecture will dispel myths surrounding Sign Language, and highlight
issues surrounding Deaf identity and culture and the ethics of Sign
Language interpretation. The session will be practical and interactive,
and provide participants with an insight into Deaf culture in South Africa.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Trespassers welcome but please dont ravish the bus driver
Dr T. Dowling
2. The fuss about the Fake Interpreter at Nelson Mandelas memorial
service: perspectives on South African Sign Language and the Deaf
community Dr E. McKinney
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1033 OSCAR PISTORIUS
Laurianne Claase, author and Kelly Phelps, senior lecturer, Public
Law, University of Cape Town
The Oscar Pistorius trial has captured the popular imagination in
South Africa and the world. This two-lecture course will look at some
of the deeper and more scholarly issues that have emerged from this
fascinating case.
In the frst lecture, Laurianne Claase, author of Pieces of the Puzzle:
Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp, will seek to understand Oscar
Pistorius in the context of the intrinsic violence and misogyny at the heart
of professional male sport.
In the second lecture, Kelly Phelps, CNN correspondent on the
Pistorius trial, will consider the impact of broadcasting on Pistorius trial,
interrogating the distortions and misinterpretations that emerge when
legal processes are analysed by largely non-legal audiences.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Oscar Pistorius and the cult of the sports celebrity
Laurianne Claase
2. The Oscar Pistorius trial: competing narratives of law and the
media Kelly Phelps
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1036 WHEN PARIS SNEEZES, EUROPE CATCHES
A COLD
Christopher Danziger, tutor, Department of Continuing Education,
Oxford University
This fve-lecture course will focus on one of the milestones in world
history the French Revolution of 1789, with its Reign of Terror, its
guillotine, its heroes and its villains. It will also discuss the other less
well-known revolutions that took place in France, many of them much
bloodier and more violent than the great revolution. It seemed that
whenever there was a revolution in France, it triggered a chain reaction
throughout the continent, which was what prompted Metternich to
observe that When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold. After each of
these revolutions the shock waves rippled across the continent, shaping
the politics, and even the borders, of Europe. The frst two lectures will
discuss the Great Revolution, followed by a discussion on the 1820,
1830 and 1840 revolutions. The course will conclude with a focus on the
1851, 1871 and 1968 revolutionary events.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The Great Revolution erupts: the best of times, the worst of times
2. The Revolution wanes: unfnished but sublime
3. 1820, 1830: the politics of the age of Romance
4. 1848: the springtime of the peoples
5. 1851, 1871, 1968: These Parisians are storming the gates of
heaven
Recommended reading
Dickens, C. A Tale of Two Cities. (Any edition)
Horne, A. 2007. The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune,
18701. London: Penguin Books.
Rapport, M. 2008. 1848: The Year of the Revolution. London: Little
Brown.
Schama, S. 1989. Citizens. New York: Knopf.
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1044 CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS:
TWENTY YEARS OF DEMOCRACY AND BEYOND
Dr Zwelethu Jolobe, lecturer, Department of Political Studies,
This three-lecture course will take a comparative approach to the design
of South Africas electoral and political system. It will refect on, evaluate
and examine the state of South Africas democracy twenty years after
the historic 1994 election. The course will also discuss the major
political trends, themes and questions that have emerged since 1994.
The lectures will focus specifcally on recent electoral trends, and will
generate questions on what these mean for the sustainability of South
Africas twenty-year-old constitutional democracy.
Finally, South Africa will be compared to other young democracies
that emerged at the end of the Cold War and tentative conclusions about
the state of these countries will be drawn.
LECTURE TITLES
1. South Africas political transition: 19901994
2. The democratic experiment: the electoral and political system
design
3. South Africa twenty years on: major trends and questions
Recommended reading
Esterhuyse, W. 2012. Endgame: Secret Talks and the End of Apartheid.
Cape Town: Tafelberg.
Gevisser, M. 2007. Thabo Mbeki: The Dream Deferred. Johannesburg:
Jonathan Ball.
Welsh, D. 2009. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid: From Racial
Domination to Majority Rule. Charlottesville: University of Virginia
Press.
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1030 THE PUTIN PHENOMENON: A RESURGENT
RUSSIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Dr Sara Pienaar, former National Director: South African Institute
of International Affairs and Prof Irina Filatova, Emeritus Professor,
University of Kwazulu-Natal, National Research University: Higher
School of Economics, Moscow
This fve-lecture course will examine the current situation in Russia and
the effect of its changing domestic and foreign policy on world politics.
Putins rise to power, his frst two terms and the Medvedev interlude
will be discussed. The course will look at Russias economic situation,
Putins new policies, the reaction of the population to these policies, the
prevailing attitudes of the majority of the population and the state of the
opposition.
In contrast to the chaos and demoralisation of the 1990s, a new and
assertive form of Russian nationalism has appeared since Putin came to
power. This has radically changed and reoriented Russian foreign policy,
and presents a major challenge for Russias near abroad and Eastern
Europe. The Wests failure either to understand or to mount a concerted
and effective response to this nationalism will be looked at. Increasing
Eurasian emphasis of Russian foreign policy, in relation to Putins
proposed Eurasian union and the growing importance of political and
economic relations with China, will be dealt with.
Finally, Professor Filatova will present her views on Russias foreign
policy and Dr Pienaar her views of Russian domestic policies. They will
demonstrate how foreign and domestic policies are interconnected, the
consequences of this for the regional and international situation and the
relevance of Russia to South Africa, historically and currently.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Putins home front
2. President again: the shape of victory
3. Putins world view and Russian foreign policy
4. Putins world view and Russias near abroad
5. Home and abroad: an interaction
Recommended reading
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1031 PAVING THE WAY TO PROSPERITY:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROADS AND ROAD-MAKING IN
THE WESTERN CAPE
Anthony Murray, former chairman of the History and Heritage Panel of
the South African Institution of Civil Engineering
Few formal roads existed in the Cape before 1845, when the colonial
government realised that the Colony would beneft from improved trans-
portation routes. The furry of road-making, pass building and bridge
construction that followed was a major factor in the transformation of a
backward colony into a thriving economy.
The onset of the railway network in the 1870s resulted in the road
system becoming neglected, but with the advent of motor vehicles in
the 1920s there was a renewed demand for properly engineered roads.
This illustrated two-lecture course draws on extensive engineering
research to trace the history of road development in the Cape. It will
describe the characters involved, their challenges, successes and
occasional disasters.
LECTURE TITLES
1. Conquering the mountains and rivers: nineteenth century routes to
the east and north
2. Building for comfort and speed: the twentieth century and the
advent of the national road system
Recommended reading
Burrows, E.H. 1994. Overberg Odyssey: People, Roads and Early days.
Swellendam: Swellendam Trust.
Mossop, E.E. Old Cape Highways. Cape Town: Maskew Miller.
Ross, G.L.D. 2011. The Romance of the Cape Mountain Passes. Cape
Town: Sunbird Publishers.
Thursday 29Friday 30 January 9.15 am
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1057 WINE AND THE VINE IN ART
Hilary Hope Guise, artist, art historian
From time immemorial wine has been at the heart of many civilisations.
It has been the drink of kings and heroes. Wine even came to represent
the blood of God. Wine, vineyards, wine-pressing and wine drinking have
been illustrated over centuries from Assyrian reliefs to Impressionist
picnics. From the earliest grape, the Persian shiraz, to the accidental
invention of champagne made from pinot noir grapes, allegedly by the
monk Dom Pierre Perignon, the story of wine is replete with surprise and
adventure. The great abbeys of Europe and England made wine in vast
quantities, not only for the faithful at Mass. Water was often contaminated
by cholera, thus Crusaders, Templars, Pilgrims and Knights of all orders
had to rely on wine on their journeys across Europe. French courtesans,
Dutch burghers, Parisian cocottes and English milords will feature.
This two-lecture course will include the adventures of Huguenot wine
makers sent to the Cape of Good Hope to establish vineyards for the
Dutch East India Company.
LECTURE TITLES
1. The journey of wine Assyria to the Vatican
2. Wine in the secular world
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1005 FAMILY SECRETS AND IDENTITY
Harris Gordon, Treasurer, Association Montessori Internationale (USA)
This lecture will trace the story of how Harris Gordon, born and raised in
Cape Town, the only child of Jewish parents, learnt the true story of his
parentage. When his mother, Bella Gordon, came to the end of her life,
she revealed information she had withheld from him for thirty-fve years.
She disclosed that Maurice Gordon, who had raised Harris as his son,
was not his biological father. His biological father was an Italian prisoner
of war, Dante Mezzadri, captured by Allied forces at Tobruk and one
of approximately 100 000 Italian POWs who had been incarcerated at
Zonderwater near Pretoria. When Mussolini was defeated, the prisoners
were released and Dante was assigned to work on the Gordons farm at
Vergelegen Estate.
The Gordons were unable to conceive a child nor permitted to adopt
across religious lines. Bella Gordon chose a different path. During a brief
affair with Dante, Harris was conceived. Dante later returned to his wife
and daughters in Rome.
After the family secret was revealed, Harris began a twenty year
search for the rest of his biological family. The lecture will describe a
chance meeting which led him to the curator of a small museum on
the site of Zonderwater and records received from Italy which led him
to his two Italian half-sisters and their families. This story of identity
re-defnition will include a reference to the little known history of the
role Maurice Gordons brother, Cecil Gordon, a top British war scientist,
played in the Allied victory in WWII.
Thursday 22 January 1.00 pm
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1041 BASIC EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA
Graeme Bloch, educationist
The education system in South Africa is not doing well. The Annual
National Assessments show that barely thirty-fve per cent of all
learners can read and count. Half drop out before they complete their
matric year. This does not take into consideration the racial inequalities
at tertiary level education.
How can solutions be found to fx the public school system? How can
resource inequalities be ended? How can solid foundations in literacy
and mathematics be established? How can citizens be critical, but
constructive in their criticism?
This lecture posits that more must be demanded of the young, their
teachers and offcials in order to build citizenship, correct inequalities in
resources and outcomes, and proceed in a planned manner.
Wednesday 21 January 1.00 pm
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1026 ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS
Dr Wilhelm Snyman, senior lecturer, School of Languages and
Literatures, University of Cape Town
This introductory course is designed to teach participants with
no prior knowledge of Italian how to understand and speak the
language. Participants will receive a grounding in Italian grammar
and conversational skills; each session will comprise both grammar
and conversation. Class participation is an important element of the
course and participants will be expected to spend time each day doing
homework tasks. On completion of the course participants should be able
to communicate in everyday situations and enjoy access to a challenging
and rewarding language, and will have acquired the essential elements
that will enable further study.
Participants are required to purchase the textbook Living Italian:
A Grammar Based Course prior to the commencement of the course.
Available from Protea Books and Amazon.
Please note that this course runs for three weeks, including one extra
week after Summer School ends.
19 January6 February 6.007.30 pm
Mondays to Fridays
No admission to single sessions
MAXIMUM 20 participants
COURSE FEES Full: R1 970,00 Staff: R1 380,00 Reduced: R1 040,00
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1027 MANDARIN FOR BEGINNERS
Nicole Franco, teacher, actress, project director
With increased trade and travel between China and Africa, a grasp of
basic Mandarin has become essential, facilitating communication on a
personal and business level.
For most non-Mandarin speakers the language appears daunting
and inaccessible, with its ancient characters and sing-song tonal
sounds. This introductory course demystifes the language and reveals
the simplicity of its grammar and accessibility of its relatively small
vocabulary.
Participants will be introduced to the sounds and tones of the
language and learn simple grammatical sentence structures. They will
be introduced to up to ffty traditional Chinese characters.
The main focus, however, will be on conversational Mandarin. By
the end of the course participants will be able to converse in everyday
situations and make simple travel and business enquiries. The sessions
will be interactive, with participants expected to take part in drills and
role plays.
The course fee includes all course materials. Please note that this course
runs for three weeks, including an extra week after Summer School ends.
Mondays to Fridays
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1028 XHOSA FOR BEGINNERS
Emeritus Associate Professor Sandile Gxilishe, University of Cape
Town
Many people believe they have a relatively limited aptitude for learning
Xhosa. This is because traditional classroom strategies tend to under-
exploit the full potential of students. This language course aims to
overcome language barriers using techniques that counteract negative
suggestions or fears and instil a positive approach.
The course aims to develop students basic language ability in Xhosa
as a spoken language. Some knowledge of Xhosa culture can promote
positive human relationships and even a basic working knowledge of
the language will allow students to expand their circle of friends, clients
or customers.
By the end of the course students should be able to pronounce Xhosa
sounds, names and family names and introduce themselves, greet
others and make requests. They should then have the confdence to
use small talk to initiate and maintain conversation in ordinary daily
communicative language.
The course will foster positive and supportive attitudes, encourage
active participation and make use of a range of relaxation and language
exercises. Homework will be minimal.
The course fee includes all course materials. Please note that this course
runs for three weeks, including an extra week after Summer School ends.
Mondays to Fridays
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1055 OBSERVATION IS A REVELATION
Jill Trappler, artist, teacher
Let us experience how a bud is formed and how a tree opens up, so
that we will become just as rich, just as fexible and just as capricious
as nature itself. Observation is a revelation, an insight into the
workshop of creation. Therein lies the mysterious secret.Paul Klee
This practical art course will show participants how to make an image
their own. Using the essential tools that make up an image, such as
line, shape, tone, composition and colour, participants will slowly work
through specifc exercises that lead towards making a painting. Whether
the work is fgurative or non-fgurative, its signifcance lies in how the
artist observes and interprets each image as it grows.
Participants will work from objects and should bring these to the
workshop in a small box. Through close observation and by using chance
and shifting approaches, participants will develop the object(s) into
images. By becoming involved with the materials, and by internalising
their relationship with what they see before them, participants will
translate the object(s) into an abstract or a descriptive experience that
will expand their way of working and seeing.
Beginners and experienced participants are welcome.
A list of equipment required will be available on registration.
2630 January 9.15 am12.15 pm
VENUE Goldfelds Education Centre, Kirstenbosch
COURSE FEES Full: R2 230,00 Staff: R1 020,00 Reduced: R695,00
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1021 FIVE COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL PAINTING
Paul Birchell, artist
There are fve components that make a painting more successful:
drawing, composition, colour, light and paint application. Getting all fve
components slightly wrong often leaves an artist feeling dissatisfed. But
if an artist gets just one of these fve elements right, this single felicity
somehow introduces a truth that can help to hold the other four together.
With every successful component added, the work gets better.
This course will look at each element individually to help give a
better understanding of how to use it to make a more successful
painting. The course will begin by addressing how to make an accurate
drawing. Balance and the brains visual awareness of the sublime will
be the focus of the second lecture, after which the importance of colour-
mixing, limited palettes and colour harmonisation will be demonstrated.
Throughout, the course will concentrate on teaching the eye to look
for subtlety and for direct juxtapositions of light and dark. Finally,
participants will experiment with different approaches to applying paint
to make a painting.
SESSION TITLES
1. Drawing
2. Composition
3. Colour
4. Light
5. Application
All materials will be supplied. The cost is included in the course fee.
1923 January 9.15 am12.15 pm
VENUE Goldfelds Education Centre, Kirstenbosch
COURSE FEES Full: R2 530,00 Staff: R1 320,00 Reduced: R995,00
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1029 CREATIVE FICTION WRITING
Ron Irwin, editor, lecturer, writer
This practical writing course is intended for serious beginner writers
of fction who need hands-on guidance on how to improve their work.
It will explore the fundamental elements of creative writing and offer
participants an invaluable opportunity to have their fction critiqued in
class. Structured in a workshop-lecture format, the frst hour of every
class is spent reviewing student submissions. The second hour will
usually be a short lecture on one element of the craft of fction and an
in-class exercise.
Students who attend this course should have ready access to email,
be prepared to complete short assignments and to submit their work
to the group via email for discussion. Ideally students should also be
serious about getting their work published.
2630 January 6.008.00 pm
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1024 LITERARY TRANSLATION MASTER CLASS:
AFRIKAANS TO ENGLISH
Antjie Krog and Karen Press, poets
In this two-hour master class, distinguished poets Karen Press and
Antjie Krog will engage in conversation with each other about the process
Press undertook when translating Krogs recent collection of poems,
Mede-wete, from Afrikaans to English. The relation between poet and
translator, their individual approaches to translation itself, the question
of who has ultimate control over individual translations, the differences
between English and Afrikaans, and the issue of whether some poems
proved untranslatable will be canvassed.
The focus will be on individual poems and words, and in the fnal hour
participants will have an opportunity to translate, in class, an Afrikaans
poem that gave Press particular diffculty and/or pleasure.
Participants should have some degree of fuency in Afrikaans. They
may fnd it helpful to bring a dictionary with them for the practical part
of this master class.
Tuesday 20 January 5.007.00 pm
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1051 WRITING BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
Pamela Newham, writer
This workshop will introduce the fundamental elements of writing for
children. Each session will include advice, discussion and feedback on
the previous days writing. Although the course will cover a range of
childrens writing, participants who wish to focus on a particular genre
or age group will be encouraged to do so.
The frst session will provide an overview of the different categories of
childrens books from picture books to young adult fction. The focus will
be on the needs of children at different ages, age-appropriate language
and fnding ideas for stories.
Session two will focus on how to write text for illustrated books for
younger children. Participants will analyse picture books, be encouraged
to think visually and learn the technique of creating a story board.
On day three emphasis will be on writing books for children between
the ages of six and twelve. The challenges of writing books in English for
a multicultural, multilingual readership and the differences in writing for
boys and girls will be discussed. Writing non-fction and writing for the
school market will also be covered.
Session four will look at how to create credible characters, introduce
humour and build suspense.
The last session will focus on the young adult or teen market: why the
fantasy and dystopian novel is so popular, whether trends are changing
and how to keep teenagers reading.
SESSION TITLES
1. Why write for children?
2. A picture paints a thousand words
3. Writing books children cant put down
4. How J.K. Rowling got it right
5. Are vampires a thing of the past?
Participants should come to the frst session with any childrens
book from The Tiger who Came to Tea to J.K. Rowling that particularly
appeals to them.
2630 January 10.00 am12.00 pm
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1015 THE ELECTRONIC EPISTOLARIUM: LETTERS,
ONLINE COLLECTIONS AND INVESTIGATING THE PAST
Professor Liz Stanley, Department of Sociology, University of
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This fve-lecture course is designed to give people interested in
investigating the past a well-grounded introduction to e-publications
of primary sources such as collections of letters. The introductory
session will focus on the Olive Schreiner Letters Online, including its
implications for South African historiography in examining topics such
as relationships between black radicals and white liberals, the Cape
Womens Enfranchisement League, Union in 1910, the so-called black
peril, and more. The course will also examine various projects that
work across the digital and print publications divide, with the Charles
Darwin Letters and David Livingstone Papers as useful examples. The
role of some digital projects in mapping connections between people,
places and ideas will also be discussed: for instance, Sol Plaatje knew
Olive Schreiner and named his daughter after her, while Schreiner knew
Karl Marx and was best friends with his daughter Eleanor, and these
connections mattered. The fnal session will explore the possibilities for
e-publication of letters and related resources in South Africa, from the
Nelson Mandela prison letters and beyond. Discussion will be based
around course participants ideas about new directions for such work.
Laptops or tablets are recommended but not essential.
SESSION TITLES
1. The attractions of the web: online sources
2. The powers of print: footnotes and editorial apparatus
3. The best of both worlds? Combining print and digital
publication
4. Mapping connections: links that make for 3-D history
5. New directions
Recommended reading
1923 January 5.006.00 pm
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1019 SLAVES TO THE RHYTHM: WRITING SONGS
Josh Hawks, musician
Each day of this songwriting course will follow a lecture-workshop
format, with demonstrations of music followed by interactive sessions
and practical exercises. The lectures will highlight the history and
development of popular music, from its slave trade origins to the
present. The interactive sessions will encourage the moulding of songs
and catchy melodies, and provide an opportunity to experiment with
different styles.
Participants should have a reasonable degree of musical ability, for
example facility with an instrument and/or singing experience, and are
welcome to bring their instruments to the sessions.
SESSION TITLES
1. Introduction to songwriting
2. The basic structure of a song
3. The universal chord pattern and the universal rhythm pattern
4. Sources of inspiration: where winning songs come from
5. Fine-tuning for the future
1923 January 6.008.00 pm
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1059 AT PLAY IN AFRICA:
MUSIC AND STORYTELLING IN AFRICA
Madosini, virtuoso Xhosa musician, storyteller and
Pedro Espi-Sanchis, musician, storyteller, ethnomusicologist
This hands-on course in traditional African music and storytelling will
use stories to introduce participants to ancient musical instruments
such as the Xitende, Uhadi and Umhrube bows, the Lekgodilo fute, the
Isitolotolo and the Tshikona pipe ensemble.
Storytelling is one of the earliest methods of education evolved by
humans, and very much up to date with the latest pedagogical thinking.
Participants will be introduced to African storytelling techniques and
encouraged to make and tell their own stories.
In the frst three sessions various African instruments, stories and
specifc African storytelling techniques will be introduced. The emphasis
will be on using stories and music to teach and to stimulate creativity.
In the fnal session, Madosini, Pedro and the participants will put on
a concert/storytelling event which will be open to participants guests,
their children and/or grandchildren.
SESSION TITLES
1. Introduction to African music and storytelling
2. Once upon a time in Africa
3. My grandmother once told me
4. The concert
Monday 26Thursday 29 January 4.006.00 pm
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1060 IN CONVERSATION:
LAND REFORM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Professor Ben Cousins, DST/NRF Chair, Institute for Poverty, Land and
Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) and Mazibuko Jara, editor, independent
researcher
Recent policy developments have again thrown into the spotlight the
highly contentious issue of land reform in South Africa. With less than
eight per cent of available land being transferred in the last twenty years,
South Africas land reform process has been achingly slow. Ben Cousins,
co-editor of In the Shadow of Policy and co-author of Land Reform and
Livelihoods: Trajectories of Change in Northern Limpopo Province,
South Africa and Mazibuko Jara, associate editor of Amandla! and co-
founder of Democracy from Below, will examine some of the reasons
for this lack of transfer. Challenges facing the process of land reform in
South Africa, the social, political and economic consequences thereof as
well as possible ways out of this apparent impasse will be considered
by the discussants as they endeavour to shed much-needed light on a
complex, emotive and critically important issue.
Tuesday 27 January 1.00 pm
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1042 IN CONVERSATION: THE FUTURE OF SOUTH
AFRICAS DEMOCRACY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
Professor Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University
of the Witswatersrand and Dennis Davis, Judge of the High Court of
South Africa
The continued poverty, despair and anger of millions of South African
citizens, and events such as Marikana and Nkandlagate, are posing
signifcant challenges to the integrity of South Africas democracy.
What role should higher education play in safeguarding the future of our
celebrated democracy? What is the relationship between education and
democracy? How critical is the independence of universities?
Professor Adam Habib, author of South Africas Suspended
Revolution: Hopes and Prospects, and Judge Dennis Davis will discuss
the contribution of higher education to the health of South Africas
democracy. Professor Habibs insight as a political commentator and
his experience as a university administrator will form the basis for this
conversation with Judge Davis, an experienced interviewer and jurist. Do
Professor Habibs public political positions and analyses help or hinder
a university like Wits? Are universities outdated and elitist institutions?
The importance of research, critical commentary and the education of a
young, thinking, citizenry will be discussed, as will the vision for higher
education promoted by Minister of Education, Dr Blade Nzimande.
Thursday 29 January 1.00 pm
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1061 IN CONVERSATION:
THE RIGHT TO DIE WITH DIGNITY
Professor Sean Davison, Department of Biotechnology, University of
the Western Cape and Reverent Mpho Tutu, Desmond and Leah Tutu
Legacy Foundation
This conversation aims to inform the public about issues surrounding
death and to encourage debate on a change in law that will allow for
assisted dying. It will address the complex issues around dying, for
instance suffering terribly from a terminal illness, having Alzheimers
disease and wishing to die with dignity, and being on life support. It is
envisioned that by having a public discussion such as this, people will
not have to deal with their anguish and issues of dying alone.
Professor Davison will discuss the circumstances around the reason
he was in court facing trial for the assisted death of his mother, and
in doing so not only tell his own story, but that of many, given that the
issues he had to deal with are more common than imagined and that not
everyone dies peacefully in their sleep.
This discussion will highlight the issue of elderly suicide and will
address the varied and many reasons for the disproportionate number
of older people likely to die of suicide than younger people, and show
that in countries where the law allows for assisted dying there has
been a dramatic decrease in the number of elderly suicides. Finally, the
discussion will address the work of the organisation DignitySA which
seeks to change the law to allow for assisted dying; a change in this law
would allow for an individual to have the choice of an assisted death and
for doctors to state publicly whether they are prepared to help or not.
Monday 26 January 1.00 pm
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1062 COLLECTING AFRICAN ART
Sandra Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town
This lecture that commemorates the sixty-ffth anniversary of the
Summer School programme will explore the practices of private and
public collectors of African art in South Africa. In doing so it will raise
interesting questions about the attitudes of both local and international
collectors to the art of traditionalist communities, including those
from southern Africa. It will also consider the importance of artists as
collectors, notably Irma Stern and Cecil Skotnes, both of whom acquired
works from throughout the continent, in some cases through direct
contact with African communities. By raising questions regarding the
tendency to differentiate fgurative art forms, particularly sculpture, from
others such as beadwork, this lecture will provide insights into the art/
craft debate that contributed to the undervaluing of the art of southern
African communities before the mid-twentieth century. Finally, the
lecture will look at the role played by soldiers serving in the Anglo-Zulu
and South African wars in acquiring trophies and souvenirs that have
ended up in major public and private collections of southern African art.
Friday 23 January 1.00 pm
Admission is free No registration is necessary
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1063 MADOJAZZ CELEBRATORY CONCERT
Madosini, Pedro Espi-Sanchis, Johnny Blundell, Hilton Schilder and
others
The annual Summer School celebrates its sixty-ffth anniversary with
a free African jazz fusion concert featuring musicians Madosini, Pedro
Espi-Sanchis, Johnny Blundell, Hilton Schilder and Chantel Petersen.
This performance represents a unique opportunity to hear Madosini,
the worlds greatest virtuoso on Xhosa musical bows, in a collaboration
with the full MadoJazz ensemble.
MadoJazz has toured Nigeria, the United Kingdom, Austria, Italy and
France, inspiring audiences with its explorations of the interface between
the earliest roots of jazz and this genres best contemporary expressions.
Please join us in celebrating this milestone in the Summer School
programmes history.
Friday 30 January 1.002.30 pm
Admission is free No registration is necessary
VENUE The quad, Kramer Building
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RECOMMENDED READING LIST
1003 1915: THE GREAT WAR A HUNDRED YEARS ON
Nasson, B. 2007. Springboks on the Somme: South Africa in the Great
War 19141918. Johannesburg: Penguin.
Kenneally, T. 2013. Daughters of Mars. Sydney, Australia: Random
House.
Stejskal, J. 2014. The Horns of the Beast: The Swakop River Campaign
and World War One in German South West Africa. United Kingdom:
Helion & Company.
1006 STRENGTHENING GOVERNANCE AND LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA
AND SOUTH AFRICA: FOSTERING PROSPERITY AND DIGNITY
Mills, G. 2010. Why is Africa Poor? And What Africans Can Do About It.
Johannesburg: Penguin Books.
Rotberg, R. 2013. Africa Emerges: Consummate Challenges, Abundant
Opportunities. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Rotberg, R. 2014. (ed.). Strengthening Governance in South Africa:
Building on Mandelas Legacy. Los Angeles: Sage.
1007 LABOUR RELATIONS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA:
DILEMMAS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Buhlungu, S. and Tshoaedi, M. 2012. (eds.). COSATUs Contested
Legacy: South African Trade Unions in the Second Decade of
Democracy. Cape Town: HSRC Press.
Buhlungu, S. 2010. A Paradox of Victory: Unions and the Democratic
Transformation of South Africa. Scottsville: University of KwaZulu-
Natal Press. (Chapters 1 and 8).
1008 A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN ARMS DEAL
AND ITS POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES
Feinstein, A. 2009. After the Party: A Personal and Political Journey
Inside the ANC. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
Feinstein, A. 2011. The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade.
Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
Holden, P. 2008. The Arms Deal in Your Pocket. Jeppestown: Jonathan
Ball.
Holden, P. and Van Vuuren, H. 2011. Devil in the Detail: How the Arms
Deal Changed Everything. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.
1010 ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA AND HER WORLD
Bouwsma, W.J. 1968. Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty:
Renaissance Values in the Age of the Counter Reformation.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
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Pursell, B.C. 2003. The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and
the Coming of the Thirty Years War. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.
Strong, R. 1986. Henry Prince of Wales, and Englands Lost
Renaissance. London: Thames and Hudson.
Yates, F. 1972. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment. London and Boston:
Routledge and Kegan Paul.
1011 RETHINKING MANDELA: AN HISTORICAL APPRAISAL
Boehmer, E. 2008. Nelson Mandela: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Lodge, T. 2006. Mandela: A Critical Life. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Mandela, N. 1994. Long Walk to Freedom. Randburg: Mcdonald
Purnell.
Sampson, A. 2011. Mandela: The Authorised Biography. Johannes-
burg: Jonathan Ball.
1013 LONDON LIFE IN THE TIME OF HOGARTH
Gatrell, V. 2013. The First Bohemians: Life and Art in Londons Golden
Age. London: Penguin.
Shesgreen, S. 1973. (ed.). Engravings by Hogarth. New York: Dover
Publications.
Uglow, J. 2011. William Hogarth, A Life and a World. London: Faber &
Faber.
1015 THE ELECTRONIC EPISTOLARIUM: LETTERS, ONLINE
COLLECTIONS AND INVESTIGATING THE PAST
Stanley, L. and Salter, A. 2014. The Worlds Great Question: Olive
Schreiners South African Letters. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck
Society.
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