Extra-mural lectures.

Submitted by Jeandré on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 06:15
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  • 2005

  • 112 Saving southern African seabirds - John Cooper.
  • 112.1 A wealth of seabirds - P Ryan.
  • 112.2 How many pelicans are too many? - Marta Ponte Machado.
  • 112.3 Seabird movements and longevity - Dieter Oschadleus.
  • 112.4 Seabirds and eco-tourism - M de Villiers.
  • 112.5 Albatrosses and longlining - Samantha Petersen.
  • 142 Understanding climate change: seeking fair weather - Harald Winkler.
  • 142.1 The science of climate change - Peter Johnston.
  • 142.2 History and politics of the climate negotiations - Harald Winkler.
  • 142.3 Impacts and adaptation to climate change in South Africa - G Ziervogel.
  • 142.4 Mitigation of climate change: what can be done? - Stanford Mwakasonda.
  • 142.5 Climate change and sustainable development - Pierre Mukheibir.
  • 192 Plants as travellers and settlers: Cape Town's company's garden - Wim Tijmens.
  • 241 Cape Town’s water: how high a price to pay? - Heather Malan.
  • 241.1 Cape Town’s water: a history of usage - J Day.
  • 241.2 Aquatic ecosystems: working or wasting? - J King.
  • 241.3 Uses and abuses of rivers and wetlands - H Malan.
  • 241.4 Why does Cape Town’s water cost so little? - Geordie Ractliffe.
  • 241.5 Resolving the water dilemma - C Brown.
  • 295 Affirmative action and a raceless South Africa: can they co-exist? - Neville Alexander.
  • 232 The spell of words: JRR Tolkien and JK Rowling as world makers - Susan-Ann Cooper.
  • 232.4 Evil and orcs: The Lord of the Rings (volume 2).
  • 232.5 Apocalypse averted: The Lord of the Rings (volume 3).
  • 244 Excursion: water and its costs in greater Cape Town - Liz Day.

  • 2006

  • 146 Coming to terms with an unsavoury past: collective memory in Germany, South Africa, and Israel - Heribert Adam.
  • 191 Shared growth in the Western Cape: the path to a better future for all - Lynne Brown.
  • 192 Land redistribution in South Africa: debating the property clause - Lungisile Ntsebeza.
  • 163 Writing stories in-a-flash - Anne Schuster.
  • 223 Our future environment: issues for South African survivial - David Fig.
  • 223.1 Protecting our biodiversity and ensuring social justice - Rachel Wynberg.
  • 223.2 Securing environmental rights - J Glazewski.
  • 223.3 Is bad air the death of us? - E Cairncross.
  • 223.4 Land claims in conservation areas: the case of the Kgalakadi - William Ellis.
  • 223.5 Pebble beds, smelters and gene splicing: are we making the right choices? - David Fig.
  • 232 Jesus of Hollywood - Adele Reinhartz.
  • 232.1 Jesus movies as "biopics".
  • 232.2 The silent Jesus.
  • 232.3 The epic Jesus.
  • 232.4 The allegorical Jesus.
  • 232.5 The suffering Jesus.
  • 291 A new political discourse? Reclaiming citizen voices - Judith February.
  • 292 The revolutionary spirit in Mexican painting: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo - Ann Groves.
  • 294 Baby-making in the 21st century: paradox, desire, and design - Joan Raphael-Leff.
  • 295 Comparing Gandhi and Mandela - Kogila Moodley.

  • 2007

  • 111 Global catastrophe: past and future - Brian Warner.
  • 111.1 Asteroid and comet impacts - Brian Warner.
  • 111.2 Earthquakes and related tsunamis - F Shillington.
  • 111.3 Global warming - B Hewitson.
  • 111.4 Plagues - E Harley.
  • 111.5 A catastrophe of the inner world - M Solms.
  • 122 Knowledge and reality: an introduction to the philosophy of science - Robert Segall.
  • 122.1 What is science? Astrology versus astronomy.
  • 122.2 Spots mean measles: deduction, induction, abduction.
  • 122.3 Laws of nature or mere regularities?
  • 122.4 Karl Popper: conjectures and refutations.
  • 122.5 Truth: realism versus anti-realism in science.
  • 131 Biodiversity explained - Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan.
  • 131.1 Key principles and testing the evolution hypotheses - G Branch.
  • 131.2 History of life on earth: trends, patterns and biogeographical distribution - Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan.
  • 131.3 Morphological, biochemical and genetic similarities between organisms - G Bronner.
  • 131.4 Adaptation and natural selection, and the formation of new species - G Branch.
  • 131.5 The role of evolutionary biology in our daily lives - J Day.
  • 191 Zimbabwe's post-colonial history: lessons for South Africa - Brian Raftopoulos.
  • 195 Planets: new objects, new names, new definitions - Brian Warner.
  • 211 Fundamentalism or atheism: the possibility of religion in a scientific and secular culture - Augustine Shutte.
  • 211.1 The scientific world-view.
  • 211.2 The idea of the secular.
  • 211.3 Transcendence: European and African.
  • 211.4 The phenomenon of religion.
  • 211.5 Faith in a scientific and secular culture: a new view of God and death.
  • 241 Pole position: South Africa's involvement in Antarctica and the Southern ocean - Jan Glazewski.
  • 241.1 Introduction: the physical setting and geo-politics of Antarctica - Jan Glazewski.
  • 241.2 Antarctica through a South African lens - Don Pinnock.
  • 241.3 South African research – a physical oceanographer's perspective - I Ansorge.
  • 241.4 Antarctic explorers and their South African connections - S Cullis.
  • 241.5 Why spend taxpayers' money on the Antarctic Treaty Area? - Henry Valentine, J Glazewski.
  • 292 Transfrontier parks: new ways of greening Africa and the world - Maano Ramutsindela.
  • 294 Cape Town's housing crisis - Sophie Oldfield.

  • 2008

  • 211 Ethics and law in Biblical narrative - Azila Reisenberger.
  • 211.1 Do not do to others what you do not like done unto you.
  • 211.2 Dealing with politically incorrect emotions.
  • 211.3 Prophets and judges: ethical leaders or tyrants?
  • 211.4 Mighty kings: "law unto themselves"?
  • 211.5 Laws dealing with women: when righteousness is not enough.
  • 242 Climate change and impacts: transforming society - Phoebe Barnard.
  • 242.1 Science, politics and the South African context of climate change - H Winkler.
  • 242.2 Landscapes, livelihoods, natural resources and adaptation: climate change in Africa - G Ziervogel.
  • 242.3 Vulnerability and adaptation of ecosystems and biodiversity to climate change - Phoebe Barnard, G Midgley.
  • 242.4 Vulnerability and adaptation in the economy and impacts on freshwater and coastal environments - Arthur Chapman.
  • 242.5 Putting knowledge into action in the Western Cape - Tasneem Essop.
  • 291 The Hofmeyr skull and the origins of later Pleistocene South Africans - Alan Morris.
  • 292 Conserving our indigenous useful plants - Phakamani Xaba.

  • 2009

  • 112 Space, time, and relativity - David Wolfe.
  • 112.1 Greek ideas: Aristotle and pre-Socratic thought to the early Middle Ages.
  • 112.2 High Middle Ages: Descartes to Newton.
  • 112.3 Newton and classical mechanics.
  • 112.4 Einstein: Special Relativity.
  • 112.5 Einstein: Special Relativity.
  • 191 The road to the 2009 general election: economic policy and the party system - Zwelethu Jolobe.
  • 192 Recent problems in nuclear non-proliferation - David Wolfe.
  • 212 Evo-devo-ageing: development, evolution, and ageing - Brian Hall.
  • 212.1 Animal development: from egg to embryo.
  • 212.2 Animal development: organs and patterns.
  • 212.3 Evo-devo: how skeletons develop and evolve.
  • 212.4 Evo-devo: how novel structures arise.
  • 212.5 Ageing: the end of development.
  • 233 Distinctively Darwin: investigating an evolutionist - Mario di Gregorio.
  • 233.1 The young Darwin, the voyage of the Beagle and Darwin at the Cape.
  • 233.2 The path to evolution and natural selection.
  • 233.3 The Origin of Species and its reception.
  • 233.4 Human evolution, language, race, intelligence, Wilhelm Bleek.
  • 233.5 Science and religion.
  • 2009-02-12.10 Darwin's marginalia: visiting the mind of the great English naturalist - Mario di Gregorio.
  • 2009-02-12.11 Darwin and Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope - Brian Warner.
  • 2009-02-12.14 Charles Darwin: the man and the myths - Peter Bowler.
  • 2009-03-23 Humanising Darwin. Darwin in Cape Town: the Beagle voyage and beyond - Janet Browne.
  • 2009-03-24 Humanising Darwin. Darwin at Down - science at home - Randal Keynes.

  • 2010

  • 10126 Mathematical rambles - John Harold Webb.
  • 10126.1 Numbers old and new.
  • 10126.2 Highways and byways.
  • 10126.3 The royal road of geometry.
  • 10155 South Africa 2010: more of the same or real change? - Judith February.
  • 10119 The return of the irrational: modern occultism and the revolt against reason - Kenneth Hughes.
  • 10119.1 Subterranean currents: the lure of the irrational in a secularising age.
  • 10119.2 Romanticism: between reaction and revolt.
  • 10119.3 Fantasies of hidden knowledge: the 19th century occult revival.
  • 10119.4 Irrational politics: the conspiracy theory of society and totalitarianism.
  • 10119.5 Aquarius: the New Age in the 20th century and after.
  • 10128 Renewable energy in South Africa - Leila Mahomed Weideman.
  • 10128.1 Introduction to renewable energy: RE basics - Zeke Murphy.
  • 10128.2 RE technology opportunities for South Africa - Davin Chown.
  • 10128.3 The case for RE in South Africa today - Liziwe McDaid.
  • 10128.4 Distributed energy, citizenship and democracy - Glynn Morris.
  • 10128.5 Bulking up renewable energy in South Africa, the grid and other requirements - Riaan Smit.
  • 10115 The battle for constitutional democracy and the constitutional court - Dennis Davis.
  • 10115.1 Constitutional democracy: its distinctive elements - Dennis Davis.
  • 10115.2 Socio-economic rights, the courts and government accountability: housing, medicines and water - Gilbert Marcus.
  • 10115.3 State vs Zuma and other high profile cases: the judiciary as a site of political struggle - Michelle le Roux.
  • 10115.4 The burden of history: the legacy of the apartheid judiciary; the legitimacy of the present judiciary - Dikgang Moseneke
  • 10115.5 The next 15 years. Will constitutional democracy last? - Dennis Davis.
  • 10156 Finches, African birds, and the meaning of variation: Darwin's legacy - Phoebe Barnard.
  • 10153 National health insurance: why, what, and how? - Diane McIntyre, Anban Pillay.