Video and film material related to 2021 Summer School courses
Find videos, films and other material related to Summer School 2021 courses by browsing the links below. Our grateful thanks to Terrill Nicolay, Rosemary Smythe and Beverley Angus for compiling the lists.
ARTS & HUMANITIES
How artists confront times of social stress
Modern African literature: contexts of formation
Sacred places: mystery, journey, perfection
Truth and beauty in art: images of women through the ages
Literary creativity in J.M. Coetzee’s South African writing
Cryptic crosswords: conspiracies, clues and compilers
The cinema of Alfred Hitchcock
The hill towns of central Italy
Henri Matisse on the Côte d’Azur
Murderers: we can’t take our eyes off them
The story of opera: a visual and aural feast
Reading Camus’ The Plague after Covid
Making sense of the Rome we see today
Saint-Saëns: 1921–2021; ‘more than a carnival of animals’
Art and iconoclasm: the cult of St Thomas Becket
Tolkien’s medieval middle-earth
Introducing James Joyce’s Ulysses
Lectures
Monuments and memorialisation in Mexico
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY & CONTEMPORARY STUDIES
Lady Anne Barnard: discoveries in cross-cultural intimacy
El Camino de Santiago: walking the way of St James
Cape Town’s violent crime crisis
The South African economy and its financial markets: review and outlook
Epidemics in South African history
The future of the European Union
Translating equality, diversity and human rights into practice
The German predicament: Arminius to Merkel
Illicit trade 101: the who, what, where, when and why of contraband trade
Jan Smuts and his Great War in Africa
Lectures
Angels of mercy: foreign women in the Anglo-Boer War
Covid-19 and the law: How fragile is South Africa’s democracy?
The return of racial science in university research
Elite schools: who gets in and why?
SCIENCE, CONSERVATION & MEDICINE
A journey through space and time: beyond 50 years of astronomy at UCT
Letting off steam: the Chernobyl disaster
The ‘hard’ problem of consciousness
Covid-19: lessons and insights
Forensic science, trauma and justice
The complex life of the gut: the second brain
Drawing our human family tree: why dating cavemen is so important
Islam and science: yesterday, today and the future
Seaweeds, and their role in our future
Sleep and health: what have we learned from Covid-19
Lectures