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The University of Cape Town’s Centre for Extra-Mural Studies invites you to attend its Winter School from 24 to 31 July 2021. Winter School will be delivered online, using the Microsoft Teams platform. Winter School 2021 will run for ten days, including two Saturdays. Participants will be provided with links to the lectures.
Winter School is a public education programme that offers a range of short courses, open to all regardless of educational qualifications. These courses are for non-degree purposes and do not involve examinations or certification. Located in the Development and Alumni Department, the Centre for Extra-Mural Studies seeks to make the academic resources of the university accessible to a wide range of students.
We encourage you to explore new disciplines and ideas and look forward to your participation in this programme.
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Arts and humanities
- Introduction to African cinemas
- Afrikaans language and literature beyond the known
- Introducing provenance research and art restitution
- Being present where they were: Dante, Butler, Watson, Mann
- French singers and songwriters: a musical journey
- Benvenuti in Italia: literature, life and travel
- Shakespeare and Trumpism in the United States
- David Roberts: the orientalists and ‘Egyptmania’
- Reading Dostoevsky and Shakespeare: a warning from Hamlet’s father’s ghost
History, philosophy and contemporary studies
- Power to the people? Bolsheviks, the Berlin Wall, the Arab Spring
- South Africa’s Bloody Sunday
- The lesser-known William Burchell
- Business turnaround
- 1652: Perspectives on the peopling of the Cape
- A virtual tour of historical Cape Town
- Forgotten old Cape passes
- Fire at UCT: memories and associations
- Thuli Madonsela: the constitution and social justice: why should you care?
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution and South Africa’s education crisis
- South Africa’s most dangerous politician
- Was Imam Gasanodien Carel Pelgrim an Ottoman descendant?
- Stop-overs on the wagon N7
- Demitrios Tsafendas: Madness, race and politics
- Van Plettenberg’s beacon in the Karoo
Van Zyl Slabbert (1940–2010): charisma of a white anti-apartheid politician
Science, conservation and medicine
- Archaeologies of Austral: understanding heritage In southern Africa and Australia
- It’s not about the bats: conservation and the coronavirus
- Covid-19 in South Africa
- Covid-19 and the role of vaccination
- Mucus and the gut-brain axis
- Pangolins: scales of injustice
- The Martians of science
- Sleep and the brain
- Exploring the natural wonders of the West Coast
Book launch
- Meditations from the gutter
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Booking information
Booking has opened on Thursday 1 July 2021.
Book online at https://www.webtickets.co.za/.
If you require assistance, you can visit the Webtickets outlet at Pick n Pay stores, or you can phone the Summer School office. The Centre for Extra-Mural Studies will no longer handle bookings by fax, mail or email. If necessary, we can assist you with online booking via email or by telephone.
Changing courses
Once you have registered for a course it is not possible to change to another course of the same duration and cost.