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TIME Monday–Saturday 19–24 January 2015 Course Pg TIME Monday–Friday 26–30 January 2015 Course Pg N 9.15 am Chaucer’s portrayal of women 1018 (14) 9.15 am ‘When Paris sneezes’ 1036 (50) MOWBRAY 1915: The Great War 1003 (43) Artistic reputations 1052 (12) BUS TERMINUS MOWBRAY STATION MOWBRAY

Successful painting 1021 (61) Observation is a revelation 1055 (60) CAPE TOWN & N2 Big data 1039 (38) The Higgs boson (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1034 (33)

Road making (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1031 (53) SHOPRITE 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) ROAD CHAPEL The genomic revolution 1037 (32) The past is another country 1056 (21)

Governance and leadership 1006 (42) Women in physics and astronomy 1032 (37) TO MOWBRAY VEHICLE ENTRANCE

1.00 pm The arms deal (Mon 19–Tues 20) 1008 (39) 1.00 pm In conversation: The right to die with dignity (Mon 26) 1061 (70) TO MIDDLE CAMPUS

CAMPUS

WOOLSACK DRIVE WOOLSACK

Basic education (Wed 21) 1041 (56) In conversation: Land reform in SA (Tues 27) 1060 (68) UPPER TO Family secrets (Thurs 22) 1005 (55) In conversation: Democracy & higher education (Thurs 29) 1042 (69) ROSEBANK STATION Collecting African art (Fri 23) 1062 (71) Madojazz celebratory concert (Fri 30) 1063 (72)

Musical promenade through Paris (Sat 24) 1014 (26) NEW BUILDING BAXTER THEATRE 3.00 pm Hogarth and Marriage à-la-mode (Sat 24) 1016 (25) ECONOMICS P1 BUILDING BAXTER ROAD MASINGENE

3.30 pm Elizabeth of Bohemia 1010 (40) 3.30 pm Fossils for Africa 1047 (30) PARKING CROSS CAMPUS DRIVE Three 20th century collections (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1017 (15) Gustav Klimt and Vienna (1898–1918) 1053 (18) MAIN ROAD Writing Richard Rive (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1023 (23) Three Biblical investigations (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1058 (13) LOVERS WALK LOVERS BREMNER

Ethics, rockets & space flight (Mon 19–Tues 20) 1012 (29) Wine and vine in art (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1057 (54) BUILDING LEVEL 4 LEVEL 2 BURG ROAD BURG

Natural coastal threats (Wed 21–Thurs 22) 1009 (27) KRAMER BUILDING RHODES DRIVE

4.00 pm ALL AFRICA At play in Africa (Mon 26–Thurs 29) 1059 (67) HOUSE SUBURBAN RAILWAY LINE SUBURBAN RAILWAY

5.00 pm Literary translation master class (Tues 20) 1024 (63) ROAD STANLEY The electronic epistolarium 1015 (65)

5.30 pm Rethinking Mandela 1011 (47) 5.30 pm Eugène Marais and Ingrid Jonker 1049 (19) P4

PARKING

RONDEBOSCH Problems in iconic novels 1025 (20) Contemporary South African politics (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1044 (51) ROAD GROTTO SHOPPING CENTRE Conservation in South Africa 1004 (28) Zimbabwean hyperinflation & dollarisation (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1045 (44) Paediatric critical care (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1043 (34)

Gravitational waves (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1046 (31) OF 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) TO CLAREMONT MIDDLE CAMPUS UNIVERSITY CAPE TOWN CAPE MUIZENBERG Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57) Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57) Slaves to the rhythm 1019 (66) Creative fiction writing 1029 (62) RONDEBOSCH STATION 7.30 pm Labour relations (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1007 (46) 7.30 pm The 2008 financial crisis 1048 (41) Italian art c. 1300 (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1020 (17) The big questions 1035 (36) Mistranslations & non-translation (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1022 (48) The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1054 (22) Parking and shuttle Palliative care (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1002 (35) Oscar Pistorius (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1033 (49) Parking is available on Middle Campus in P1, P4, the new Economics Building parking area and in the Gang and police culture (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1040 (45) Bremner Building parking area. A shuttle bus service is 8.00 pm A trio of treats (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1050 (24) available. Contact the shuttle office: 021 685 7135. Design & DTP User Friendly · Cover design Lawrence Louw · Printed & bound by Source Corporation CONTENTS

Course index by category ...... 2 Registration information ...... 4 Fee information ...... 6 General information ...... 8 Summer School film 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 2 Course Index by Category

ARTS AND HUMANITIES Artistic reputations: myth versus reality ...... 12 Three Biblical detective investigations ...... 13 Chaucer’s 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 (1898–1918) ...... 18 Eugène 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 à-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 spaceflight ...... 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 financial crisis ...... 41 Governance and leadership: Africa and South Africa ...... 42 1915: The Great War – a hundred years on ...... 43 Zimbabwean hyperinflation 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 3 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 fiction 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 Africa’s democracy and higher education . . . . 69 The right to die with dignity ...... 70

FREE LECTURE Collecting African art ...... 71

FREE CONCERT Madojazz celebratory concert ...... 72 4 REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration by post and in person begins on Monday 3 November 2014 .

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 first-come first-served basis from Monday 3 November . xx By mail Post your completed forms, enclosing payment. The most efficient 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. xx In person Bring your forms to the Centre’s office, Room 3.23, Level 3, Kramer Building, Cross Campus Road, Middle Campus, during office hours. xx 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. xx By email Email registration form to ems@uct .ac .za . xx 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 reflected on the deposit slip. It is 5 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 office 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 office.

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 office 3 November–23 December 2014 8.30 am–4.00 pm 2–16 January 2015 8.30 am–4.00 pm 19–30 January 2015 8.30 am–1.15 pm 3.00–6.15 pm 7.00–7.45 pm Closed 24 December 2014 from 12 noon Reopens 2 January 2015

Cash office 3 November–23 December 2014 8.30 am–3.30 pm 2–16 January 2015 8.30 am–3.30 pm 19–30 January 2015 8.30 am–7.45 pm 6 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 fields are completed. The CVC number (the last three digits printed on the reverse of the credit card) must be filled 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. 7 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 office 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 office.

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 five minutes before a course begins at the discretion ofthe 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 doctor’s certificate if you withdraw for medical reasons.

Credit card refunds will reflect 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 . 8 GENERAL INFORMATION

LECTURE VENUES Lectures are held in the Kramer Building, Cross Campus Road, Middle Campus, unless otherwise indicated. The final 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 traffic officers 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 certificate 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 first-come first-served basis only for students genuinely in need of disabled parking disks.

Students who use municipal parking disks must inform the Summer School office 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. 9 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 officers. 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 specified 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 five minutes before the lecture begins, your seat may be sold.

RECORDING OF LECTURES Please obtain the lecturer’s 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 . 10 CHILDCARE FACILITIES UCT’s Educare Centre on Upper Campus provides childcare for children from three months to five 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 Office directly at telephone 021 650 1050, fax 021 685 2629 or email [email protected], indicating that you are a Summer School student. The Summer School office 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 office at a cost of R5,00. 11

SUMMER SCHOOL FILM PROGRAMME This is a free film 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 office, 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 first five minutes of the start of film 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-fifth anniversary of the Summer School programme. See pages 71 and 72 for details . 12 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 five 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 Caravaggio’s 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 Gauguin’s 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 Pacific 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 naïve folk painter but a faithful record-keeper of the working man’s daily grind in the industrial north of England . Each illustrated lecture will convey the texture of the artist’s 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’

26–30 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 13 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 reflection 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 Jacob’s first-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 26–Wednesday 28 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 14 1018 WHAT WOMEN WANT: CHAUCER’S 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 five-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 Chaucer’s 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 Knight’s Tale – and fabliau – The Miller’s 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 Clerk’s Tale – and the rebellious one – The Wife of Bath’s Prologue. This section will consider particularly what Chaucer is doing with and to his sources and related misogynistic writings. Chaucer’s answer to the question of ‘what women really want’ and his assessment of the consequences that might follow if women’s desires were taken seriously will be explored in relation to The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale. Finally, the course will discuss the complex character of Chaucer’s great tragic heroine, Criseyde. No specific background in Middle English is required.

LECTURE TITLES 1. Women as prizes: The Knight’s Tale and The Miller’s Tale 2. Good wives: The Clerk’s Tale 3 . And maybe not so good: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue 4. What women want (and do they know?): The Wife of Bath’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale 5 . Chaucer’s 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 find Neville Coghill’s translation of The Canterbury Tales and George Krapp’s Troilus and Cressida the most easily available. There are also, of course, a number of online versions.

19–23 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 15 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 world’s 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 finest 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 Renoir’s La Loge, Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire, Gauguin’s The Dream and Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear . Paul Mellon’s 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, Cézanne 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 first modern art museum

Monday 19–Wednesday 21 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 16 1013 LONDON LIFE IN THE TIME OF HOGARTH

Edward Saunders, freelance lecturer

This course is condensed in course 1016 Hogarth and Marriage à-la- Mode. Please note that you may not register for both courses .

William Hogarth (1697–1764) spent his entire life in London participating in one of the most productive eras in the city’s history. Henry Fielding, David Garrick, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson and the young Sir Joshua Reynolds are among the influential 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 Hogarth’s name. Hogarth’s satirical series, A Harlot’s Progress, A Rake’s Progress and Marriage à-la-Mode, will be the starting point for this five-lecture course on London in the first sixty years of the eighteenth century. The lectures will cover Covent Garden’s brothels and theatres, the West End’s 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, Hogarth’s role as the first governor of The Foundling Hospital will be discussed.

LECTURE TITLES 1. William Hogarth, Covent Garden, Leicester Square 2 . A Harlot’s Progress 3 . A Rake’s Progress 4 . Marriage à-la-Mode 5. The Foundling Hospital

Recommended reading See page 74 in this brochure.

19–23 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 17 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 .Duccio’s Maestà and other works 2 .Pisano’s Pistoia pulpit and other works 3 .Giotto’s Arena Chapel and other works

Recommended reading Cole, B. 1987. Italian Art 1250–1550: 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, 1250–1400. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Monday 19–Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 18 1053 GUSTAV KLIMT AND VIENNA (1898–1918)

Dr Sabine Wieber, lecturer, History of Art, University of Glasgow

This course uses the art of Gustav Klimt as a point of entry into Vienna’s 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 Vienna’s Ringstrasse in relation to Klimt’s early career . Klimt’s role as the Secession’s first president and Vienna’s 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 Vienna’s first-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. Vienna’s Ringstrasse and the artists’ company 2. The Secession and Klimt’s society portraits 3. Klimt, the Viennese Workshops and the modern interior 4 . Sarajevo and the end of an era 5 . Vienna’s culture of death

Recommended reading Néret, G. 2000. Gustav Klimt, New York: Taschen. Partsch, S. 1994. Klimt: Painter of Women, Munich, New York: Prestel. Vergo, P. 2001. Art in Vienna, 1898–1918. London: Phaidon. Zweig, S. 1942. The World of Yesterday. (Any edition)

26–30 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 19 1049 THE AFTERLIVES OF POETS: EUGÈNE MARAIS AND INGRID JONKER

Associate Professor Lesley Marx, Centre for Film and Media Studies, University of Cape Town

‘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 fifty years ago. Three decades earlier, Eugène 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 conflicting stories of their lives have taken shape in novels, poems, biographies, recorded memories, stage plays and films. This course will explore the fascinating and frustrating lives of two of South Africa’s finest poets, and the ways in which succeeding generations have told their stories and forged their myths .

LECTURE TITLES 1. Introduction: when poets die 2. Eugène Marais: from dandy to ‘Diep Rivier’ 3. The haunting of Eugène Marais in film and theatre: from Ross Devenish to Reza de Wet 4 . Ingrid Jonker: from ‘Kabouterliefde’ to ‘Donker Stroom’ 5. The haunting of Ingrid Jonker in fiction, film and theatre: from Jack Cope to Jana Cilliers

Recommended reading Metelerkamp, P. 2012. Ingrid Jonker: A Poet’s Life. Hermanus: Hemel & See . Rousseau, L. 1982. The Dark Stream: The Story of Eugène N. Marais. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.

26–30 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 20 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 Misérables? 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 à 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 d’Urbervilles, Les Misérables, 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.

19–23 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 21 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 five-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 figures 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

26–30 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 22 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 ‘fleshly’ 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 significant women who inspired him. The final lecture will explore how Rossetti’s relationship with Jane Morris helped to establish a sensually aesthetic style of painting women, so influential 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 Martin’s Press .

Monday 26–Wednesday 28 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 23 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 first lecture will look at how Rive is remembered twenty-five 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 Rive’s fiction and non-fiction, 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 first emerged? Which works have survived, which have been forgotten?

LECTURE TITLES 1. Remembering Richard: writing Richard Rive’s life 2. Rereading Richard Rive’s fiction and non-fiction

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 22–Friday 23 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 24 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- fifth 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 first 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 evening’s 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 final evening will be heralded by Handel’s Zadok the Priest, contain a number of joyful works, and conclude with Haydn’s 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 26–Wednesday 28 January 8.00–09.30 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. 25 1016 HOGARTH AND MARRIAGE À-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 (1695–1764), and describe the London of his time. It will then consider in detail his most famous ‘modern moral subject’, Marriage à-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 field 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 Hogarth’s 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 3.00–5.00 pm LECTURE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R180,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R95,00. 26 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-là-là’. This double lecture will criss-cross between sights and sounds, visiting all the iconic Parisian places celebrated in song – boulevards, cabarets, cafés, 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 Trenet’s song, ‘La romance de Paris’.

Saturday 24 January 1.00–3.00 pm LECTURE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R180,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R95,00. 27 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 specifically 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 21–Thursday 22 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 28 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 five 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 figures 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, conflict 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

19–23 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 29 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 fireworks. For the first time in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century rockets were proposed for spaceflight and attracted civilian proponents. The first 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 flight, 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 flight. 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: 1932–1990 2. Spaceflight and ethics: 1971–the present

Recommended reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun http://www.astronautix.com/poems/plahfire.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_cultural_impact_of_ extraterrestrial_contact

Monday 19–Tuesday 20 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 30 1047 FOSSILS FOR AFRICA

Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town

This five-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 first lecture will examine the significance 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 final lecture will take a closer look at the diversity of South Africa’s world famous mammal- like reptiles and at how they gave rise to mammals. This lecture will also discuss the subsequent diversification of mammals and the diversity of early humans .

LECTURE TITLES 1. The fossil record Prof A. Chinsamy-Turan 2 . Earth’s 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 Ancestor’s Tale. New York: Houghton Mifflin.

26–30 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 31 1046 FROM GALAXY MERGERS TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: HOW BLACK HOLES CAN SHAKE SPACE-TIME

Dr Roger Deane, Square Kilometre Array (SKA) postdoctoral fellow, University of Cape Town

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 significance, closely orbiting black holes remain somewhat elusive after extensive searches with a multitude of telescopes. These lectures will discuss how this field 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. 142–178. http:// www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003491602000258

Thursday 29–Friday 30 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 32 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 five-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 modified 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

19–23 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 33 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. Griffiths, D. 2008.Introduction to Elementary Particles . Weinhem: Wiley .

Monday 26–Wednesday 28 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 34 1043 PAEDIATRIC CRITICAL CARE

Professor Andrew Argent, Medical Director PICU, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s 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 child’s 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 Children’s 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

Monday 26–Wednesday 28 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 35 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 Organization’s definition, 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 identification 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 definition 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

Monday 19–Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 36 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 find 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 scientific 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 five 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.

26–30 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 37 1032 WOMEN IN PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY: FROM EN HEDU’ANNA (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 filled 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 Ève 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 first 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 scientific work

Recommended reading Dictionary of Scientific Biography Dictionary of Women in Science

26–30 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 38 1039 BIG DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL CHALLENGES FOR ASTRONOMY IN THE SQUARE KILOMETRE ARRAY

Coordinated by Dr Vanessa McBride lecturer, Astronomy Department, University of Cape Town

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 artificial 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 five-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

19–23 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 39 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 Feinstein’s experience investigating the South African arms deal in his role as the ranking ANC member of Parliament’s 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 final stages in early 2015. This will include the difficulties 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 Feinstein’s 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 reflected 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 See page 73 in this brochure.

Monday 19–Tuesday 20 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 40 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, briefly 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 Frederick’s 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 figure, ‘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 figure.

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 See page 73 of this brochure.

19–23 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 41 1048 UNDERSTANDING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH

Professor Nicoli Nattrass, Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town

The global financial 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 flows 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 specifically 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 Cassidy’s 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 Cassidy’s How Markets Fail 4. Inequality and the global economic crisis 5. The aftermath of the crisis and the ongoing policy debate

Recommended reading See page 75 of this brochure.

26–30 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 42 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 fifty 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 See page 73 of this brochure.

19–23 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 43 1003 1915: THE GREAT WAR – A HUNDRED YEARS ON

Kathleen Satchwell, Judge of the High Court of South Africa

In this course on South Africa’s 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 finding 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 first 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 reflected the concerns of civilian society and the Union Government. In lectures two and five 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 See page 73 of this brochure.

19–23 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 44 1045 ZIMBABWEAN HYPERINFLATION AND DOLLARISATION

Adjunct Associate Professor Mark Ellyne, School of Economics, University of Cape Town

Zimbabwe’s 2008 hyperinflation is said to be the second highest in recorded history, and provides an interesting case study for economic policy failure. The first lecture will explore possible motivating factors behind this hyperinflation in order to understand why it happened and persisted for so long, and who benefited from it. The lecture will examine the exchange rate inflation spiral and explain how a large parallel foreign exchange market generated high profits for some. It will also explain how money is created, how inflation 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 country’s 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 hyperinflation – how did it happen? 2. Zimbabwe’s dollarisation and its challenges

Recommended reading https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Ellyne/publications

Thursday 29–Friday 30 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 45 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 2,176–193.

Thursday 22–Friday 23 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 46 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 five 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 Lonmin’s 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 country’s fledgling 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 first 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, specifically trade unions and employer organisations 3. Trade unions and politics

Recommended reading See page 73 in this brochure.

Monday 19–Wednesday 21 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 47 1011 RETHINKING MANDELA: AN HISTORICAL APPRAISAL

Professor Colin Bundy, historian

Any evaluation of Mandela’s life and achievements involves an element of retrieval, an attempt to rescue the man from the myth. This five- 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 country’s 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 final 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 See page 74 of this brochure.

19–23 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 48 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 Africa’s proudly multilingual status, public delivery of information in the country’s eleven official 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 first 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 field. The outrage stemming from the ‘fake interpreter’ at Mandela’s 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 don’t ravish the bus driver Dr T. Dowling 2. The fuss about the ‘Fake Interpreter’ at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service: perspectives on South African Sign Language and the Deaf community Dr E. McKinney

Thursday 22–Friday 23 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 49 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 first 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

Thursday 29–Friday 30 January 7.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 50 1036 ‘WHEN PARIS SNEEZES, EUROPE CATCHES A COLD’

Christopher Danziger, tutor, Department of Continuing Education, Oxford University

This five-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 first 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: ‘unfinished 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, 1870–1. London: Penguin Books. Rapport, M. 2008. 1848: The Year of the Revolution. London: Little Brown. Schama, S. 1989. Citizens. New York: Knopf.

26–30 January 9 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 51 1044 CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS: TWENTY YEARS OF DEMOCRACY AND BEYOND

Dr Zwelethu Jolobe, lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of Cape Town

This three-lecture course will take a comparative approach to the design of South Africa’s electoral and political system. It will reflect on, evaluate and examine the state of South Africa’s 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 specifically on recent electoral trends, and will generate questions on what these mean for the sustainability of South Africa’s 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 Africa’s political transition: 1990–1994 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 .

Monday 26–Wednesday 28 January 5.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R240,00 Staff: R120,00 Reduced: R60,00 52 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 five-lecture course will examine the current situation in Russia and the effect of its changing domestic and foreign policy on world politics. Putin’s rise to power, his first two terms and the Medvedev interlude will be discussed. The course will look at Russia’s economic situation, Putin’s 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 Russia’s ‘near abroad’ and Eastern Europe. The West’s 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 Putin’s 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 Russia’s 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 . Putin’s home front 2. President again: the shape of victory 3. Putin’s world view and Russian foreign policy 4. Putin’s world view and Russia’s ‘near abroad’ 5. Home and abroad: an interaction

Recommended reading See page 74 of this brochure.

26–30 January 11 .15 am COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 53 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 benefit from improved trans- portation routes. The flurry 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 29–Friday 30 January 9.15 am COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 54 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

Thursday 29–Friday 30 January 3.30 pm COURSE FEES Full: R160,00 Staff: R80,00 Reduced: R40,00 55 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-five 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 Gordon’s 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-definition will include a reference to the little known history of the role Maurice Gordon’s brother, Cecil Gordon, a top British war scientist, played in the Allied victory in WWII.

Thursday 22 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES Full: R80,00 Staff: R40,00 Reduced: R20,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R90,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R50,00. 56 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-five 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 fix 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 officials in order to build citizenship, correct inequalities in resources and outcomes, and proceed in a planned manner.

Wednesday 21 January 1.00 pm COURSE FEES Full: R80,00 Staff: R40,00 Reduced: R20,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R90,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R50,00. 57 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 January–6 February 6.00–7.30 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 58 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 demystifies 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 fifty 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.

19 January–6 February 6.00–7.30 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 59 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 confidence 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.

19 January–6 February 5.30–8.00 pm Mondays to Fridays No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 20 participants COURSE FEES Full: R2 550,00 Staff: R1 790,00 Reduced: R1 645,00 60 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 flexible 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 specific exercises that lead towards making a painting. Whether the work is figurative or non-figurative, its significance 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.

26–30 January 9.15 am–12.15 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 18 participants VENUE Goldfields Education Centre, Kirstenbosch COURSE FEES Full: R2 230,00 Staff: R1 020,00 Reduced: R695,00 61 1021 FIVE COMPONENTS OF SUCCESSFUL PAINTING

Paul Birchell, artist

There are five components that make a painting more successful: drawing, composition, colour, light and paint application. Getting all five components slightly wrong often leaves an artist feeling dissatisfied. But if an artist gets just one of these five 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 brain’s 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.

19–23 January 9.15 am–12.15 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 18 participants VENUE Goldfields Education Centre, Kirstenbosch COURSE FEES Full: R2 530,00 Staff: R1 320,00 Reduced: R995,00 62 1029 CREATIVE FICTION WRITING

Ron Irwin, editor, lecturer, writer

This practical writing course is intended for serious beginner writers of fiction 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 fiction critiqued in class. Structured in a workshop-lecture format, the first 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 fiction 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.

26–30 January 6.00–8.00 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 20 participants COURSE FEES Full: R995,00 Staff: R695,00 Reduced: R495,00 63 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 Krog’s 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 final hour participants will have an opportunity to translate, in class, an Afrikaans poem that gave Press particular difficulty and/or pleasure. Participants should have some degree of fluency in Afrikaans. They may find it helpful to bring a dictionary with them for the practical part of this master class .

Tuesday 20 January 5.00–7.00 pm MAXIMUM 35 participants COURSE FEES Full: R200,00 Staff: R140,00 Reduced: R40,00 64 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 day’s writing. Although the course will cover a range of children’s writing, participants who wish to focus on a particular genre or age group will be encouraged to do so. The first session will provide an overview of the different categories of children’s books from picture books to young adult fiction. The focus will be on the needs of children at different ages, age-appropriate language and finding 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-fiction 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 can’t put down 4. How J.K. Rowling got it right 5. Are vampires a thing of the past?

Participants should come to the first session with any children’s book – from The Tiger who Came to Tea to J.K. Rowling – that particularly appeals to them.

26–30 January 10.00 am–12.00 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 20 participants COURSE FEES Full: R995,00 Staff: R695,00 Reduced: R495,00 65 1015 THE ELECTRONIC EPISTOLARIUM: LETTERS, ONLINE COLLECTIONS AND INVESTIGATING THE PAST

Professor Liz Stanley, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

This five-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 Women’s 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 final 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 See page 74 of this brochure.

19–23 January 5.00–6.00 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 25 participants COURSE FEES Full: R400,00 Staff: R200,00 Reduced: R100,00 66 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

19–23 January 6.00–8.00 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 20 participants COURSE FEES Full: R995,00 Staff: R695,00 Reduced: R495,00 67 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 flute, 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 first three sessions various African instruments, stories and specific African storytelling techniques will be introduced. The emphasis will be on using stories and music to teach and to stimulate creativity. In the final 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 26–Thursday 29 January 4.00–6.00 pm No admission to single sessions MAXIMUM 30 participants COURSE FEES Full: R795,00 Staff: R555,00 Reduced: R395,00 68 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 Africa’s 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 COURSE FEES Full: R80,00 Staff: R40,00 Reduced: R20,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R90,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R50,00. 69 1042 IN CONVERSATION: THE FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S 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 significant challenges to the integrity of South Africa’s 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 Africa’s Suspended Revolution: Hopes and Prospects, and Judge Dennis Davis will discuss the contribution of higher education to the health of South Africa’s democracy. Professor Habib’s 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 Habib’s 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 COURSE FEES Full: R80,00 Staff: R40,00 Reduced: R20,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R90,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R50,00. 70 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 Alzheimer’s 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 COURSE FEES Full: R80,00 Staff: R40,00 Reduced: R20,00 Tickets are on sale at the door only if seats are available: R90,00; staff & reduced (on production of cards): R50,00. 71 1062 COLLECTING AFRICAN ART

Sandra Klopper, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town

This lecture that commemorates the sixty-fifth 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 figurative 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 72 1063 MADOJAZZ CELEBRATORY CONCERT

Madosini, Pedro Espi-Sanchis, Johnny Blundell, Hilton Schilder and others

The annual Summer School celebrates its sixty-fifth 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 world’s 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 genre’s best contemporary expressions.

Please join us in celebrating this milestone in the Summer School programme’s history.

Friday 30 January 1.00–2.30 pm Admission is free No registration is necessary VENUE The quad, Kramer Building 73 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 1914–1918 . 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 Mandela’s Legacy. Los Angeles: Sage.

1007 LABOUR RELATIONS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA: DILEMMAS AND OPPORTUNITIES Buhlungu, S. and Tshoaedi, M. 2012. (eds.). COSATU’s 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. 74 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 England’s 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 London’s 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 World’s Great Question: Olive Schreiner’s South African Letters. Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society .

1030 THE PUTIN PHENOMENON: A RESURGENT RUSSIA IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Enigma variations: special report on Russia. The Economist, 29 November 2008 . Filatova, I. Ukraine: Is Putin trying to reverse ‘the greatest tragedy of the 20th century’? Politicsweb, 14 April 2014. Filatova, I. and Davidson, A. 2013. The Hidden Thread: Russia and South Africa in the Soviet Era. Cape Town, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Shevtsova, L. 2014. Interregnum. Russia between Past and Future. Carnegie Moscow Centre: http://carnegie.ru/2014/05/13/ interregnum-russia-between-past-and-future/haoi 75 1035 THE BIG QUESTIONS: HOW FAR DO THEY TAKE US IN UNDER- STANDING ASPECTS OF REALITY? Holt, J. 2008. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story . London: United Kingdom. Profile Books. Nagel, T. 2012. Mind and Cosmos. Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False . Oxford: Oxford University Press. Tallis, R. 2011. Aping Mankind. Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity. Durham, United Kingdom: Acumen Publishing Limited. Damasio, A.R. 1995. Descartes Error: emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Avon Books.

1048 UNDERSTANDING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH Cassidy, J. 2009. How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Lewis, M. 2010. The Big Short. New York: W.W. Norton. Mah-Hui, M.L. and Hoe Ee K. 2011. From Marx to Morgan Stanley: Inequality and Financial Crisis, Development and Change, 42(1): pp. 209–227. Stockhammer, E. 2013. Rising Inequality as a cause of the present crisis, Cambridge Journal of Economics, doi: 10.1093/cje/bet052. TIMETABLE

TIME Monday–Saturday 19–24 January 2015 Course Pg TIME Monday–Friday 26–30 January 2015 Course Pg N 9.15 am Chaucer’s portrayal of women 1018 (14) 9.15 am ‘When Paris sneezes’ 1036 (50) MOWBRAY 1915: The Great War 1003 (43) Artistic reputations 1052 (12) BUS TERMINUS MOWBRAY STATION MOWBRAY

Successful painting 1021 (61) Observation is a revelation 1055 (60) CAPE TOWN & N2 Big data 1039 (38) The Higgs boson (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1034 (33)

Road making (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1031 (53) SHOPRITE 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) ROAD CHAPEL The genomic revolution 1037 (32) The past is another country 1056 (21)

Governance and leadership 1006 (42) Women in physics and astronomy 1032 (37) TO MOWBRAY VEHICLE ENTRANCE

1.00 pm The arms deal (Mon 19–Tues 20) 1008 (39) 1.00 pm In conversation: The right to die with dignity (Mon 26) 1061 (70) TO MIDDLE CAMPUS

CAMPUS

WOOLSACK DRIVE WOOLSACK

Basic education (Wed 21) 1041 (56) In conversation: Land reform in SA (Tues 27) 1060 (68) UPPER TO Family secrets (Thurs 22) 1005 (55) In conversation: Democracy & higher education (Thurs 29) 1042 (69) ROSEBANK STATION Collecting African art (Fri 23) 1062 (71) Madojazz celebratory concert (Fri 30) 1063 (72)

Musical promenade through Paris (Sat 24) 1014 (26) NEW BUILDING BAXTER THEATRE 3.00 pm Hogarth and Marriage à-la-mode (Sat 24) 1016 (25) ECONOMICS P1 BUILDING BAXTER ROAD MASINGENE

3.30 pm Elizabeth of Bohemia 1010 (40) 3.30 pm Fossils for Africa 1047 (30) PARKING CROSS CAMPUS DRIVE Three 20th century collections (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1017 (15) Gustav Klimt and Vienna (1898–1918) 1053 (18) MAIN ROAD Writing Richard Rive (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1023 (23) Three Biblical investigations (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1058 (13) LOVERS WALK LOVERS BREMNER

Ethics, rockets & space flight (Mon 19–Tues 20) 1012 (29) Wine and vine in art (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1057 (54) BUILDING LEVEL 4 LEVEL 2 BURG ROAD BURG

Natural coastal threats (Wed 21–Thurs 22) 1009 (27) KRAMER BUILDING RHODES DRIVE

4.00 pm ALL AFRICA At play in Africa (Mon 26–Thurs 29) 1059 (67) HOUSE SUBURBAN RAILWAY LINE SUBURBAN RAILWAY

5.00 pm Literary translation master class (Tues 20) 1024 (63) ROAD STANLEY The electronic epistolarium 1015 (65)

5.30 pm Rethinking Mandela 1011 (47) 5.30 pm Eugène Marais and Ingrid Jonker 1049 (19) P4

PARKING

RONDEBOSCH Problems in iconic novels 1025 (20) Contemporary South African politics (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1044 (51) ROAD GROTTO SHOPPING CENTRE Conservation in South Africa 1004 (28) Zimbabwean hyperinflation & dollarisation(Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1045 (44) Paediatric critical care (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1043 (34)

Gravitational waves (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1046 (31) OF 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) TO CLAREMONT MIDDLE CAMPUS UNIVERSITY CAPE TOWN CAPE MUIZENBERG Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57) Italian (continues until 6 Feb) 1026 (57) Slaves to the rhythm 1019 (66) Creative fiction writing 1029 (62) RONDEBOSCH STATION 7.30 pm Labour relations (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1007 (46) 7.30 pm The 2008 financial crisis 1048 (41) Italian art c. 1300 (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1020 (17) The big questions 1035 (36) Mistranslations & non-translation (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1022 (48) The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1054 (22) Parking and shuttle Palliative care (Mon 19–Wed 21) 1002 (35) Oscar Pistorius (Thurs 29–Fri 30) 1033 (49) Parking is available on Middle Campus in P1, P4, the new Economics Building parking area and in the Gang and police culture (Thurs 22–Fri 23) 1040 (45) Bremner Building parking area. A shuttle bus service is 8.00 pm A trio of treats (Mon 26–Wed 28) 1050 (24) available. Contact the shuttle office: 021 685 7135. Design & DTP User Friendly · Cover design Lawrence Louw · Printed & bound by Source Corporation