Programme

The talks will be held between 13:00 and 14:00 at the Old Main Building (Ou Hoof Gebou), Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch

Date

Speaker

Topic

Theme

Listen to the talk

21 August 2019

Dr Rika Preiser

Re-humanising Complexity: Conceptual and practical implications for anticipating new frontiers in complex systems research
Systems & Technologies for the Future

29 August 2019

Prof Willemien Froneman

Boeremusiek’s Liturgy of Whiteness

Human Creativity & Social Innovation

11 September 2019

Prof Amanda Gouws

“In my Culture Women Should Listen to their Husbands”- Understanding the Gender Gap in Attitudes in South Africa

Social Justice & Development

18 September 2019

Dr Corlia Meyer

A critical review of Citizen Science research in South Africa

Human Creativity & Social Innovation

03 October 2019

Prof Gerhard Walzl

Tackling unmet needs for tuberculosis care: tools for an imperfect world

Health & Human Security

09 October 2019

Prof George Claassen

Countering pseudoscience and quackery in the media – a journalist’s moral dilemma

Human Creativity & Social Innovation

16 October 2019

Prof Sampson Mamphweli

Thermochemical and biological conversion of biomass to energy

The Natural Environment

23 October 2019

Prof Anton van Niekerk

Ethics and Human Enhancement Technologies: Preparing for a new future

Social Justice & Development

30 October 2019

Prof Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel

Highlighting the disconnect between law and reality: Are the marginalised left behind?

Social Justice & Development

05 November 2019

Prof Cang Hui

Mathematical games between plants and their mutualists

The Natural Environment

13 November 2019

Prof Quinette Louw

Back Pain Explained

Health & Human Security

20 November 2019

Prof Josephine Musango

Dancing with system dynamics

Health & Human Security