2023 Lecture Programme
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Archaeoacoustics and the evolution of music: a vital link between the past and present
Prof Sarah Wurz
School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies at WITS
15 November 2023
Searching for Old Four Legs – The story of my search for coelacanths
Bruce Henderson
18 October 2023
Drugs as probes of the immune system: insights from TB drug hypersensitivity
A/Prof Jonathan Peter
Allergology and Clinical Immunology, Dept of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town Lung Institute
21 June 2023
Is the cerebral cortex the organ of consciousness?
Prof Mark Solms
Chair of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town
30 August 2023
Is the cerebral cortex the organ of consciousness?
Prof Mark Solms
Chair of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town
30 August 2023
A Critical Moment in the Continuity of Time
Prof Emlyn Koster
Director Emeritus, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Alberta, Canada
17 May 2023
The rise of the machines in our quest to understand the Universe
Dr Michelle Lochner
Department of Astrophysics at the University of the Western Cape
19 April 2023
The Faraoskop Event: uncovering the signs of prehistoric violence
Em. Prof Alan Morris
FRSSAf, Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town
15 March 2023
Mathematical models – successes, fads and fallacies
Prof Janek Banasiak
(University of Pretoria)
15 February 2023