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