Inaugural Lectures
An inaugural lecture is a formal event for newly appointed professors or those who have been promoted to full professor. They have to present the lecture within a year of their appointment or promotion. These lectures are held throughout the year in hybrid format, i.e., in person and virtually.
The lectures offer these professors the opportunity to share their knowledge, scientific discoveries and even personal journeys in their respective fields with the public and the academic community. Colleagues, family members and other interested parties are also invited to attend these inaugural lectures.
Upcoming Lectures
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Past Lectures
Prof Liezel Frick
Not just another brick in the wall: The role of doctoral creativity in educating future generations of researchers
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Prof Euan Phimister
Making economic models useful in an interdisciplinary world
Find out more »Cape Town, South Africa
Prof Wessel du Toit
My wine journey
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Prof Nokwanda P Makunga
Diving deep into a medicinal plant treasure trove: a focus on South African medicinal flora and beyond
Find out more »Stellenbosch, Western Cape 7600 South Africa
Prof Riaan Combrinck
Concrete: The journey and the destination
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Prof Francois Roets
Life took over the globe through combat and networking
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Prof Wesaal Khan
Safe water is a human right: Overcoming the last hurdle towards water security for all
Find out more »Prof Portia Jordan
To err is human: Developing evidence-based approaches for safer healthcare
Find out more »Cape Town, 7505 South Africa
Prof Nadine Bowers Du Toit
“Storying” our past/Claiming our future: Theology and Development’s coming of age in South Africa
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Prof Sophie von der Heyden
A brief journey through the evolution of marine molecular ecology in Southern Africa: 15 years of perspectives
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Prof Hans Strijdom
The vascular tree of an academic career: tortuous, turbulent and dysfunctional, interspersed with glorious moments of laminar flow
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Prof Marius Nel
Matthew, Jesus, and the creation of interpersonal forgiveness
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Prof Elmi Muller
Fugitive reflections on pain, death, and surgery
Find out more »Cape Town, 7605 South Africa
Prof Tulio de Oliveira
Two decades of genomics excellence: Illuminating health, fostering innovation, and cultivating transdisciplinary research in Africa
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Prof Ada Jansen
Tax revenue and development in South Africa: two sides of the same coin?
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Prof Susana Clusella-Trullas
Should I stay or should I go? Examining responses of cold-blooded animals to climate change
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Prof Henry Mbaya
Place, power, and the past: Memorialisation and monumentalisation of religion as a challenge to South African history of St Michael and St George, Grahamstown, 1992-1996
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Prof Sonja Mouton
Spectral theory in ordered Banach algebras
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Prof Richard Pitcher
Radiology in my lifetime – every day a new diagnostic dawn
Find out more »Cape Town, 7605 South Africa
Prof Dieter von Fintel
People, place and development: data storytelling through past and present
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Prof Benoit Divol
Unbottling the flavour of wine yeasts: an exploration of bubbling diversity
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Prof Shannon Hoctor
Sharpening the subjective element of criminal liability in South African law
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Prof Herman Engelbrecht
Building the metaverse
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