2017 Inaugural Lectures
Prof SLA Ferreira
03 March 2017
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Development of wine tourism: Destination life cycles, wine resorts and lifestyle farming
Prof Piet Naude
04 April 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Business School
Decolonizing knowledge: In what sense is an “African” ethic possible?
Prof Ian Nell
06 April 2017
Faculty of Theology
Department of Practical Theology and Missiology
“We know to whom we belong? The drama of ministry practice in a postcolonial African context / Ons weet aan wie ons behoort? Die drama van bedieningspraktyk in ʼn postkoloniale Afrika-konteks”
Prof Peter E. Mallon
25 April 2017
Faculty of Science
Department of Chemistry and Polymer Science
Macromolecular materials – The search for what is not there and how this relates to nanotechnology
Prof Karin Jacobs
25 April 2017
Faculty of Science
Department of Microbiology
The art of taxonomy in a world of technology
Prof Mias de Klerk
05 May 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Business School
The inconvenient truth of traumatic loss and disenfranchised grief in the arduous journey towards change resilience
Prof Michael Graham
05 May 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Business School
The Value-added Role of Industry Specialist Advisors in M&As
Prof Anton Pauw
08 June 2017
Faculty of Science
Department of Botany and Zoology
Ecology of plant-pollinator relationships
Prof Amos S Engelbrecht
27 July 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Department of Industrial Psychology
Ethical leadership: Challenges for research and organisational effectiveness
Prof Jan Havenga
27 July 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Department of Logistics
Logistics and the future: The rise of macrologistics
Prof Pregala S Pillay
10 August 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
School of Public Leadership
Ethics, public trust and corruption: Reflections on the South African realities
Prof Sadulla Karjiker
28 September 2017
Faculty of Law
Department of Mercantile Law
Politics and beyond
Prof MJ Kotze
12 October 2017
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Division of Chemical Pathology
Uncoiling DNA into precision medicine: Advances in clinical sequencing of the human genome
Prof SS Swart
17 October 2017
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Department of History
The Lion’s Historian: Animal histories from the South
Prof John S Terblanche
19 October 2017
Faculty of AgriSciences
Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology
Causes and consequences of insect physiological diversity
Prof Susan van Schalkwyk
21 October 2017
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Centre for Health Professions Education
On borders, boundaries and being a chameleon: Metaphors for reframing the academic project
Prof A Rudman
26 October 2017
Faculty of Law
Department of Public Law
Women’s access to regional justice as a fundamental element of the rule of law: The absence of a committee on the rights of women in Africa and its effects on the enforcement of the Maputo protocol
Prof Wayne Derman
16 November 2017
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Institute for Sport and Exercise Medicine (ISEM)
From Impossible to I’m possible – as safely as possible
Prof Johann Kirsten
21 November 2017
Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences
Bureau for Economic Research
Reflections on 25 years of engagement with the land question in South Africa
2017 Inaugural Lectures
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