Browsing UP Inaugural Addresses by Type "Event"

Browsing UP Inaugural Addresses by Type "Event"

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  • Committing architecture : the discrepancy between practice and academia 
    Joubert, 'Ora; University of Pretoria. Dept. of Architecture (2007-03-08)
    This presentation decries the dismal state of contemporary South African architecture as exemplified by our user-unfriendly city centres, ungainly and neglected civic spaces and alien, stylistically-driven commercial and ...
  • Failed states, fading dreams and a failing democracy : the critical role of public law academics 
    Botha, C.J. (Christo); University of Pretoria. Dept. of Public Law (2007-10-29)
    With reference to incidents where rule of law has been disregarded by the South African government and pointing to the danger of paraliament becoming a mere rubber stamp for the executive, the author urges legal academics ...
  • Finding the perfect balance : the challenge for contemporary private law 
    Boezaart, C.J. (Trynie); University of Pretoria. Dept. of Private Law (2008-08-28)
    The legal relationships governed by the rules of Private Law entail the most intimate ones in which people involve themselves. While the rules of Private Law aim at harmonising these relationships on the one hand it also ...
  • Looking for a home: a journey into nostalgia and (be)longing 
    Marchetti-Mercer, Maria Chiara (2007-04-18)
    The English word "home" and what it represents is not easy to translate although the yearning associated with it is to be found expressed in other languages. Home, together with the search for belonging, are both concepts, ...
  • Philosophy and the University : trends and temptations 
    Rossouw, Deon; Rossouw, Deon; University of Pretoria. Dept. of Philosophy (University of Pretoria, 2006-07-19)
    Abstract by author: Mae West once said: "I generally avoid temptation, unless I can't resist it." Oscar Wilde seems to have been even worse off when it comes to temptations as he said: "I can resist everything except ...
  • Virtual thermodynamic potential 
    Cukrowski, Ignacy (2007-03-12)
    Abstract by author: Electrochemistry started from the development of new sources of energy by Volta 200 hundred years ago. Still today this is a most urgent problem to solve for our civilisation to survive. Theory of ...