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2 a l u m n i i n t h e n e w s Praise for Landsman’s The Rowing Lesson news of… Professor Jonathan Dorfan (BSc 1969), Director Emeritus of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, will be awarded an honorary doctorate from UCT in December. Award-winning piano duo Cara hesse (BMus 2005) and laura Pauna (BMus 2005) have several concerts in New York in May. Former Director of the UCT GSB, mike Page (MBA 1986, PhD 1993) has been appointed Dean at McCallum Graduate School at Bentley College. Sociologist Devah Pager (MSocSc 1996) explores racial inequality in the U.S. criminal justice system in Marked: Race, Crime and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. In December 2007, UCT awarded the Doctor of Science in Medicine to Professor wulf utian (PhD 1970), a pioneer in women’s health and advanced reproductive technology. Got news? we want to hear from you send in your news, profiles, photographs or any other items of interest. email tina Barsby at uctfund@comcast.net According to a review in The Observer, Anne Landsman’s second novel, The Rowing Lesson, confirms her reputation as “a major new voice”. The novel has been praised equally for its innovative style, poetic imagery, and lyrical descriptions of South African landscape. The Rowing Lesson traces the life story of Dr. Harold Klein, who grows up in World War II South Africa, from the perspective of his daughter Betsy, a New Yorker who has flown home to be with him, as he lies dying in a Cape Town hospital. A secondperson narrative, the novel weaves together stories her father shared with her, as well as Betsy’s own memories and vivid imagination. Landsman (BA (Hons) 1980) moved to New York after graduating from UCT. She describes how, while writing The Rowing Lesson, she realized that “some portion of my heart will always beat in that opposite hemisphere, in the shadow of the Brandwacht mountains”. Tannie Evita’s U.S. Tour Earlier this year master satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys swapped his home in Darling, South Africa, for a tour of Los Angeles, Boston and New York. A writer and performer of more than 20 plays, Uys was awarded an honorary doctorate by UCT in 2003. In the past six years he has toured South African, talking frankly to over a million children about the seriousness of the AIDS pandemic. Uys’ staunch support for AIDS education also featured prominently in his recent U.S. performances. As Artist-in-Residence at the University of Southern California, he spoke on “Comedy, Activism & Aids in South Africa” and gave several performances of his political cabaret, Elections and Erections: A Chronicle of Fear and Fun. Uys opened Elections and Erections in Cambridge in April, returning to the Zero Arrow Theatre where he performed the phenomenally successful Foreign AIDS in 2005. Boston-area audiences delighted in Uys’ host of special guests, all of whom he performed with uncanny accuracy, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, Bill and Hillary, and the glamorous Evita Bezuidenhout. Evita’s U.S. sojourn ended on a high note in May in New York, with three gala performances at La MaMa. It was here that Uys received the OBIE Award for Foreign Aids in 2004.
Pifer Award for Living Landscapes Project UCT scholars in the Clanwilliam-based Living Landscapes Project have won the Alan Pifer Research Award for the second time. Named in honor of former Carnegie Corporation President and founding Chairman of the UCT Fund, the Pifer Award is made annually to researchers whose work contributes to the advancement of disadvantaged South Africans. Drama Department Chair Mark Fleishman and Professor of Fine Art Pippa Skotnes received the 2008 Pifer Award for their work in bringing local history, drama and art to the Clanwilliam community. Archaeologist John Parkington initiated the community-based heritage and education project in the early 1990s. Parkington was recognized for his contribution to the area with the Pifer Award in 1999. Since then the Living Landscapes Project has taken root in the community. The project has established jobs in catering, crafting and guiding, informed local school curricula, and helped return the rich heritage of the area to the local community. In the mid-1990s art workshops were offered to fewer than 100 pupils annually. Now about 500 children each year complete workshops involving dance, storytelling, shadow puppetry, and arts and crafts. The program culminates in the annual Spring Lantern Parade which re-interprets traditional San themes. Goldman Sachs Supports Brown-GSB Partnership C a m P u s C o n n e C t i o n s 3 UCT’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) is among 16 prestigious U.S. and European business schools selected as initial academic partners in a global initiative to increase the number of underserved women receiving management education. The five-year partnership between the GSB and Brown University is part of the $100 million project, “10,000 Women” funded by New York investment bank Goldman Sachs. Brown and UCT will develop a course in technology innovation designed to build “entrepreneurship capacity” by providing students with the skills to leverage technology to create competitive businesses. For the fourth consecutive year, UCT’s GSB was ranked in the London Financial Times Global MBA Top 100. In the 2008 rankings the GSB is among the top five business schools in emergent markets such as Africa, India and China. Global Administrative Law in Africa NYU Professor Benedict Kingsbury, Judge Dennis Davis, Deputy Vice- Chancellor Thandabantu Nhlapo, Minister Trevor Manuel, Professor Dick Stewart of NYU, and Dean Hugh Corder at the UCT-NYU Global Administrative Law conference The procession during the annual Spring Lantern Parade in Clanwilliam In March UCT and New York University co-sponsored a conference on “Global Administrative Law Issues in the African Region”, held in the UCT Law Faculty’s Oliver Tambo Moot Court. Dean Hugh Corder described the conference as a great success: “Both South African and overseas delegates were challenged by views put forward in the papers, and a plan was drafted for further research and co-operation between NYU and UCT Law. Adding greatly to the significance of the event was the presence of South African Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel, who opened the conference, NYU President John Sexton who was the riveting after-dinner speaker, and Kader Asmal who spoke on ‘Private Military Security’.”
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