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READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992). READ MORE In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile

Contemporary Black female artists have reclaimed the everyday labor and domestic motions women have historically performed, as artistic gestures in their own right. For example, the ceramic and bronze sculptures of the African-American artist Simone Leigh have referenced vernacular processes like washing chores and needlework. READ MORE Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
January 27, 2017

Publication: Recognition and Ethics in World Literature

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.
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January 26, 2017

Empathy’s Echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.
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January 26, 2017

Out of History: Reimagining South African Pasts

Edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Wits
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January 23, 2017

SARChI Visual History and Theory Post-doctoral Fellowship

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January 19, 2017

Publication: Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity

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January 17, 2017

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Workshop

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January 17, 2017

Publication: Suren Pillay and Carlos Fernandes in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne

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January 16, 2017

African Critical Inquiry Programme: Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards – Closing date: Monday 1 May 2017

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January 16, 2017

Call for Proposals: Closing date: Monday 1 May 2017

Call for proposals to organize a workshop
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January 16, 2017

Olifantland – Trailer

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January 10, 2017

Filmmaking Practices in Africa Conference

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  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 10, 2025
  • Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
    October 10, 2025
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