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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.
November 29, 2018

Pan Troglodyte to travel to the Université Paris

Professor Jane Taylor to present performance/lecture in November
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November 29, 2018

Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence

CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu to speak at workshop at Northwestern University
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November 29, 2018

Re-Imagining as Destruction and Creation

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to speak at Norval Foundation Symposium
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November 29, 2018

Reza Khota Quartet to play at Cape Town International Jazz Festival

CHR Artist in Residence to perform at 20th annual festival
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November 22, 2018

Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop

10 and 11 December 2018
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November 19, 2018

Reza Khota Quartet – Liminal

25 November 2018
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November 14, 2018

RIVER AND REDFIN

The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018
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November 14, 2018

Marxism, Radical Traditions and the South: Reflections on “Stuart Hall’s Voice”

The Other Universals consortium of the CHR invites you to a panel
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November 13, 2018

Jakes Gerwel – Celebrating an icon’s legacy

The life and legacy of the late Prof Jakes Gerwel, former UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, was recently celebrated with, among other things, a keynote address by anti-apartheid activist, Jay Naidoo.
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November 1, 2018

Mandla Mlangeni receives 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award

CHR Artist in Residence in Jazz
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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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