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READ MORE Archive Lab: 'Archiving Resistance: The VNS/AFRAVISION Collective', with Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
READ MORE Winter School 2026: Liminalities: Thinking, Thresholds

Liminality has been theorised as a condition of transition. Whether in its original anthropological form as a movement from one state to another through a rite of passage or in its postcolonial rendering via Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity, liminality has come to mark a condition of being “not quite” and “not yet.”
READ MORE Call for Papers: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, October 2026

Application deadline: 17 July
November 5, 2025

Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Premesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
October 10, 2025

Book Announcement: Undoing Apartheid, by Premesh Lalu, Turkish translation.

We are delighted to announce that Undoing Apartheid by Premesh Lalu has been translated into Turkish and published by Afrika Vakfi Yayinevi. See below for more information about Undoing Apartheid and its Turkish translation, Apartheid’ı Ortadan Kaldırmak.
July 20, 2025

Kronos, Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network

We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest edition of Kronos, titled ‘Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network.’ This issue has been split into two sections, the second, Imagining the Environment, was co-edited by Patricia Hayes, Emma Minkley, and Caio Simoes de Araujo.
March 27, 2025

‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.

Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
March 24, 2025

‘Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl

This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.