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            READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

            The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
            READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

            Updated 09 September 2025
            READ MORE Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

            The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
            February 18, 2021

            A Conversation with Patricia Hayes

            Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
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            July 6, 2020

            Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

            The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Adom Getachew.
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            June 12, 2020

            In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal

            The Other Universals consortium will be hosting an online seminar with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
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            June 9, 2020

            LoKO: Seminar One

            These online seminars will pursue many of the questions which we would pursue in the normal course of things; although things are anything but normal.
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            March 9, 2020

            Seminar: Domietta Torlasco

            Excerpt Rhythm Beyond Measure: Cinema and the Life of Images
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            February 28, 2020

            Seminar: Roger Field

            Intimacy and Violence
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            February 13, 2020

            Seminar: John Ricco

            Moths to the Flame: Photography and the Capitalocene
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            February 10, 2020

            Seminar: Meleesha Bardolia

            The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
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            February 6, 2020

            Domeitta Torlasco visits the CHR

            Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.
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            January 28, 2020

            Global Apartheid: A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

            A seminar course on Global Apartheid co-taught by Professor Cesare Casarino and Dr. Ross Truscott will take place in the first semester of 2020.
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            October 25, 2019

            Seminar: Sam Longford

            Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial
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            October 21, 2019

            A Public Conversation with Mamela Nyamza

            Mamela Nyamza is an award-winning artist, choreographer, dancer and performer.
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            • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
              September 10, 2025
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              September 9, 2025
            • Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy
              September 9, 2025
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