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What is the University for?
A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
Democracy, Consensus and Citizenship
and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)
Kronos: Southern African Histories 44
Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)
Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting
Professor Premesh Lalu
Thinking across hemispheres: Further notes on oversights and blind spots in disciplinary African Studies
New Publication by Professor Premesh Lalu
Hostels, Homes, Museum: Memorialising Migrant Labour Pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
Noëleen Murray, Leslie Witz
National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa: A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO’s Exile Camps
Christian A. Williams
Peforming Zimbabwe: A Transdisciplinary Study of Zimbabwean Music
Edited by Luis Gimenez Amoros and Maurice Vambe
The burden of art historical memory and the archival interventions of a artist
George Emeka Agbo
Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965-2007
Allen F. Isaacman, Barbara S. Isaacman
Gender and Colonialism. a History of Kaoko in North-Western Namibia 1870s-1950s
Lorena Rizzo, with introduction by Patricia Hayes
Memorializing the Past: Everyday Life in South Africa after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Heidi Grunebaum
Pasolini e l’Africa. L’Africa di Pasolini. Panmeridionalismo e rappresentazioni dell’Africa postcoloniale
Giovanna Trento
Peace versus Justice? The Dilemma of Transitional Justice in Africa
Edited by Suren Pillay and Chandra Lakha
Representation Matters: (Re) Articulating Collective Identities in a Postcolonial World
Edited by Anette Hoffman and Esther Peeren
Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive
Edited by Heidi Grunebaum and Emile Maurice
What We See: Reconsidering an Anthropometrical Collection from Southern Africa – Images, Voices, and Versioning
Anette Hoffman
‘Progress’ in Zimbabwe: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country
Edited by Brian Raftopoulos, David Moore, and Norma Kriger
New Accents on the Social
Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.
Kronos 43: What is the university in Africa for?
2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker
Publication: Fred Bidandi
The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi
Hypocrisy: ‘Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d’
by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and […]
Publication: Suren Pillay
Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics
The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts
by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]
Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory
A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
Becoming UWC: Reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid’s legacy
Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray
Publication: Mwayi Lusaka
The CHR would like to congratulate doctoral fellow Mwayi Lusaka on the publication of his article.
Book Launch: Out of History and Unsettled History
The CHR and the Department of History, UWC invites you to a joint launch of […]
Remains of the Social
The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of […]
I See You Wins Best New South African Script
The CHR is excited to announce that I See You, a play by Mongi Mthombeni, […]
Publication: Bongani Ndhlovu
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by post-doctoral fellow Bongani Ndhlovu.
Publication: Recognition and Ethics in World Literature
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.
Empathy’s Echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.
Out of History: Reimagining South African Pasts
Edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Wits
Publication: Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication under the Migrating Violence research platform […]
Publication: Suren Pillay and Carlos Fernandes in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Researcher at the Centre […]
Igniting Conversations about Science
CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu delivered an address at the media launch of Science Forum […]
The Borderlands: Jo Ractliffe and Patricia Hayes
The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to a book launch and discussion between Jo […]
What is The University and its Worlds? Response by CHR Fellow Nehna Singh
The University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) hosted […]
Launch of the new edition of Turner’s The Eye of the Needle
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure […]
What is the university for?
By Premesh Lalu " In the wake #FeesMustFall protests that electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been […]