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READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams. READ MORE Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold

For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as source material for an artistic response. READ MORE Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
July 26, 2016

On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject

A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject
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July 22, 2016

Podcast: Timothy Campbell: The Generosity of the Mancus: Biopower, Neoliberal Gifts and Comedy

Professor Timothy Campbell (Cornell University, New York) delivered a lecture on the 16th of October 2014.
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July 22, 2016
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Seminar: The Performance of Race: Passing-Out Parades, Street Soccer, the ‘Civilized Body’, and the Creation of the ‘Perfect Other’ (c. 1940s-1960s)

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Virgil Slade (Department of History
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July 19, 2016

Transitional Justice in the Making: The Case of Colombia and Lessons from South Africa

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July 19, 2016

For The Water: A Presentation by Sandy Spieler (Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis)

We are excited to invite you to a presentation by visiting artist, Sandy Spieler from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis,
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  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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    October 22, 2025
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    October 21, 2025
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