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READ MORE Dublin Short: A Little Approach to Big History

Join us for a screening of Dublin Short a short documentary capturing the magic of the Little Museum of Dublin's famous guided tour. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Daryl Hendley Rooney, deputy curator at the Little Museum and visiting researcher on the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair. 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 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).
August 31, 2016

People You May Know: A Performance at the Factory of the Arts

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August 31, 2016

Postdoctoral, PhD, MA and Honours Awards Announcement for 2017

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August 31, 2016

Seminar by Bongani Ndhlovu: ‘Apartheid’s Golden Age’

Reconnoitring alternative forms of resistance to apartheid South Africa, c1966-1979
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August 29, 2016

South Sudan: The Road to Civil War – A Lecture by Mahmood Mamdani

Professor Mahmood Mamdani delivered a public lecture titled "South Sudan: The Road to Civil War' on 18 August 2016 at the University of the Western Ca
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August 29, 2016

Seminar by Janeke Thumbran: “Sisters are Building it for Themselves:”

Architecture, Self-Reliance and Trusteeship at the University of Pretoria, 1943 to present times
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August 19, 2016

Seminar: The Making of MK: Whose Violence & to What End? The Debates of 1960–1 – Paul S. Landau

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August 17, 2016

Die Name Wat Ons Gee/The Names That We Give

2015 Barrydale Festival with Net Vir Pret and Handspring Puppet Company
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August 12, 2016

Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes

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August 12, 2016

Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

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August 10, 2016

The CHR welcomes Visiting Scholars Professor Paul Landau and Dr Emily Landau

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August 10, 2016

A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau

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August 5, 2016

Exhibition Launch: USAKOS: Photographs beyond Ruins

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  • Dublin Short: A Little Approach to Big History
    October 6, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 3, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 3, 2025
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