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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. READ MORE The Polyrhythmic Ensemble

The Polyrhythmic Ensemble was formed in 2023 with the aim of creating new works based around research into contrapuntal and polyrhythmic African music.
October 31, 2016

CHR receives two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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October 24, 2016

TRC workshop programme

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October 24, 2016

Seminar: Education or State Politics? – Elizabeth Giorgis

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October 23, 2016

Discussion with Mira Nair

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October 20, 2016

Seminar: State Capture?

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October 14, 2016

The Borderlands: Jo Ractliffe and Patricia Hayes

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October 14, 2016

Joint Seminar: Jennifer Tucker and George Agbo

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October 6, 2016

Animation of Dathini Mzayiya making a drawing of Emile Maurice

Dathini Mzayiya and Reza Khota Animation Commemoration for Emile Maurice Reza recorded separate photographic images of Dathini creating a charcoal sketch of Emile Maurice. He […]
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October 3, 2016

Seminar by George Agbo: The Technology of Visual Digital Activism

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