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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). 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 Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
March 28, 2017

CHCI Annual Meeting: The Humanities Improvised

The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) will explore the multiple ways in which improvisation has ...
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March 28, 2017

Tribute to Ncedile Daki and Mluleki Sam

The Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape invites to you a tribute to artists Ncedile Daki and Mlu
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March 24, 2017

Voortrekker Gateways Exhibition Opening

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March 24, 2017

Nigel Gibson Seminar on Fanon

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March 24, 2017

New Book by Jane Taylor: William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

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March 22, 2017

I See You Wins Best New South African Script

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March 22, 2017

Visiting Scholar Fellowship 2017

We invite established scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to join a team of scholars and artists who, in conversation and coll
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March 16, 2017

Workshop: Violent Pasts, Violent Futures?

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March 13, 2017

“Freedom Within the Walls:” Thomas Mott Osborne’s Participatory Panopticon

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March 7, 2017

Seminar: The African Resistance Fighter Jacon Marengo

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March 2, 2017

The Passing of Ncedile Daki

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March 2, 2017

I See You Nominated for Fleur Du Cap Awards

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  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 10, 2025
  • Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
    October 10, 2025
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