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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).
June 29, 2018

New Research Collaborations

Mnemonic Solidarities, Global Humanities Institute: The Challenges of Translation
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June 29, 2018

New Work by Ukwanda Puppetry Collective and LoKO

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June 29, 2018

Public Lecture: Elizabeth Giorgis

Professor Giorgis teaches Art Theory and Criticism in the Graduate School of the College of Performing and Visual Art at the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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June 29, 2018

New Accents on the Social

Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.
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June 28, 2018

Winter School 2018

The 2018 Winter School and Retreat held from 3 – 6 July 2018 will bring together questions of desire, technology, and practice under the title After Technology.
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June 13, 2018

Encounters Film Festival awards and special mentions

The CHR congratulates doctoral fellow Rui Assubuji on winning the Ster Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best Short Film at the 20th Encounters Film Festival.
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June 7, 2018

Life is Wonderful Film Screening

July 2018 is the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth. And the Rivonia Trial is one of the most extraordinary in legal history.
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June 6, 2018

African Ethnographies

2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop
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June 1, 2018

Louis Moholo in conversation

CHR will be hosting a public conversation with jazz drumming great Louis Moholo at the Guga S’thebe Community Centre in Langa at 6.30 pm on June 8th 2018
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  • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
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Recently Added

  • 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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