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            READ MORE Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney

            Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
            READ MORE A Will for the Machine: Technology, History, and the Arts

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.
            READ MORE Centre Sogolon and Iziko Museums of South Africa MOUs

            We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape have signed two historic memoranda of understanding with Compagnie Sogolon, Bamako, Mali, and Iziko Museums of South Africa.
            August 29, 2019

            CHR’s Valmont Layne Graduates with PhD focusing on Goema music

            The CHR congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate, with a thesis that focuses on the history of Goema music in Cape Town and its intricate links to Cape Jazz.
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            August 29, 2019

            Dr Thozama April awarded The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award

            The CHR congratulates Dr. April on receiving The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award.
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            August 22, 2019

            Seminar: Silvia Forni

            Opening spaces: Of Africa, slow museology, and institutional undoing
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            August 22, 2019

            The South African Students’ Organisation and the Black Consciousness Legacy

            Dr. Saleem Badat
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            August 19, 2019

            Seminar: Elizabeth Harney

            We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
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            August 8, 2019

            Seminar: Annelize Kotze and Bongani Ndhlovu

            Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities
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            August 7, 2019

            Built Form, Design, and the Politics of the City

            Visiting Scholars at the CHR Steve Akoth and Tom Asher will run a seminar on spatial formations as an object of analysis.
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            August 6, 2019

            What is the University for?

            A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
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            August 6, 2019

            Seminar: Ari Sitas

            Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey
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            • Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney
              August 5, 2025
            • A Will for the Machine: Technology, History, and the Arts
              August 1, 2025
            • Centre Sogolon and Iziko Museums of South Africa MOUs
              July 31, 2025
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