December 2019 - The Centre for Humanities Research

Winter School 2026: Liminalities: Thinking, Thresholds

Liminality has been theorised as a condition of transition. Whether in its original anthropological form as a movement from one state to another through a rite of passage or in its postcolonial rendering via Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity, liminality has come to mark a condition of being “not quite” and “not yet.”

Call for Papers: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, October 2026

Application deadline: 17 July

Public Lecture: 'Moving Between Facts and Fabulations: Some Notes' with Marcos Martins, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

A public lecture in conjunction with the CHR annual Winter School Programme.

December 10, 2019

Democracy: Genealogies, Concepts, and Practices

A conference hosted by the CHR from 17 - 18 December 2019 will explore the relationship between the genealogy, the concept and the practice of democracy.

December 2, 2019

The Arts and Rethinking the Subject

The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation Days.