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READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
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.
February 28, 2020

CHR’s Ukwanda Puppets off to Germany

The CHR is delighted to share Ukwanda's incredible achievements.
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February 28, 2020

Seminar: Roger Field

Intimacy and Violence
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February 14, 2020

Cesare Casarino visits the CHR

The CHR is a pleased to announce Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Cesare Casarino, at the University of Minnesota will be joining the Centre as a visiting scholar.
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February 14, 2020

Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation

The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
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February 13, 2020

Seminar: John Ricco

Moths to the Flame: Photography and the Capitalocene
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February 10, 2020

Seminar: Meleesha Bardolia

The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
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February 6, 2020

Domeitta Torlasco visits the CHR

Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.
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  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
  • Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
    October 22, 2025
  • Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere
    October 21, 2025
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