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            READ MORE SA Jazz - These Times

            Herbie Tsoaeli, Attiyah Khan and Asher Gamedze, in conversation with Lindelwa Dalamba.
            READ MORE African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Maja Jakarasi as recipient of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Jakarasi, a Zimbabwean student in the Anthropology Department, is working on his PhD at the University of the Western Cape. Support from ACIP’s Ivan Karp Award will allow Jakarasi to pursue significant research for his dissertation.
            READ MORE Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.

            And I, a newly evolved fish, an exhibition by the RE-WIRING project, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, UWC, and the CHRs Iyatsiba Lab will be opening on Friday, 8 August 2025. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a seminar focusing on watery engagements.
            July 19, 2021

            My House is a Spaceship

            CHR Early Career Doctoral Fellow Reza Khota debuted his new improvisation on guitar and pedals as part of NewMusicSA’21 Digital Indaba.
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            July 13, 2021

            Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa

            The CHR congratulates former doctoral fellow Okechukwu Nwafor on the publication of Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa by University of Michigan Press.
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            July 13, 2021

            African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2021 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

            The CHR congratulates Doctoral Fellow Robert Uys for being named recipient of the African Critical Inquiry Programme’s 2021 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award.
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            July 7, 2021

            Worldings: A Virtual Conference

            Join CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo at Wordings: A Virtual Conference for “The Collapse: Creative Liberation of Collective Making” on 10 July 2021.
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            July 7, 2021

            2022 African Critical Inquiry Workshops

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that there will be two ACIP Workshops in 2022.
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            July 1, 2021

            Performing Charlotte Maxeke

            With 2021 being declared “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke,” the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical thought in the African Humanities at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, has embarked on a special production based on the life of Maxeke.
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            • SA Jazz – These Times
              July 30, 2025
            • African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award
              July 29, 2025
            • Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.
              July 25, 2025
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