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            Publication: Instituting Worlds

            The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.
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            Tectonic: TOMBWA - A solo performance by Victor Gama

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
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            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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            Recently Added

            • Publication: Instituting Worlds
              May 20, 2025
            • Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama
              May 16, 2025
            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
              May 7, 2025
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