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            READ MORE Social Sciences Research Council Award Announcement: Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay

            We are delighted to announce that New Archival Visions Fellows, Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay, have been awarded Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal Fellowships with the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC).
            READ MORE Tyranny, The Third Term

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
            READ MORE Artists Forum: with Phokeng Setai

            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.
            November 17, 2021

            Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

            The CHR is very pleased to announce the publication of Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited by G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, and Premesh Lalu.
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            November 15, 2021

            Curating in the Dark

            CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.
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            November 9, 2021

            Call For Applications: Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards 2022

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities.
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            November 9, 2021

            ACIP Call for Proposals to Organise a Workshop

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2023.
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            November 5, 2021

            Kinetic Objects: Humans and Things and Puppets

            Kinetic Objects is a teaching collaboration emerging from the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute in the framework of the partnership on Aesthetic Education: A South North Dialogue, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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            November 4, 2021

            Former CHR Research fellow makes history as first woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana

            UWC congratulates Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, a former postdoctoral fellow hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research, on her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
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            November 3, 2021

            Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City

            The CHR congratulates colleague Dr Pallavi Narayan on the publication of Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City.
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            November 3, 2021

            Keynote Address: The Conjuncture of 1956

            Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
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            • Social Sciences Research Council Award Announcement: Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay
              August 28, 2025
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              August 22, 2025
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