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My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992). READ MOREIn Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
Contemporary Black female artists have reclaimed the everyday labor and domestic motions women have historically performed, as artistic gestures in their own right. For example, the ceramic and bronze sculptures of the African-American artist Simone Leigh have referenced vernacular processes like washing chores and needlework. READ MORETogether Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
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).
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 Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.
The book launch of Research and Activism: Ruth First & Activist Research, will take place on Wednesday 3 September (3:00pm-5:00pm) at the Iyatsiba Lab.
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.