May 7, 2025
The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
April 3, 2025
The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards for 2025 are now open.
April 3, 2025
Senior Researcher
March 27, 2025
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
March 24, 2025
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.
March 12, 2025
Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
March 11, 2025
Leuphana University, Lüneburg
February 23, 2025
The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
February 19, 2025
The British Academy/National Research Foundation UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics, held by Professor Premesh Lalu in the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
January 23, 2025
Inhouse Media Coordinator
January 20, 2025
Maurits van Bever Donker’s Texturing Difference “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, was published with Polity Press in December 2024.
November 19, 2024
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert.