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READ MORE Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana

We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.
READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

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 MORE In 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.
March 13, 2020

Jacques Depelchin

Dr. Jacques Depelchin is a committed intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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March 13, 2020

Sanjay Krishnan

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February 6, 2020

Domietta Torlasco

Associate Professor, Italian and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
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August 7, 2019

Steve Ouma Akoth

Kenyatta University
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August 7, 2019

Dr. Thomas Asher

Columbia World Projects, Columbia University
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January 11, 2019

Tony Bonani Miyambo

Artist in Residence, Theatre
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January 11, 2019

Chumisa Fihla

Artist in Residence, Art
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September 20, 2018

Phokeng Setai

DSI-NRF Early Career Doctoral Fellow
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September 4, 2018

Anaïs Nony

Postdoctoral Fellow
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July 18, 2018

Michael Neocosmos

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July 18, 2018

Johannes Fabian

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July 13, 2018

Kim Gurney

Senior Researcher,
UK-RSA Bilateral Research Chair: Digital humanities chair in culture and technics
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  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 10, 2025
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