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READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
READ MORE Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold

For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as source material for an artistic response.
READ MORE Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

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 Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
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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August 6, 2019

What is the University for?

A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
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July 9, 2019

Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life

Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” and he is described by former president Thabo Mbeki as “a fighter for the liberation of our people.”
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July 8, 2019

African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2019 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards

The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Bronwyn Kotzen and Ngozi May Okafor as recipients of the 2019 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards.
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June 20, 2019

Other lives of the image

Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory
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May 2, 2019

Democracy, Consensus and Citizenship

and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)
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March 26, 2019

Article in New Literary History Recognising the work of the CHR

James Chandler acknowledges the CHR in a publication on aesthetic education and sensibility.
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March 15, 2019

Kronos: Southern African Histories 44

Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)
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February 15, 2019

Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting

Professor Premesh Lalu
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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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  • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
  • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
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  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
  • Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
    October 22, 2025
  • Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere
    October 21, 2025
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