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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
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            'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.
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            CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

            The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
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            February 15, 2018

            Kronos 43: What is the university in Africa for?

            2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker
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            February 15, 2018

            Publication: Fred Bidandi

            The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi
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            February 2, 2018

            New Research Grants Announcement

            The Centre for Humanities Research is pleased to announce the award of two new research grants, beginning in 2018, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
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            February 2, 2018

            Publication: Suren Pillay

            Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics
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            January 17, 2018

            Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory

            A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
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            January 12, 2018

            Funders

            The CHR is supported by generous grants from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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            December 18, 2017

            Visual History Workshops

            The workshops aim to promote and sustain a conversation amongst the growing community of trans-generational scholars engaged in new research in visual
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            December 12, 2017

            Patricia Hayes

            Professor, DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory
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            December 7, 2017

            The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts

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            December 7, 2017

            Hypocrisy: ‘Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d’

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            December 7, 2017

            Becoming UWC: Reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid’s legacy

            Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray
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            December 6, 2017

            Lameez Lalkhen

            Administrator Finance Officer
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            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
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