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READ MORE Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November

The UK-SA Chair in Digital Humanities, held by Prof. Premesh Lalu, is welcoming international scholars to Cape Town in November to attend a three-day roundtable at Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock.
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).
November 17, 2021

Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

The CHR is very pleased to announce the publication of Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited by G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, and Premesh Lalu.
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November 15, 2021

Rory Bester

Research Fellow
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November 9, 2021

Call For Applications: Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards 2022

The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities.
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November 9, 2021

ACIP Call for Proposals to Organise a Workshop

The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2023.
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November 3, 2021

Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City

The CHR congratulates colleague Dr Pallavi Narayan on the publication of Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City.
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November 3, 2021

Keynote Address: The Conjuncture of 1956

Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
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August 11, 2021

In the Press: Tony Bonani Miyambo

CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo confronts the momentous challenges facing theatre makers with his solo show Commission Continua, performed online for the 2021 National Arts Festival.
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July 21, 2021

ACLS Visiting Postdoctoral Fellows

The following fellows were hosted through the Centre for Humanities Research as visiting postdoctoral fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Programme.
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July 21, 2021

Carla Meyer

Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, MA
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July 21, 2021

Zikhona Kokoma

Department of Anthropology, MA
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July 19, 2021

My House is a Spaceship

CHR Early Career Doctoral Fellow Reza Khota debuted his new improvisation on guitar and pedals as part of NewMusicSA’21 Digital Indaba.
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July 13, 2021

Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa

The CHR congratulates former doctoral fellow Okechukwu Nwafor on the publication of Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa by University of Michigan Press.
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  • Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November
    October 14, 2025
  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
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