June 4, 2024
We are pleased to announce the publication of an African Economic History special issue on: Economic Sovereignty in South Africa. Edited by Ndumiso Dladla and Anjuli Webster, and featuring CHR research affiliate Bongani Ndlovu.
February 16, 2024
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kronos: Southern African Histories under the theme of Oral/Aural: Pastness and Sound as Medium and Method, edited by Dr Valmont Layne, CHR, and Dr Aidan Erasmus, Department of Historical Studies, UWC.
February 7, 2024
Architectural plans of a former house inspire the narrative structure of a new book by Kim Gurney, called Flipside: The inadvertent Archive, which takes the reader on a thematic journey from room to room as it follows the trail of specific archival artefacts lodged in the building’s attic.
September 21, 2023
Institution-building as artistic practice is the topic of a paper published by the CHR’s Dr Kim Gurney, as part of artistic research conference proceedings. 'Epistemic Disobedience’ posits Nafasi Art Space in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as a paradigmatic example of independent art spaces in Africa and their key working principles.
July 24, 2023
The latest Afrika Focus is now available. Edited by the CHR’s, Maurits van Bever Donker and Lwando Scott, this volume focuses on the question of transformative constitutionalism.
July 19, 2023
The CHR’s Dr Kim Gurney has contributed a chapter to a comprehensive book about the oeuvre of Bruce Arnott (1938-2018) – artist, academic and former director of The Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT.
June 12, 2023
On the Subject of Citizenship: Late colonialism in the world today, edited by Professor Suren Pillay
On the Subject of Citizenship: Late colonialism in the world today brings together reflections on citizenship, political violence, race, ethnicity and gender, by some of the most critical voices of our times.
May 29, 2023
The CHR's Premesh Lalu’s much anticipated new book, Undoing Apartheid, appears in November 2022 with Polity Press. The book responds to the CHR’s inaugural question of the meaning of post-apartheid freedom, especially through sustained research projects on aesthetic education, the becoming technical of the human, and communicating the humanities
May 16, 2023
Roundtable and Book Presentation
January 23, 2023
Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for the book launch of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Aprtheid.
August 24, 2022
The CHR warmly congratulates Andre Odendaal, The Vice Chancellor's Writer in Residence hosted by the CHR, on the publication of his latest book, Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations of South Africas Constitution.
May 16, 2022
On behalf of the Africa Institute, we are pleased to invite you to its Faculty and Fellows Seminar Series for a book launch and discussion on ,i>Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World.