Sep 4, 2022

Undoing Apartheid

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
Aug 24, 2022

Dear Comrade President: Oliver Tambo and the Foundations of South Africas Constitution

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.
Dec 13, 2021

Visualizing the body: photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution 1914-2014

The CHR warmly congratulated Doctoral Fellow Nsima Udo on the publication of his MA thesis as a monograph.
Jul 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.
Sep 18, 2020

The Book of the Missing

The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Acting Director and Associate Professor, Heidi Grunebaum, poetry collection ‘The Book of the Missing’.
Aug 7, 2018

Publication: Jane Taylor

William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered 
Jul 25, 2018

New Book by Luis Gimenez Amoros

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe
Jan 17, 2018

Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory

A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
Dec 7, 2017

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

Jul 26, 2017

Stuart Hall’s Voice

Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity
Mar 24, 2017

New Book by Jane Taylor: William Kentridge Being Led by the Nose

Jane Taylor
Jan 27, 2017

Publication: Recognition and Ethics in World Literature

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.

The CHR fellowship programme will continue in 2022 through online platforms and, where permitted, limited live events hosted in compliance with COVID-19 protocols. Please follow our events page for updates about events.

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