Books Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

Publication announcement: Dr Kim Gurney, 'Epistemic Disobedience’.

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....

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Award Announcement: Aja Marneweck, "Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022."

The CHR warmly congratulates senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, for being awarded "Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022", at the recent UWC Research Recognition Award ceremony....

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Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices

11-14 September 2023...

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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

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

August 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.

December 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.

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.

September 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’.

August 7, 2018

Publication: Jane Taylor

William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered

July 25, 2018

New Book by Luis Gimenez Amoros

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe

January 17, 2018

Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory

A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff

December 7, 2017

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

July 26, 2017

Stuart Hall’s Voice

Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

March 24, 2017

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

Jane Taylor