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READ MORE Barrydale 2025: Steek my Weg

Join us for the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, 14 December 2025 at the BFO Primary School, Tinley Street, Barrydale.
READ MORE Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson

‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’, launched on 14 November 2025 at the Akademie der Künste (ADK). It is a project by the Akademie der Künste in collaboration with the CHR, and the Haus für Poesie, Berlin.
READ MORE Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the final session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
May 16, 2022

Book Launch: Love And Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

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.
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March 10, 2022

Kerala Council for Historical Research Launches Love and Revolution

The CHR is pleased to share that the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) will be hosting a launch for Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa.
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January 12, 2022

Ali on Joy

CHR Fellow Ali Ridha Khan invited to write the Editors’ Note for ODD Magazine’s December 2021 issue on Joy.
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December 21, 2021

Call for Abstracts: Kronos Special Issue on Sound

Kronos: Southern African Histories is seeking submissions for the 2022 special issue “Oral/Aural: Pastness and Sound as Medium and Method.”
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December 17, 2021

Dynamic Traditions: On the 100th Anniversary of Donaueschinger Musiktage

CHR Doctoral Fellow Lee Walters invited to contribute to Dynamic Traditions , a reader published by Elisa Erkelenz and Katja Heldt around the 100th anniversary of Donaueschinger Musiktage.
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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.
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December 3, 2021

The Quintessential Freedom Fighter: It’s Time to Reclaim the Meaning of ‘cadre’

The CHR is pleased to share “The Quintessential Freedom Fighter,” written by CHR Research Associate Seelan Naidoo and published in Daily Maverick. 
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December 3, 2021

What Apartheid Means for Israel

CHR Research Affiliate Tareq Baconi publishes “What Apartheid Means for Israel” in The New York Review of Books.
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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 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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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 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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  • Barrydale 2025: Steek my Weg
    December 2, 2025
  • Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
    November 25, 2025
  • Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO
    November 21, 2025
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