Sep 14, 2020

The Other Universals Consortium Webinar Series

The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar series from July - November 2020
Sep 8, 2020

Radical Disenchantment

A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
Jul 6, 2020

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Adom Getachew.
Jun 12, 2020

In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal

The Other Universals consortium will be hosting an online seminar with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Oct 11, 2019

Call for Papers – Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South workshop

The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.
Nov 14, 2018

Marxism, Radical Traditions and the South: Reflections on “Stuart Hall’s Voice”

The Other Universals consortium of the CHR invites you to a panel
Feb 2, 2018

New Research Grants Announcement

The Centre for Humanities Research is pleased to announce the award of two new research grants, beginning in 2018, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
May 16, 2017

Public Lecture: Professor Gopal Guru

The formation and practice of Social and Political Theory in the Indian conceptual imagination have, by and large, been a low profile enterprise.
May 13, 2016

Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”

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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