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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
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            'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.
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            CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

            The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
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            April 20, 2022

            Call for Workshop Proposals: Transformative Constitutionalism

            The CHR Transformative Constitutionalism project invites you to submit a one-page proposal for the upcoming virtual workshop “What human is imagined in the ‘Human Rights’ contained in the South African Constitution.”
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            April 7, 2022

            Historic Rashid Lombard Archive Finds New Home at UWC

            Acclaimed South African photojournalist and activist Rashid Lombard formally handed over his vast personal collection of images, videos, and other material to the University of the Western Cape (UWC).
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            April 7, 2022

            Muslim Identity in the Colonial South Africa

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar series presents “Muslim Identity in the Colonial South Africa” by Halim Gençoğlu.
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            April 4, 2022

            Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue

            The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.
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            April 1, 2022

            2022 Fellows Welcome

            Following on from the first public lecture of 2022 by Jane Ohlmeyer, the CHR welcomed Fellows to the new academic year.
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            March 25, 2022

            Land Bonds

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by doctoral candidate Tara Weinberg (University of Michigan).
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            March 22, 2022

            Adom Getachew

            Visiting Scholar 2020
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            March 22, 2022

            Fadi A. Bardawil

            Visiting Scholar 2020
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            March 18, 2022

            Our Ghosts Were Once People

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a conversation with Bongani Kona on his new edited volume Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying (Jonathan Ball, 2021).
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            March 18, 2022

            Qadri Ismail

            Visiting Scholar, 2015
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            March 10, 2022

            Jane Ohlmeyer

            Trinity College, Dublin
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            March 7, 2022

            Public Lecture: Brian Friel’s Making History and Colonial Ireland

            The CHR in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA invites you to a public lecture by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
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            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
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