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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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            February 25, 2022

            Puppet Walk and Performance at Boschendal’s Plum Harvest Festival

            After the great success of the elephant puppet walk at the Boschendal Plum Harvest Festival in 2021, we will be celebrating this year’s festival with giant puppets to raise awareness of the living waters and aquatic life of our planet.  
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            February 23, 2022

            In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

            CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.
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            December 17, 2021

            Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert Awarded Gold Medals by UWC

            The CHR warmly congratulates Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert of our partners Net vir Pret for being awarded Gold Medals by UWC.
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            December 17, 2021

            Restitution, Technics and Disciplinary Objects in the Preservation of African Music Institution Making

            Next Generation Scholar Valmont Layne examines the challenges and possibilities of music archives in Southern Africa.
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            December 15, 2021

            What A Wonderful World

            The 2021 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance centres on a family living in Barrydale and the connection a young woman has with an ancient indigenous tree, Old Gwarrie, as well as with the wonderful world she calls home.
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