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            A listening session with Leila Bencharnia

            The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
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            DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.

            The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
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            In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            April 26, 2019

            Sex and the Profane: FAKA, Abject Erotics, and the Politics of Deviance in post-apartheid South Africa

            A Humanities in Session Lecture by Assistant Professor Jordache A. Ellapen
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            April 15, 2019

            The Curricular and the Global, the Tropic and the Taxonomic

            The Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop held in December of 2018 enabled a rich set of connections and convergences around questions of the curriculum.
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            April 12, 2019

            Intellectuals, Politics, Taboos

            A Humanities in Session Lecture by Professor Patrick Baert
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            March 12, 2019

            Visualizing Baldwin

            A lecture by Warren Crichlow
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            December 13, 2018

            CHR Year-End Colloquium

            15 November 2018
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            November 29, 2018

            Reza Khota Quartet to play at Cape Town International Jazz Festival

            CHR Artist in Residence to perform at 20th annual festival
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            November 22, 2018

            Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop

            10 and 11 December 2018
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            November 19, 2018

            Reza Khota Quartet – Liminal

            25 November 2018
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            November 14, 2018

            RIVER AND REDFIN

            The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018
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            October 18, 2018

            The Subject Races: Populations, Classifications, Justice

            The workshop is therefore interested in how we might think, conceptually, historically, politically, about the figure of the subject races across these African experiences.
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            September 28, 2018

            Ife and Bilal Performance

            1 & 2 October, Theatre Arts Admin Collective
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            September 19, 2018

            The Photography of History: Sally Mann at Antietam

            Keynote Lecture at International Workshop
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            • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
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            • A listening session with Leila Bencharnia
              June 6, 2025
            • DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
              June 2, 2025
            • In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
              May 28, 2025
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