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READ MORE Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
READ MORE The Polyrhythmic Ensemble

The Polyrhythmic Ensemble was formed in 2023 with the aim of creating new works based around research into contrapuntal and polyrhythmic African music.
READ MORE Troubling the divide: Jazz, History and the new African

An interview with Lindelwa Dalamba
July 18, 2018

Michael Neocosmos

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July 18, 2018

Johannes Fabian

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June 29, 2018

Public Lecture: Elizabeth Giorgis

Professor Giorgis teaches Art Theory and Criticism in the Graduate School of the College of Performing and Visual Art at the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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June 28, 2018

Winter School 2018

The 2018 Winter School and Retreat held from 3 – 6 July 2018 will bring together questions of desire, technology, and practice under the title After Technology.
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June 6, 2018

African Ethnographies

2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop
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June 1, 2018

Louis Moholo in conversation

CHR will be hosting a public conversation with jazz drumming great Louis Moholo at the Guga S’thebe Community Centre in Langa at 6.30 pm on June 8th 2018
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May 11, 2018

Sound Workshop with Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi

23 May 2018 at 1pm
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May 11, 2018

Public Lecture: South Africa’s Hosting of the 2018 BRICS Summit

Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies
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May 10, 2018

Political Theory Reading Workshops

The Wiredu-Ezu Debate and Philosophy and “Real” Politics
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May 3, 2018

CHCI Africa Workshop Addis 2019

Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
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April 19, 2018

The 2017 annual meeting of the CHCI hosted by the UWC Centre for Humanities Research

The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) explored the multiple ways in which improvisation has enabled and facilitated the study of the humanities, not least in times of great social upheaval.
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April 17, 2018

Workshop: Migrants, Markets and the Modalities of Rule

The Migrating Violence Research Platform of the Centre for Humanities Research presents a workshop on Migrants, Markets and the Modalities of Rule.
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  • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
  • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
  • Factory of the Arts
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  • Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere
    October 21, 2025
  • The Polyrhythmic Ensemble
    October 20, 2025
  • Troubling the divide: Jazz, History and the new African
    October 20, 2025
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