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READ MORE Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold

For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a not-for-profit gallery and collective in Cape Town, as source material for an artistic response.
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.
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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April 11, 2018

Lectures

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April 11, 2018

Collaborative Voices Part 1. Two musicians in Johannesburg in the 1980s:

Please join us for a presentation by Biddy Partridge.
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April 4, 2018

Winter School Report 2017

About one hundred graduate students from a range of South African and international partner institutions participated in the Winter School Annual and the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting at the Castle of Good Hope from the 10th to the 12th August 2017.
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February 26, 2018

Two Workshops on Missingness

A workshop hosted by: African Critical Inquiry Program (ACIP), NRF Forensic History Project and Centre for Humanities Research, UWC.
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February 22, 2018

John Mowitt

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February 22, 2018

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Visiting Scholar 2020
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February 22, 2018

Sanil V

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February 22, 2018

G Arunima

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February 16, 2018

Missing Subjects and the Subjects of Missingness

in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
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February 2, 2018

Ne’er So Much The Ape

The CHR invites you to a performance of Ne’er So Much The Ape, a work produced, directed and written by Professor Jane Taylor, and performed by Jane Taylor, Tony Miyambo and Terry Norton .
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September 26, 2017

New Jerusalem

The CHR is pleased to invite you to the opening of ‘New Jerusalem’, an exhibition of photographic work by the Visual History class of 2017.
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  • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
  • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
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  • Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
    October 22, 2025
  • Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere
    October 21, 2025
  • The Polyrhythmic Ensemble
    October 20, 2025
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