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READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992).
READ MORE In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile

Contemporary Black female artists have reclaimed the everyday labor and domestic motions women have historically performed, as artistic gestures in their own right. For example, the ceramic and bronze sculptures of the African-American artist Simone Leigh have referenced vernacular processes like washing chores and needlework.
READ MORE Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
April 23, 2025

Africa, Philosophy and the Image

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 3, 2025

Waterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you.
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March 12, 2025

Nikolai Brandes

Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
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March 11, 2025

Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon

Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.
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March 11, 2025

Erich Hörl

Leuphana University, Lüneburg
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March 10, 2025

Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.

CHR Extraordinary Professor, Erich Hörl, will be giving a series of seminars and a public lecture in March at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
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February 27, 2025

Freedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the Making of Worlds

Hosted by The Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC)
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February 23, 2025

Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.

The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
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February 11, 2025

Film screening: James Joyce’s Ulysses by Adam Low

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening James Joyce's ULYSSES  (88 minutes, UK, 2022) by Adam Low on Thursday 27 February 2025, followed by a Q&A with the director.
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January 10, 2025

Minister De Lille joins Net Vir Pret and the CHR at Barrydale’s annual Reconciliation Day Festival.

The CHR was delighted to host Minister De Lille, at the annual Reconciliation Day Festival in Barrydale.
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December 3, 2024

Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 November 2024

The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape.
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November 28, 2024

Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
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  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 10, 2025
  • Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
    October 10, 2025
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