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            Global dis:connect Academic Advisory Board announcement

            We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect  based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
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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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            March 8, 2023

            A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?

            A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
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            March 2, 2023

            CHR Winter School, 2022: On the question of the minor
            A reading by Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo

            The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.
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            March 1, 2023

            Publication announcements: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott

            The CHR is delighted to highlight recent publications by Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott.
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            February 23, 2023

            Race and Caste

            The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.
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            February 6, 2023

            Revisiting Sophiatown Writers: Bloke Modisane and Can Themba

            A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
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            January 23, 2023

            MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”

            This production premieres at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.
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            January 3, 2023

            Saleem Badat

            Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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            Michael Aird

            University of California, Berkeley
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            Sara Guyer

            University of California, Berkeley
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            January 3, 2023

            Jordache A. Ellapen

            University of Toronto
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            January 3, 2023

            Huey Copeland

            Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
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            January 3, 2023

            Prof.Kass Banning

            Cinema Studies Institute, University of Toronto
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            • Global dis:connect Academic Advisory Board announcement
              June 9, 2025
            • 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
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