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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
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            'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.
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            CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

            The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
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            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 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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            October 22, 2024

            A conversation on biographies between Margaret Kelleher and Ciraj Rassool

            On Thursday 31 October, the CHR will be hosting a conversation on biographies between Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin) and Ciraj Rassool (UWC) under the auspices of the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair (CMMR).
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            October 8, 2024

            What does apartheid mean for Israel: Reflections in a time of genocide

            This Humanities in Session Series seminar is based on Tareq Baconi’s ongoing research into the conflict in Palestine/Israel.
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            October 4, 2024

            Public Arts Museums and their futures

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with Art Africa.
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            July 31, 2024

            Legitimising Theatre in the Postcolony: Six Myths

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            July 4, 2024

            2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names

            We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in African University Museums.
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            June 28, 2024

            Imperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati in conversation with Candice Jansen (New Archival Visions Digital Curatorial Fellow).
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            April 4, 2024

            Mine Mine Mine:

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott.
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            March 13, 2024

            Inaugural Seminar for the New Ecologies of the Subject research platform

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            March 8, 2024

            Imagining futures: Conversations from Ireland to South Africa

            This event is scheduled to take place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art on March 13, 2024, as part of the Embassy’s St. Patrick’s Day programme.
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            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
              May 7, 2025
            • ‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
              April 30, 2025
            • CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age
              April 23, 2025
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