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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While an elusive concept, neoliberalism has come to denote a set of economic policies and principles grounded on individualism, market deregulation, and extensive privatisation.
The CHR warmly congratulates PhD Fellow, Medina Moosa, for being awarded the Next Generation in Social Sciences in Africa fellowship with the Social Science Research council based in New York. Medina was selected for this prestigious award from over 350 applicants based in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and South Africa.
The Other Universals consortium will be running a 7 week writing workshop, facilitated by Anais Nony for Masters and PhD students working on their thesis. Further details on the poster attached.
The CHR would like to congratulate Lebogang Mokwena and Arnaldo Caliche for being accepted to participate in the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS), South African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR), writing workshop that will take place in Lusaka from August 15-1.
On the Subject of Citizenship: Late colonialism in the world today brings together reflections on citizenship, political violence, race, ethnicity and gender, by some of the most critical voices of our times.
The CHR's Premesh Lalu’s much anticipated new book, Undoing Apartheid, appears in November 2022 with Polity Press. The book responds to the CHR’s inaugural question of the meaning of post-apartheid freedom, especially through sustained research projects on aesthetic education, the becoming technical of the human, and communicating the humanities
The DSI and NRF are pleased to announce a call for new applications for DSI-NRF Postgraduate Student Funding for the academic year 2024. All continuing students who are eligible for a second or third year of funding must submit a Progress Report and not a new application.
The CHR warmly congratulates Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppetry Company on receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto.