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READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion: Twelve Theses on Thinking and Overcoming the Neocolonial in Africa

This session, titled ‘Twelve Theses on Thinking and Overcoming the Neocolonial in Africa', will be led by Michael Neocosmos. It is concerned to rethink a politics of emancipation from neocolonialism. READ MORE Technics & Urban workshop takes off

“They conduct their lives with a wry resilience. They have a front row seat to the apocalyptic – birds falling out the sky – but they go on, with a cruel optimism towards the everyday within the age of extreme climate change. To translate that into formal strategies is the work of documentary.” READ MORE Publication Announcement: New Contrast, Issue 212, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb

We are pleased to announce the publication of New Contrast’s 212th Issue, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb, which includes contributions from Premesh Lalu who holds the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics at the CHR, and Bongani Kona (Department of Historical Studies, UWC).
April 23, 2025

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 9, 2025

The Herds

We are proud to announce that Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective will be joining ‘The Herds' as they travel with life-sized animal puppets from Kinshasa to Norway.
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March 27, 2025

‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.

Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
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March 24, 2025

‘Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl

This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.
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