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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.             READ MORE             'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.             READ MORE             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).             READ MORE
            March 10, 2022

            Kerala Council for Historical Research Launches Love and Revolution

            The CHR is pleased to share that the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) will be hosting a launch for Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa.
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            March 7, 2022

            Public Lecture: Brian Friel’s Making History and Colonial Ireland

            The CHR in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA invites you to a public lecture by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
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            February 25, 2022

            Puppet Walk and Performance at Boschendal’s Plum Harvest Festival

            After the great success of the elephant puppet walk at the Boschendal Plum Harvest Festival in 2021, we will be celebrating this year’s festival with giant puppets to raise awareness of the living waters and aquatic life of our planet.  
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            February 23, 2022

            In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

            CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.
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            February 17, 2022

            Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022

            Call for applications: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences/ University of the Western Cape Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022.
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            February 9, 2022

            Book Launch with Lwando Scott

            Join CHR Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott for the launch of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge, 2022), where he will discuss his chapter “Paradoxes of Racism: Whiteness in Gay Pages Magazine.”
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            February 8, 2022

            Spotlight on Documentary

            The Documentary Film Project at the CHR is key to rethinking the humanities PhD, incorporating audio-visual content into a reimagining of an aesthetic education.
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            December 21, 2021

            Doctoral Fellowships (2022-5): New Archival Visions

            We are pleased to share that the University of the Western Cape is offering four doctoral fellowships based at the Centre for Humanities Research to commence in 2022.
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            December 21, 2021

            Call for Abstracts: Kronos Special Issue on Sound

            Kronos: Southern African Histories is seeking submissions for the 2022 special issue “Oral/Aural: Pastness and Sound as Medium and Method.”
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            December 17, 2021

            Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert Awarded Gold Medals by UWC

            The CHR warmly congratulates Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert of our partners Net vir Pret for being awarded Gold Medals by UWC.
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            December 17, 2021

            Restitution, Technics and Disciplinary Objects in the Preservation of African Music Institution Making

            Next Generation Scholar Valmont Layne examines the challenges and possibilities of music archives in Southern Africa.
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            December 15, 2021

            What A Wonderful World

            The 2021 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance centres on a family living in Barrydale and the connection a young woman has with an ancient indigenous tree, Old Gwarrie, as well as with the wonderful world she calls home.
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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.
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            • 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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