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            Tectonic: TOMBWA - A solo performance by Victor Gama

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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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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            October 8, 2019

            Seminar: Mahvish Ahmed

            Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan's Jabbal
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            September 30, 2019

            Other Lives of the Image: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory

            From 4 - 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.
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            September 30, 2019

            Seminar: Rui Assubuji

            Speculate – troubling reducibility and blackness
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            September 17, 2019

            Decolonial Aesthetic Force

            Professor Nauman Naqvi
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            September 16, 2019

            Art, public space, and cities of the South

            Cities in Development: Between Dystopia and Utopia
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            September 16, 2019

            Seminar: Mwayi Lusaka

            Heritage of Diplomacy Or ‘Scottish Exceptionalism?’:The Memory of David Livingstone and Malawi – Scotland Relations
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            September 2, 2019

            CHR Director Hands Over the Baton

            The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) congratulates Professor Premesh Lalu on his 12 years as Director of the CHR, and is excited to announce the next stage of his work with the CHR and UWC.
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            August 29, 2019

            CHR’s Valmont Layne Graduates with PhD focusing on Goema music

            The CHR congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate, with a thesis that focuses on the history of Goema music in Cape Town and its intricate links to Cape Jazz.
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            August 29, 2019

            Dr Thozama April awarded The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award

            The CHR congratulates Dr. April on receiving The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award.
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            August 22, 2019

            Seminar: Silvia Forni

            Opening spaces: Of Africa, slow museology, and institutional undoing
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            August 22, 2019

            The South African Students’ Organisation and the Black Consciousness Legacy

            Dr. Saleem Badat
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            August 19, 2019

            Seminar: Elizabeth Harney

            We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
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            • Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama
              May 16, 2025
            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
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            • ‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
              April 30, 2025
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