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            Publication: Instituting Worlds

            The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.
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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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            May 11, 2018

            Sound Workshop with Dr. Thokozani Mhlambi

            23 May 2018 at 1pm
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            May 11, 2018

            Public Lecture: South Africa’s Hosting of the 2018 BRICS Summit

            Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies
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            May 10, 2018

            CANCELLED Jon Soske: Book Launch Invitation

            Join the NRF-DST Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, University of the Western Cape and Wits University Press for the launch of historian, Jon Soske’s
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            May 10, 2018

            Dark Things

            A collaborative project featuring CHR Artist in Residence Reza Khota
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            May 10, 2018

            Political Theory Reading Workshops

            The Wiredu-Ezu Debate and Philosophy and “Real” Politics
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            May 3, 2018

            Report of the Activities of the Chair of LoKO in the first quarter

            The most recent very significant threshold to note is that the Greatmore building in Woodstock, which will house the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects, has finally...
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            May 3, 2018

            CHR fellow invited to judge at Thola Drama Festival

            This past month the CHR's MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand.
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            May 3, 2018

            2018 International Roundtable at Institute for Global Citizenship (Macalester College)

            Plenary Speaker Professor Premesh Lalu
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            May 3, 2018

            CHCI Africa Workshop Addis 2019

            Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
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            April 24, 2018

            A conversation with Ukwanda Puppet Artists from South Africa

            Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective was developed through the mentorship of Handspring Puppet Company.
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            April 23, 2018

            Seminar: Jacob Cloete

            The pre-circulated paper for this seminar is accompanied by a short documentary by Jacob Cloete.
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            April 19, 2018

            The 2017 annual meeting of the CHCI hosted by the UWC Centre for Humanities Research

            The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) explored the multiple ways in which improvisation has enabled and facilitated the study of the humanities, not least in times of great social upheaval.
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            • Publication: Instituting Worlds
              May 20, 2025
            • 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
              May 7, 2025
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