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READ MORE Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice

Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

Updated 09 September 2025
July 25, 2018

New Book by Luis Gimenez Amoros

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe
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July 18, 2018

On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives

International Workshop on Visual History & Theory
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July 18, 2018

Soft Thresholds

A Lecture by Rahul Mehrotra
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July 13, 2018

2018 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

African Critical Inquiry Programme
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July 3, 2018

Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature

Professor Baidik Bhattacharya
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June 29, 2018

New Research Collaborations

Mnemonic Solidarities, Global Humanities Institute: The Challenges of Translation
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June 29, 2018

New Work by Ukwanda Puppetry Collective and LoKO

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June 29, 2018

Public Lecture: Elizabeth Giorgis

Professor Giorgis teaches Art Theory and Criticism in the Graduate School of the College of Performing and Visual Art at the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
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June 29, 2018

New Accents on the Social

Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.
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June 28, 2018

Winter School 2018

The 2018 Winter School and Retreat held from 3 – 6 July 2018 will bring together questions of desire, technology, and practice under the title After Technology.
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June 13, 2018

Encounters Film Festival awards and special mentions

The CHR congratulates doctoral fellow Rui Assubuji on winning the Ster Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best Short Film at the 20th Encounters Film Festival.
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June 7, 2018

Life is Wonderful Film Screening

July 2018 is the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth. And the Rivonia Trial is one of the most extraordinary in legal history.
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  • Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice
    September 15, 2025
  • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
    September 10, 2025
  • Forthcoming events at the CHR
    September 9, 2025
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