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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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            February 15, 2018

            Examining Malcolm X

            A public lecture by Professor Richard Benson
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            February 15, 2018

            Seminar: Julie MacArthur

            Dissident Citizens: Genealogies of Sovereignty, Violence, and Belonging along the Kenya-Somali Frontier
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            February 15, 2018

            Kronos 43: What is the university in Africa for?

            2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker
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            February 15, 2018

            Publication: Fred Bidandi

            The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi
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            February 5, 2018

            Seminar: Warrior Mothers and Immunity Moms: Motherhood, Neoliberalism and Autism

            Jigna Desai (Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota)
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            February 2, 2018

            New Research Grants Announcement

            The Centre for Humanities Research is pleased to announce the award of two new research grants, beginning in 2018, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.
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            February 2, 2018

            Publication: Suren Pillay

            Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics
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            February 2, 2018

            Ne’er So Much The Ape

            The CHR invites you to a performance of Ne’er So Much The Ape, a work produced, directed and written by Professor Jane Taylor, and performed by Jane Taylor, Tony Miyambo and Terry Norton .
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            February 2, 2018

            Ilze Wolff Nominated for Female Architect of the Year

            The CHR congratulates Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff on being shortlisted for the Women in Architecture Awards.
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            January 17, 2018

            Renosterbos: Barrydale Festival 2017

            The end of each year, for Handspring Puppet Company and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR, DST-NRF Flagship), has in the past eight years culmin
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            January 17, 2018

            Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory

            A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
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            December 7, 2017

            Hypocrisy: ‘Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d’

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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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