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            Artists Forum with Fatima Dike

            The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.             READ MORE             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.             READ MORE             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.             READ MORE
            August 29, 2016

            Seminar by Janeke Thumbran: “Sisters are Building it for Themselves:”

            Architecture, Self-Reliance and Trusteeship at the University of Pretoria, 1943 to present times
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            August 19, 2016

            Seminar: The Making of MK: Whose Violence & to What End? The Debates of 1960–1 – Paul S. Landau

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            August 17, 2016

            Die Name Wat Ons Gee/The Names That We Give

            2015 Barrydale Festival with Net Vir Pret and Handspring Puppet Company
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            August 12, 2016

            Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes

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            August 12, 2016

            Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

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            August 10, 2016

            The CHR welcomes Visiting Scholars Professor Paul Landau and Dr Emily Landau

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            August 10, 2016

            A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau

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            August 5, 2016

            Exhibition Launch: USAKOS: Photographs beyond Ruins

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            July 26, 2016

            On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject

            A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject
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            July 22, 2016

            Podcast: Timothy Campbell: The Generosity of the Mancus: Biopower, Neoliberal Gifts and Comedy

            Professor Timothy Campbell (Cornell University, New York) delivered a lecture on the 16th of October 2014.
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            July 22, 2016
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            Seminar: The Performance of Race: Passing-Out Parades, Street Soccer, the ‘Civilized Body’, and the Creation of the ‘Perfect Other’ (c. 1940s-1960s)

            Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Virgil Slade (Department of History
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            July 19, 2016

            Transitional Justice in the Making: The Case of Colombia and Lessons from South Africa

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            • Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
              May 21, 2025
            • Publication: Instituting Worlds
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