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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.
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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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            July 19, 2016

            For The Water: A Presentation by Sandy Spieler (Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis)

            We are excited to invite you to a presentation by visiting artist, Sandy Spieler from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis,
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            June 30, 2016

            2017 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: Secret Affinities

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            June 14, 2016

            Book Launch: Remembering Historian, Activist and Author Martin Legassick

            You are invited by Wits University Press, UWC's Centre for Humanities Research and The Book Lounge to pay tribute to the memory of eminent historian and activist Martin Legassick at the launch of his posthumously published book
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            June 10, 2016

            In Service of What? The University’s Contemporary Conundrums: Public Lecture by Catarina Antunes Gomes

            This is part of a lecture series on the Idea of the University in Africa.
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            June 9, 2016

            Reza Khota Quartet Performance at the Blah Blah Bar

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            May 25, 2016

            Encounters Festival: Films by UWC’s CHR fellows and Department of English students

            The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to announce the debut of two short films and a full length film at t
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            May 20, 2016

            Seminar: The Practice of Post-Apartheid Freedom

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            May 13, 2016

            Seminar: The Postman and the Tramp: Commitment in an Age of Cynicism

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            May 13, 2016

            Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”

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            May 10, 2016

            The University and its Worlds: A Panel Discussion with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, and David Theo Goldberg

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            May 5, 2016

            Seminar: Stasis Anxiety: Contemporary Fictions of South African ‘Waithood’

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            April 29, 2016

            Seminar: Traversing the Social

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            • NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory
            • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
            • Factory of the Arts
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            • Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
              May 21, 2025
            • Publication: Instituting Worlds
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            • Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama
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