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READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources. READ MORE Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s)... READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
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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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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  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
  • Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom
    October 29, 2025
  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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