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READ MORE Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana

We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.
READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992).
READ MORE In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile

Contemporary Black female artists have reclaimed the everyday labor and domestic motions women have historically performed, as artistic gestures in their own right. For example, the ceramic and bronze sculptures of the African-American artist Simone Leigh have referenced vernacular processes like washing chores and needlework.
October 11, 2018

Decolonization and the Aesthetic Cold War: Towards an Intellectual History

Seminar by Professor Peter Kalliney
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October 4, 2018

Seminar: Doug Mulliken

Human Violence and Technological Memory
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September 28, 2018

Seminar: Ciraj Rassool

The politics of non-racialism in South Africa
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September 20, 2018

Seminar: Clémentine Deliss

Manifesto for the rights of access to colonial collections sequestered in Western Europe
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September 14, 2018

Seminar: Stephanie Vos

Exile and Migration: Performing Connections through the Metaphor of the Train
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August 22, 2018

Seminar: Swati Arora

Left to ‘biyaasi number’: Janam, Street Theatre and Urban Space in Delhi
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August 7, 2018

Seminar: Christos Lynteris

Plague and the Emergence of Epidemic Photography
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July 26, 2018

Seminar: Kara Moskowitz

Decolonization, Development and the Making of Kenya
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May 21, 2018

Seminar: Sarah Godsell

“What is the point?” Potentials of Decolonising History: in teacher education spaces, and school classrooms
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May 11, 2018

Seminar: Aidan Erasmus

Dispatch: Eduction, Sound, and the Senses
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April 23, 2018

Seminar: Jacob Cloete

The pre-circulated paper for this seminar is accompanied by a short documentary by Jacob Cloete.
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April 9, 2018

Seminar: Armelle Gaulier

The Moppie Songs of the Colored Populations of Cape Town: Music and the Process of Creolization (South Africa)
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  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
  • In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile
    October 10, 2025
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