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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.
April 2, 2018

Seminar: Valmont Layne

Tem Hawker, Yakhal Inkomo and the sentimental 'avant-garde: Revisiting Cape jazz's sonic archive'
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March 26, 2018

Seminar: Redi Koobak

Seminar: Gender, Nation and War Art: Rethinking Artistic Responses to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan
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March 7, 2018

Seminar: Kate Skinner

Abolde Safui
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March 2, 2018

Seminar: Thozama April

Engaging the Rounds of Charlotte Maxeke’s Becoming
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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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September 21, 2017

Seminar: G. Arunima

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar G. Arunima (Centre for Women’s […]
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September 15, 2017

Seminar: Jonathan Cane

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
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September 8, 2017

Seminar: Fernando Rosa

Travelling Spirits and the Civilisation de l’universel: Apotropaic Writing and the Myth of Disenchantment
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September 4, 2017

Seminar: Ross Truscott

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Ross Truscott (Centre for Humanities […]
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August 22, 2017

Seminar: Digital Doomsday

A perspective from the pathology called Europe
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June 9, 2017

Seminar: Premesh Lalu

The Practice of Post-apartheid Freedom
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June 2, 2017

Justice After Genocide: Namibia, Germany and Colonial Amnesia

Reinhart Kössler, a German scholar who studies the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the genocide
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  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
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