CHR Artists in Residence, Ukwanda Puppetry and Art Collective will take part in the premier tonight of their collaborative project with Pop Art, Fak’ugezi, titled The Lonely Sailor Weather Report at the National Arts Festival at 6pm.
The aim of the collaboration was to make a 5 - 8 min digital piece for The Virtual Blackout platform at the NAF. The piece will be screened tonight, Wednesday 1st July and there will be a live discussion hosted by Mwenya Kabwe.
Please share and invite people, and join the discussion by registering at:
nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/virtual-black-out-discussion-with-the-artists/
The conversation, facilitated by Mwenya Kabwe and will take the shape of a debrief starting with each team member introducing their project. The piece can be viewed for free anytime from Thursday 2nd July at the following link:
nationalartsfestival.co.za/show/virtual-black-out-experiments-in-the-future-of-form/
Our warmest congratulatations to Luyanda Nogodlwana, Sipho Ngxola and Siphokazi Mpofu of the Ukwanda Puppetry and Art Collective! ... See MoreSee Less
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In case you missed the first webinar hosted by the Other Universals Consortium, 'In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal' with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, it can be listened to and watched on the following platforms linked below:
Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/CHRFlagship/in-search-of-africas-postcolonialism-and-the-universal-with-souleyma...
YouTube: bit.ly/38ljAzI
Please see our website for more details: www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/in-search-of-africas-postcolonialism-and-the-universal/ ... See MoreSee Less
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CHR doctoral fellow, Phokeng Setai, accounts for the challenges facing seven African artists under present COVID-19 lockdown regulations, in his recent essay titled: 'Beauty in the Face of Struggle: Seven African Artists on Their Practice during Lockdown'.
thesoleadventurer.com/beauty-in-the-face-of-struggle-seven-african-artists-on-their-practice-in-l... ... See MoreSee Less
The Other Universals Webinar Series
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a series of online seminars over the next few months. These talks will draw on political and aesthetic archives of emancipatory projects of the global south. They will examine radical traditions and ideas of expansive citizenship that have emerged in the colonial and postcolonial modern. Particular focus will be on idioms of difference, which define insider and outsider, majority and minority, how these were produced, interrogated, negotiated and transcended.
Please diarize the following first three talks of the series. Interested participants will be asked to register and to read pre-circulated texts for each of the seminars.
18th June – 3 PM SAST (GMT+2)
In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal
Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Diagne is a philosopher based at Columbia University. His talk will reflect on a new co-authored dialogue between himself and the Africanist anthropologist Jean-Loup Amselle, In Search of Africa(s): Universalism and Decolonial Thought (2020).
Register before June 11th.
Please RSVP to: otheruniversalsproject@gmail.com
30th July- 3 PM SAST (GMT+2)
Worldmaking
Adom Getachew: Getachew is a political theorist at the University of Chicago. She will speak to the themes of her monograph Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination, which reconstructs an account of self-determination offered in the political thought of Black Atlantic anticolonial nationalists during the height of decolonization in the twentieth century.
Register before June 16th.
Please RSVP to: otheruniversalsproject@gmail.com
28th August – 3 PM SAST (GMT+)
Radical Disenchantment
Fadi Bardawil: Bardawil teaches Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. He will speak to the themes of his monograph Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation, which excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organisation Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara.
Register before 21stAugust.
Please RSVP to: otheruniversalsproject@gmail.com
The times for all the seminars will be:
Ethiopia @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3)
Ghana @ 13:00 GMT (UTC+0)
Uganda @ 16:00 EAT (UTC+3)
Lebanon @ 16:00 EEST (UTC+3)
Barbados @ 09:00 AST (UTC- 4)
US East Coast @ 09:00 EDT (UTC-4)
Other Universals: Thinking about Politics and Aesthetics from Postcolonial Locations, is a supra-national project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, coordinated by the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. The project creates a consortium of scholars across a number of universities, in South Africa (UWC, UCT, and Witwatersrand), Ethiopia (the University of Addis Ababa), the Middle East (American University of Beirut), the Caribbean (University of West Indies: Cave Hill) and West Africa (the University of Ghana-Legon). ... See MoreSee Less
The Laboratory of Kinetic Objects will be hosting a range of online seminars in light of the continued COVID-19 regulations. These online seminars will pursue many of the questions which we would pursue in the normal course of things; although things are anything but normal. Please see below for more details.
www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/loko-seminar-one/ ... See MoreSee Less
Dag Henrichsen is a Namibian historian and archivist based at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in Switzerland, and a part-time lecturer in African history at the Department of History, University of Basel. His positions at the BAB and University of Basel (since 1995) lead to numerous research projects, mostly with reference to Namibian history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In particular, the history of alternative Southern African archives, Southern African public visual cultures and public literacy (posters), and the history of otjiHerero-speaking and European settler elites in Namibia have been key foci of research, publications and teaching courses. Most recently, he has engaged in the “South African Empire” project on the history of South African regional expansion and knowledge production, and has also been involved with researching the history of African acoustic (sound/interview) archives.
