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Kronos: Southern African Histories 46
The CHR is excited to announce the publication of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories.
Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture
The CHR congratulates Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott on his recent publication “Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture.”
Rewriting Dusklands: The Narrative of Marilyn Dawn
The CHR congratulates Iona Gilburt, DST/NRF SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual History & Theory, on her article “Rewriting Dusklands: The Narrative of Marilyn Dawn,” published online in May 2020.
Bringing the Vietnam War Home: A Study of Photographic Media in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands
The CHR congratulates DST/NRF SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual History & Theory Iona Gilburt on the publication of “Bringing the Vietnam War Home: A Study of Photographic Media in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.”
Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Ruins from CHR Director, Professor Heidi Grunebaum, in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts published by punctum books.
The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports African Literature of Travel
The CHR congratulates director, Professor Heidi Grunebaum, on the publication of her latest chapter titled: ‘Zanzibar, circa 1996’ in The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century. The collection is co-edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.
Dreaming from the perspective of everyone
The CHR is delighted to announce the latest publication from CHR Next Gen researcher, Ross Truscott, titled ‘ Dreaming from the perspective of everyone published in Subjectivity.
The Book of the Missing
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Acting Director and Associate Professor, Heidi Grunebaum, poetry collection ‘The Book of the Missing’.
Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History (New African Histories)
The CHR congratulates Patricia Hayes, SARChI Chair in Visual History, and Gary Minkley, SARChI Chair in Social Change, on the publication of their latest co-edited book Ambivalent.
‘Why I am no longer a Non-Racialist: Identity, Citizenship, Difference’
The CHR is delighted to announce a publication from CHR Senior researcher, Suren Pillay, titled ‘Why I am no longer a Non-Racialist: Identity, Citizenship, Difference’ published with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980
The CHR congratulates, DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, Professor Patricia Hayes on the publication of her latest journal article titled ‘Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980’ in the Journal of Southern African Studies.
The Dream of the Royal Road: Psychoanalysis and the Post
The CHR is delighted to announce the latest publication from CHR Next Gen researcher, Ross Truscott, titled ‘The Dream of the Royal Road: Psychoanalysis and the Post’ published in Cultural Critique.
Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’)
The CHR congratulates post-doctoral fellow, Dr Rike Sitas, on her latest publication: ‘Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’) in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.
Neoliberalism’s last breath: thinking politico-economic well-being during and beyond COVID-19
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of honours fellow, Kiasha Naidoo’s latest journal article “ Neoliberalism’s last breath: thinking politico-economic well-being during and beyond COVID-19” in Revista de Filosofie Aplicată.
Green Screen
Green Screen, a newly launched work of creative nonfiction, follows the life of a film set created for a commercial by a team of artisans in Salt River, Cape Town, and how it morphs into a surprising series of second lives. The reader navigates this digital storymap online through a series of geolocations, visuals and text, authored by Kim Gurney and published by CHR.
The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South Africa
A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.
What is the University for?
A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
Democracy, Consensus and Citizenship
and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)
Kronos: Southern African Histories 44
Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)
Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting
Professor Premesh Lalu
New Accents on the Social
Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.
Kronos 43: What is the university in Africa for?
2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker
Publication: Fred Bidandi
The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi
Publication: Suren Pillay
Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics
Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory
A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts
by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]
Hypocrisy: ‘Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d’
by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and […]
Becoming UWC: Reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid’s legacy
Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray
Publication: Mwayi Lusaka
The CHR would like to congratulate doctoral fellow Mwayi Lusaka on the publication of his article.
Book Launch: Out of History and Unsettled History
The CHR and the Department of History, UWC invites you to a joint launch of […]
Remains of the Social
The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of […]
I See You Wins Best New South African Script
The CHR is excited to announce that I See You, a play by Mongi Mthombeni, […]
Publication: Bongani Ndhlovu
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by post-doctoral fellow Bongani Ndhlovu.
Publication: Recognition and Ethics in World Literature
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.
Empathy’s Echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.
Out of History: Reimagining South African Pasts
Edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Wits
Publication: Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication under the Migrating Violence research platform […]
Publication: Suren Pillay and Carlos Fernandes in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Researcher at the Centre […]
Igniting Conversations about Science
CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu delivered an address at the media launch of Science Forum […]
The Borderlands: Jo Ractliffe and Patricia Hayes
The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to a book launch and discussion between Jo […]
What is The University and its Worlds? Response by CHR Fellow Nehna Singh
The University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) hosted […]
Launch of the new edition of Turner’s The Eye of the Needle
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure […]
What is the university for?
By Premesh Lalu " In the wake #FeesMustFall protests that electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been […]