Seminar Programme
Contemporary History and Humanities Seminars
Established in 1993, the weekly South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar is the longest running seminar series in Southern Africa and continues to draw together faculty, graduate students and research fellows from across the Faculty of Arts at UWC and elsewhere. The seminar series, which hosts local and international academics, was initiated by the Institute for Historical Research (IHR) and the History Dept at UWC. Initially the series was known as the Contemporary History Seminar. In 2006, however, when the IHR became the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), the word ‘Humanities, was added.
The seminar series, which reflects a growing national and international reputation, is organised around a pre-circulated paper with an appointed respondent. The seminar series has been convened and chaired by Colin Bundy, Leslie Witz, Andrew Bank, Ciraj Rassool, Gary Minkley and Premesh Lalu. The current chair (2015) is Particia Hayes.
Seminars
Global Apartheid: A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty
A seminar course on Global Apartheid co-taught by Professor Cesare Casarino and Dr. Ross Truscott will take place in the first semester of 2020.
Seminar: Meleesha Bardolia
The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
Seminar: Sam Longford
Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial
Seminar: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida
Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s ‘Berlin Wall’
Seminar: Mahvish Ahmed
Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan’s Jabbal
Seminar: Elizabeth Harney
We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
Seminar: Annelize Kotze and Bongani Ndhlovu
Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities
Seminar: Okechukwu Nwafor
Funeral Poster and Pre-Funeral Visual Economy in southeastern Nigeria
Seminar: Claudia Gastrow
The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Aesthesis and Political Belonging
Seminar: Raquel Schefer
The Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary Mozambique: Ruy Guerra’s “Mueda, Memória e Massacre”
Seminar: Kass Banning
John Akomfrah’s Purple: Notes Towards Deciphering Habitus Beyond A Planetary Sublime
Seminar: Philipp Schorch
Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post) colonial exhibitions, and the ‘cold odyssey’ of Pacific objects between East and West.
Decolonization and the Aesthetic Cold War: Towards an Intellectual History
Seminar by Professor Peter Kalliney
Seminar: Clémentine Deliss
Manifesto for the rights of access to colonial collections sequestered in Western Europe
Seminar: Swati Arora
Left to ‘biyaasi number’: Janam, Street Theatre and Urban Space in Delhi
Seminar: Stephanie Vos
Exile and Migration: Performing Connections through the Metaphor of the Train
Seminar: Sarah Godsell
“What is the point?” Potentials of Decolonising History: in teacher education spaces, and school classrooms
Seminar: Jacob Cloete
The pre-circulated paper for this seminar is accompanied by a short documentary by Jacob Cloete.
Seminar: Armelle Gaulier
The Moppie Songs of the Colored Populations of Cape Town: Music and the Process of Creolization (South Africa)
Seminar: Valmont Layne
Tem Hawker, Yakhal Inkomo and the sentimental ‘avant-garde: Revisiting Cape jazz’s sonic archive’
Seminar: Redi Koobak
Seminar: Gender, Nation and War Art: Rethinking Artistic Responses to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan
Seminar: Julie MacArthur
Dissident Citizens: Genealogies of Sovereignty, Violence, and Belonging along the Kenya-Somali Frontier
Seminar: G. Arunima
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Ross Truscott
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
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
Seminar: Natasha Vally
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Roger Levine
Lived Racism in Segregation-era South Africa: a research agenda and a case study
Seminar: Todd Cleveland
Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of History, University of the Western Cape South […]
Seminar: Women Miners and Mining Spaces
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Reading Group and Seminar with Prof. Carlos Forment
Citizenship and Justice: Rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy.
Seminar: Cleaning the Slate of Distrust
The Vance Mission and the (Dis-)appearance of the ‘Amnesty Question’ on/from the Agenda of the Transitional Negotiations and in internal ANC
Nigel Gibson Seminar on Fanon
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
“Freedom Within the Walls:” Thomas Mott Osborne’s Participatory Panopticon
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Hostile Visual Encounters
Seminar in Contemporary History & Humanities Special Seminar Hostile visual encounters: fighting to control photographic […]
Seminar: The African Resistance Fighter Jacon Marengo
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: State-Building and Techno-politics in Somaliland
South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
Global Apartheid Course at the CHR
A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty February – May 2017 Centre for Humanities Research Professor Cesare […]
Video: State Capture?
Earlier this year we had an important Local Government Election. Now, as we debate how […]
Seminar: State Capture?
The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities […]
Seminar: Education or State Politics? – Elizabeth Giorgis
Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Addis Ababa University Dullah Omar Centre for […]
Joint Seminar: Jennifer Tucker and George Agbo
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by George Agbo: The Technology of Visual Digital Activism
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by Shari Eppel: Bones In The Forest
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]
Mothers’ pensions and the ‘civilised’ black poor: the racialised provision of child maintenance grants, 1921-1940
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by Bongani Ndhlovu: ‘Apartheid’s Golden Age’
Reconnoitring alternative forms of resistance to apartheid South Africa, c1966-1979
Seminar by Janeke Thumbran: “Sisters are Building it for Themselves:”
Architecture, Self-Reliance and Trusteeship at the University of Pretoria, 1943 to present times
Seminar: The Making of MK: Whose Violence & to What End? The Debates of 1960–1 – Paul S. Landau
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty
DST NRF Flagship Next Generation Researcher Dr. Maurits Van Bever Donker will be co-teaching a […]
Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau
The CHR DST/NRF Flagship in Critical Thought in African Humanities and the Women’s and Gender […]
Seminar: Portugal’s Photographic Play: Drew Thompson
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
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
Seminar: The Practice of Post-Apartheid Freedom
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”
Other Universals presents a public lecture by Dr. Aaron Kamugisha (Cultural Studies, University of the […]
Seminar: Stasis Anxiety: Contemporary Fictions of South African ‘Waithood’
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: The Postman and the Tramp: Commitment in an Age of Cynicism
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Traversing the Social
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]
Seminar: Mueda Massacre: The Musical Archive
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: The Varieties of Secular Experience: Magical Thinking, Occult Economies, and Puppetry
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]
Panel Discussion on Richard Turner’s Eye of the Needle
The CHR DST NRF Flagship for Critical Thought in African Humanities and the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you
Seminar by Heidi Grunebaum: “No Consolation:The Poetics of Lament and the Insistence of Complicity”
Senior Researcher in the Flagship for Critical Thought in African Humanities Heidi Grunebaum will deliver […]
Seminar: Exalted Faces and Awkward Bodies: ‘Third Wave’ of Protests in Africa, Political Imaginations and Global Sociology
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History ( UWC) South African Contemporary History and […]
Seminar: Emerging Possiblities – Diaspora engagement and the global initiative on Somali refugees
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History (UWC) Speakers: Dianna Shandy (Center for Integrative […]
Seminar: Epistemological restlessness. Trajectories in and out of history
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History ( UWC) South African Contemporary History and […]
