Visual HIstory team
Both the review and the rating assessment praised the consolidation of the research field effected by the Chair and her team in this CHR research platform. These achievements are due to advanced postgraduate study, international workshops with leading scholars, and research publications. Among the latter, the co-edited volume Ambivalent. Photography and Visibility in African History was singled out for special praise because it refigures the terms of global debate around photography from an African position. This has been followed by the Special Issue of the journal Kronos (Volume 46 of 2020) foregrounding the latest research in African visual history presented at the 2019 international workshop ‘Other Lives of the Image’ hosted by the SARChI Chair.
The SARChI Chair is also pleased to announce the graduation of two doctoral fellows in Visual History & Theory, Pam Sykes and Rui Assubuji, and one MA fellow Retha Ferguson (cum laude) in 2020. The CHR warmly congratulates Patricia Hayes on this major recognition of her research and academic leadership as the SARChI Chair holder.
Zandi Sherman (Rutgers) makes a point about her paper at the 2020 African Critical Inquiry Programme Workshop. The workshop, Rethinking Resilience, was originally scheduled to take place in Makhanda, South Africa in March. After the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, it was rescheduled as a virtual Zoom workshop held in October. Screenshot by Corinne A. Kratz.
In line with protocols introduced by government towards the prevention and containment of the COVID-19 virus, the CHR suspended its public events, seminars, and general fellowship program until further notice. We wish CHR fellows, students, artists, colleagues and friends, as well as our partners and funders in South Africa and across the world much strength and compassion in these difficult times.