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READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Tshegofatso Moeng

This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director. READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion: ‘Returning Transitions: Memories of Persistent Crises in South African and Russian Writing’, with Ksenia Robbe

In this seminar, Ksenia Robbe present the key questions and theoretical propositions concerning the possibility of reading comparatively and connectively memories of the post-apartheid and post-Soviet ‘transitions’ in contemporary South African and Russian writing. READ MORE Archive Lab: 'Archiving Resistance: The VNS/AFRAVISION Collective', with Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
October 25, 2023

Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair: Professor Ruth Barton

The CHR welcomes Ruth Barton as a visiting professor on the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture and documentary film screening about the legacy of the Irish Troubles on film. This lecture will be followed by an afternoon discussion on Irish cinema and ecocriticism.
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August 10, 2023

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture:
Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: The Border in Ireland as unconcluded space, by Prof Eoin McNamee

The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
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March 16, 2023

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023

H.E. Fionnuala Gilsenan, Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, and the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Professor Tyrone Pretorius, are proud to announce the launch of UWC’s Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair at the Centre for Humanities Research.
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