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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
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            'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.
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            CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

            The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
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            March 31, 2023

            “Repair in ‘the After’: A Conversation”.

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            March 8, 2023

            A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?

            A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
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            February 23, 2023

            Race and Caste

            The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.
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            February 6, 2023

            Revisiting Sophiatown Writers: Bloke Modisane and Can Themba

            A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
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            April 4, 2022

            Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue

            The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.
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            April 1, 2022

            2022 Fellows Welcome

            Following on from the first public lecture of 2022 by Jane Ohlmeyer, the CHR welcomed Fellows to the new academic year.
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            November 15, 2021

            Curating in the Dark

            CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.
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            November 3, 2021

            Keynote Address: The Conjuncture of 1956

            Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
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            February 14, 2020

            Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation

            The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
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            July 23, 2019

            KINESIS: Of Moving and Being Moved

            Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations, in an ongoing exploration of Animation, Animism, Thing Theory, the Subject and the Object, Puppetry Arts and performance.
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            September 9, 2016

            Against the Metaphysics of Racial Difference by Siba Grovogui (Cornell University, USA)

            Siba Grovogui (Cornell University) presented a lecture titled ‘Against the Metaphysics of Racial Difference’ at On The Subject of Citizenship.
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            July 26, 2016

            On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject

            A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject
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            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
              May 7, 2025
            • ‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
              April 30, 2025
            • CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age
              April 23, 2025
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