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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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            July 17, 2024

            Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.

            The CHR welcomes Robert Trent Vinson who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Tuesday 23 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July.
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            December 12, 2023

            WRITING A DECENTERED AND ENTANGLED HISTORY OF CINEMA-GOING: Epistemological and methodological issues

            The CHR’s Fernanda Pinto de Almeida presented a paper at the Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going conference in November.
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            June 23, 2021

            DSI-NRF Early Career Doctoral Fellows: Meet the Next Generation

            The CHR’s Flagship fellowship programme for early career scholars is at the heart of a deep commitment to transforming higher education at the doctoral level in South Africa.
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            May 31, 2021

            List of Articles (2016-present)

            Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research regularly publish articles and reviews in local and international journals, applying the centre’s intellectual inquiries across a wide range of disciplines and interests.
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            August 28, 2020

            Publics and Policing: Spies, Surveillance, and Colonial Subjects in Anti-Colonial French Politics

            A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Nancy Luxon
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            August 12, 2020

            WINTER SCHOOL 2020

            Exodus, Movement, a/the People: Critical Thinking and the Collective
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            April 30, 2020

            CHR Doctoral and Masters Fellows Graduate

            We wish them every success as they pursue their advanced postgraduate and postdoctoral studies as CHR fellows
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            October 14, 2019

            Seminar: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida

            Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s 'Berlin Wall'
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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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