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READ MORE Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice

Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project. READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

Updated 09 September 2025
September 16, 2019

Art, public space, and cities of the South

Cities in Development: Between Dystopia and Utopia
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July 26, 2019

Seminar: Okechukwu Nwafor

Funeral Poster and Pre-Funeral Visual Economy in southeastern Nigeria
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May 14, 2019
Anas is watching’, mural by Nico Wayo. Accra, Ghana. Photo: K. Gurney

From platform to plotform: Artistic thinking in spaces of flux

This session shares work in progress on an African Centre for Cities (ACC) research project led by Kim Gurney called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs
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May 13, 2019

Seminar: Willemien Froneman

Nico Carstens, Disavowal, and the Perverted Mind of Apartheid
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February 15, 2019

Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom

The Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) Africa Workshop 2019 was hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with scholars from the CHR attending.
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November 29, 2018

Re-Imagining as Destruction and Creation

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to speak at Norval Foundation Symposium
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September 20, 2018

Public Art Agency Sweden

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to give opening talk
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  • Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice
    September 15, 2025
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    September 10, 2025
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