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            February 23, 2025

            Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.

            The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
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            August 25, 2023

            Open Book Festival: Lwando Scott in conversation with Zoey Black, Maneo Mohale and Manila von Teez.

            The CHR’s Lwando Scott will be participating in this year’s Open Book Festival on 10 September 2023.
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            July 24, 2023

            Transformative Constitutionalism: Afrika Focus, Vol 36

            The latest Afrika Focus is now available. Edited by the CHR’s, Maurits van Bever Donker and Lwando Scott, this volume focuses on the question of transformative constitutionalism.
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            June 24, 2022

            Trans-formative Consitutionalism

            At the heart of Trans-formative Constitutionalism is the idea of change. In post-1994 South Africa we are grappling with disagreements concerning the changes that have come, and/or the radical structural changes that have not yet been realised, by or through the South African Constitution.
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            April 20, 2022

            Call for Workshop Proposals: Transformative Constitutionalism

            The CHR Transformative Constitutionalism project invites you to submit a one-page proposal for the upcoming virtual workshop “What human is imagined in the ‘Human Rights’ contained in the South African Constitution.”
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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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            February 9, 2022

            Book Launch with Lwando Scott

            Join CHR Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott for the launch of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge, 2022), where he will discuss his chapter “Paradoxes of Racism: Whiteness in Gay Pages Magazine.”
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            June 21, 2021

            Book Chapters List

            Contributions by Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research to edited volumes represent a diverse engagement with the centre’s academic inquiries. The following list shows publications from the latter years of the centre’s output.
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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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            May 21, 2021

            Ambivalent at Jacana’s Virtual Book Theatre

            Ambivalent will be featured at Jacana Media’s Don’t Shut Up virtual book theatre on Sunday, 23 May 2021.
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            March 30, 2021

            The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures

            Join CHR Next Generation Scholar Dr Lwando Scott in conversation about The Possibilities and Intimacies of Queer African Screen Cultures, a special issue of the Journal of African Cultural Studies, on 5 April 2021.
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            August 14, 2020

            The Black Aquatic: On Water, Art and Black Movement

            A Winter School webinar with Professor Rinaldo Walcott
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            The CHR and UWC in conjunction with @EncountersDoc will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at Iyatsiba Lab, Centre for Humanities and Research ,66 Greatmore Street(entrance on Regent Str) Woodstock, Cape Town Mon 23 June from 10:00 until 15:30Tues 24 June 2025 from 13:30 -16:00 For more info: www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/encounters-film-festival-highlights-the-walk-and-the-shadow-scholars ... See MoreSee Less

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            Happy to announce our second instalment of the Artist Forum Shakespear to GazaDate: Friday 27 June 2025Time: 11:00am - 1:00pmVenue: The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab,66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock(enter via Regent St)More info and RSVP details: www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/artists-forum-shakespeare-to-gaza/ ... See MoreSee Less

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            Throwback to the Sound Working Group listening session last Sunday with composer ,sound artist,and textile reseacher Leila Bencharnia. @leila.rufus ... See MoreSee Less

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