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            DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.

            The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and...
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            In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            Artists Forum with Fatima Dike

            The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.
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            December 21, 2021

            Doctoral Fellowships (2022-5): New Archival Visions

            We are pleased to share that the University of the Western Cape is offering four doctoral fellowships based at the Centre for Humanities Research to commence in 2022.
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            December 17, 2021

            Restitution, Technics and Disciplinary Objects in the Preservation of African Music Institution Making

            Next Generation Scholar Valmont Layne examines the challenges and possibilities of music archives in Southern Africa.
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            September 16, 2021

            Stealing Time

            Join Prof. Patricia Hayes for “Photographs and the Long Inception of Colonialism in Southern Angola,” a lecture hosted by the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC) at the University of Virginia.
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            September 15, 2021

            Archival Futures and Research: Preservation, Access and UWC’s Digital Infrastructure

            Prof. Patricia Hayes and Dr Valmont Layne investigate how UWC can revitalise its archival holdings for preservation, teaching, research access, and public programmes.
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            • DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
              June 2, 2025
            • In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
              May 28, 2025
            • Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
              May 21, 2025
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