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READ MORE Archive Lab: 'Archiving Resistance: The VNS/AFRAVISION Collective', with Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
READ MORE Winter School 2026: Liminalities: Thinking, Thresholds

Liminality has been theorised as a condition of transition. Whether in its original anthropological form as a movement from one state to another through a rite of passage or in its postcolonial rendering via Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity, liminality has come to mark a condition of being “not quite” and “not yet.”
READ MORE Call for Papers: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, October 2026

Application deadline: 17 July
August 10, 2023

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture:
Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: The Border in Ireland as unconcluded space, by Prof Eoin McNamee

The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
August 1, 2023

Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency

The CHR, in collaboration with Berlin based partners, Akademie der Künste and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst are pleased to announce the names of artists selected from the April 2023 Oscillations Open Call for Residency. For this call, the jury reviewed 80 applications.
July 19, 2023

Visual History and Theory Workshop
Power Remaking selves, archives, environments

This year’s NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place between 27-28 July. It coalesces around the title, ‘Power: Remaking selves, archives, environments’, and will include a keynote by Leigh Raiford who is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
July 16, 2023

The Inaugural lecture of the Charlotte Maxeke – Mary Robinson Research Chair by Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defense, Micheál Martin.

This lecture will inaugurate the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and open an exhibition on 25 years of the Good Friday Agreements between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.