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            READ MORE Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney

            Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
            READ MORE A Will for the Machine: Technology, History, and the Arts

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.
            READ MORE Centre Sogolon and Iziko Museums of South Africa MOUs

            We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape have signed two historic memoranda of understanding with Compagnie Sogolon, Bamako, Mali, and Iziko Museums of South Africa.
            February 13, 2020

            Seminar: John Ricco

            Moths to the Flame: Photography and the Capitalocene
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            February 10, 2020

            Seminar: Meleesha Bardolia

            The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
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            February 6, 2020

            Domeitta Torlasco visits the CHR

            Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.
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            January 28, 2020

            Global Apartheid: A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

            A seminar course on Global Apartheid co-taught by Professor Cesare Casarino and Dr. Ross Truscott will take place in the first semester of 2020.
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            January 28, 2020

            The Ideas and Legacy of Charlotte Maxeke

            Thozama April presented a paper at Sol Plaatje University on her research on Charlotte Maxeke on 9 January 2020.
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            December 10, 2019

            Democracy: Genealogies, Concepts, and Practices

            A conference hosted by the CHR from 17 - 18 December 2019 will explore the relationship between the genealogy, the concept and the practice of democracy.
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            December 2, 2019

            The Arts and Rethinking the Subject

            The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation Days.
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            November 25, 2019

            The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South Africa

            A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.
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            November 19, 2019

            Illumination in Dark Times: David Scott on Stuart Hall

            Professor David Scott is currently Extraordinary Professor in the CHR from 2019-2021.
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            November 18, 2019

            Suren Pillay speaks on xenophobic violence

            Professor Suren Pillay of the CHR participated in a conversation around xenophobic violence in South Africa.
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            November 18, 2019

            Professor Huey Copeland awarded Sawyer Seminars Grant

            The Centre for Humanities Research warmly congratulates Professor Huey Copeland on the award of the $225,000 Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene the international project, “The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation.”
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            November 18, 2019

            Nsima Udo Wins Africa Thesis Award

            Nsima Udo, CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory wins prestigious Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.
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            • Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney
              August 5, 2025
            • A Will for the Machine: Technology, History, and the Arts
              August 1, 2025
            • Centre Sogolon and Iziko Museums of South Africa MOUs
              July 31, 2025
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