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READ MORE Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November

The UK-SA Chair in Digital Humanities, held by Prof. Premesh Lalu, is welcoming international scholars to Cape Town in November to attend a three-day roundtable at Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock.
READ MORE Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana

We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.
READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992).
October 8, 2019

Seminar: Mahvish Ahmed

Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan's Jabbal
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September 30, 2019

Other Lives of the Image: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory

From 4 - 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.
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September 30, 2019

Seminar: Rui Assubuji

Speculate – troubling reducibility and blackness
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September 17, 2019

Decolonial Aesthetic Force

Professor Nauman Naqvi
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September 16, 2019

Art, public space, and cities of the South

Cities in Development: Between Dystopia and Utopia
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September 2, 2019

CHR Director Hands Over the Baton

The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) congratulates Professor Premesh Lalu on his 12 years as Director of the CHR, and is excited to announce the next stage of his work with the CHR and UWC.
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August 29, 2019

CHR’s Valmont Layne Graduates with PhD focusing on Goema music

The CHR congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate, with a thesis that focuses on the history of Goema music in Cape Town and its intricate links to Cape Jazz.
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August 29, 2019

Dr Thozama April awarded The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award

The CHR congratulates Dr. April on receiving The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award.
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August 22, 2019

Seminar: Silvia Forni

Opening spaces: Of Africa, slow museology, and institutional undoing
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August 22, 2019

The South African Students’ Organisation and the Black Consciousness Legacy

Dr. Saleem Badat
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August 19, 2019

Seminar: Elizabeth Harney

We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
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August 8, 2019

Seminar: Annelize Kotze and Bongani Ndhlovu

Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities
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  • Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November
    October 14, 2025
  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
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