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            African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

            The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.             READ MORE             'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

            It’s National Archives Week.             READ MORE             CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

            The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of  Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).             READ MORE
            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 11, 2021

            Kronos: Southern African Histories 46

            The CHR is excited to announce the publication of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories.
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            March 3, 2021

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Presents:Other Lives of the Image

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar will be hosting a launch of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories, on 9 March 2021.
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            February 18, 2021

            A Conversation with Patricia Hayes

            Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
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            December 28, 2020

            SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory Review

            The SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory underwent its first-phase review in 2020 and has been awarded a second phase of funding for 2021-5 by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
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            December 8, 2020

            Re-Centring Afro Asia Conference

            The CHR presented a panel with the Centres’ Patricia Hayes, Luis Gimenez and Kiasha Naidoo, chaired by Ross Truscott discussing the possibilities and approaches to the invocation of the precolonial at the recently convened Afro-Asia Conference.
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            October 20, 2020

            Ambivalent. Photography and Visibility in African History Book Launch

            Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley Published by Ohio University Press, 2019
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            September 14, 2020

            Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History (New African Histories)

            The CHR congratulates Patricia Hayes, SARChI Chair in Visual History, and Gary Minkley, SARChI Chair in Social Change, on the publication of their latest co-edited book Ambivalent.
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            August 12, 2020

            WINTER SCHOOL 2020

            Exodus, Movement, a/the People: Critical Thinking and the Collective
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            October 15, 2019

            A Tribute to Paul Grendon

            On 7 September 2019, prolific photographer and friend of the CHR Paul Grendon passed away. Patricia Hayes offers a tribute to his life and work.
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            • African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu
              May 7, 2025
            • ‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
              April 30, 2025
            • CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age
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