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READ MORE Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice

Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

Updated 09 September 2025
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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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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June 20, 2019

Other lives of the image

Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory
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July 18, 2018

On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives

International Workshop on Visual History & Theory
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September 11, 2017

Workshop: the (visual) subject

International Workshop on Visual History and Theory, Cape Town, 22-23 September 2017
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May 12, 2017

Call for abstracts: the (visual) subject

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March 7, 2017

Seminar: The African Resistance Fighter Jacon Marengo

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October 14, 2016

The Borderlands: Jo Ractliffe and Patricia Hayes

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  • Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice
    September 15, 2025
  • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
    September 10, 2025
  • Forthcoming events at the CHR
    September 9, 2025
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