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February 19, 2025

UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics

The British Academy/National Research Foundation UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics, held by Professor Premesh Lalu in the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.

January 13, 2025

Professor Premesh Lalu Awarded UK-SA Bilateral Research Chair in Digital Humanities

The CHR is delighted to announce that Professor Premesh Lalu has been awarded the British Academy/NRF UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.

August 26, 2024

CHR delegation visit

In August 2024, a CHR delegation met with leadership and Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues at Sol Plaatje University to discuss future collaborations and joint research initiatives.

November 7, 2023

Ghent Africa Platform Lecture in Honour of Nelson Mandela 2023: The future of post-apartheid education

We are pleased to announce the 2023 Ghent Africa Platform Lecture by Premesh Lalu in Honour of Nelson Mandela, which will take place at the Greatmore Humanities Hub on 13 November 2023.

October 6, 2023

CHR Winter School, 2023: ‘The After’.

The CHR hosted its annual Winter School in August at the Greatmore Humanities Hub in Woodstock, Cape Town.

July 20, 2023

Recording: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid

The recording for a book launch of Premesh Lalu’s Undoing Apartheid is now available via the below link.

June 5, 2023

Thinking Across Hemispheres

A Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) Lecture

May 29, 2023

Undoing Apartheid

The CHR's Premesh Lalu’s much anticipated new book, Undoing Apartheid, appears in November 2022 with Polity Press. The book responds to the CHR’s inaugural question of the meaning of post-apartheid freedom, especially through sustained research projects on aesthetic education, the becoming technical of the human, and communicating the humanities

March 23, 2023

RECORDING: Undoing Apartheid, book launch and panel discussion.

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI), University of Toronto, held an online book launch and panel discussion of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Apartheid, on Tuesday, 14 March.

January 23, 2023

Book Launch: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for the book launch of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Aprtheid.

July 13, 2022

Durban International Film Festival: The Double Futures of Athlone

Premesh Lalu’s documentary film, The Double Future’s of Athlone, which was sold out at the Encounters documentary film festival in Cape Town and Johannesburg, will be screened online at the Durban International Film Festival from July 21-30, 2022.

June 22, 2022

Beyond Nostalgia: Reimagining Post-Apartheid Freedom

Founding CHR director and filmmaker Premesh Lalu will be in conversation with Rashid Lombard, Jayson King, Sylvia Mndunyelwa and Dinga Sikwebu about his new film The Double Futures of Athlone at the Encounters South African Documentary International Film Festival. The panel will be moderated by Valmont Layne.