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            Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024 The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape.... READ MORE Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.... READ MORE Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects. The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert.... READ MORE
            October 22, 2024

            A conversation on biographies between Margaret Kelleher and Ciraj Rassool

            On Thursday 31 October, the CHR will be hosting a conversation on biographies between Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin) and Ciraj Rassool (UWC) under the auspices of the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair (CMMR).
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            October 8, 2024

            What does apartheid mean for Israel: Reflections in a time of genocide

            This Humanities in Session Series seminar is based on Tareq Baconi’s ongoing research into the conflict in Palestine/Israel.
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            September 23, 2024

            Journal Launch: God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, Kronos, No.50, 2024.

            The launch of the latest edition of Kronos, ‘God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’, takes place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Thursday 3 October 2024.
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            July 31, 2024

            Legitimising Theatre in the Postcolony: Six Myths

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            June 28, 2024

            Imperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati in conversation with Candice Jansen (New Archival Visions Digital Curatorial Fellow).
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            April 4, 2024

            Mine Mine Mine:

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott.
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            March 13, 2024

            Inaugural Seminar for the New Ecologies of the Subject research platform

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            March 8, 2024

            Imagining futures: Conversations from Ireland to South Africa

            This event is scheduled to take place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art on March 13, 2024, as part of the Embassy’s St. Patrick’s Day programme.
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            February 26, 2024

            Justice and Sacrifice in the myths of Iphigenia, Antigone, and Medea

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            April 26, 2023

            Patricia Parker visit

            In April, the CHR had the pleasure of hosting Prof Patricia Parker (University of North Carolina) for a series of seminars and discussions in Cape Town.
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            August 25, 2022

            The Hottest August

            The CHR is co-hosting with DocFilmSA's docLOVE free screenings program a film screening and discussion of The Hottest August, Wednesday 31 August 2022 at 18:00pm screening at the Bertha House in Cape Town.
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            August 19, 2022

            Legacies of Enslavement in the Cape: Black Life in the Archive

            Join us for Seminar 559 of the South African Contemporary History and Humanities seminar with Efuah Prah.
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            • Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
              December 3, 2024
            • Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
              November 28, 2024
            • Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects.
              November 19, 2024
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