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            A listening session with Leila Bencharnia

            The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.             READ MORE             DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.

            The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.             READ MORE             In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.             READ MORE
            August 12, 2016

            Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes

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            August 12, 2016

            Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty

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            August 10, 2016

            A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau

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            August 2, 2016

            Seminar: Portugal’s Photographic Play: Drew Thompson

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            July 22, 2016
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            Seminar: The Performance of Race: Passing-Out Parades, Street Soccer, the ‘Civilized Body’, and the Creation of the ‘Perfect Other’ (c. 1940s-1960s)

            Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Virgil Slade (Department of History
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            May 20, 2016

            Seminar: The Practice of Post-Apartheid Freedom

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            May 13, 2016

            Seminar: The Postman and the Tramp: Commitment in an Age of Cynicism

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            May 13, 2016

            Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”

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            May 5, 2016

            Seminar: Stasis Anxiety: Contemporary Fictions of South African ‘Waithood’

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            April 29, 2016

            Seminar: Traversing the Social

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            April 15, 2016

            Seminar: Mueda Massacre: The Musical Archive

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            April 7, 2016

            Seminar: The Varieties of Secular Experience: Magical Thinking, Occult Economies, and Puppetry

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            • A listening session with Leila Bencharnia
              June 6, 2025
            • DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
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            • In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
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