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READ MORE Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November

The UK-SA Chair in Digital Humanities, held by Prof. Premesh Lalu, is welcoming international scholars to Cape Town in November to attend a three-day roundtable at Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock.
READ MORE Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana

We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.
READ MORE An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992).
October 25, 2019

Seminar: Sam Longford

Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial
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October 18, 2019

Seminar: Phindi Mnyaka

Lady Kennaway: A Ship Story
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October 14, 2019

Seminar: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida

Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s 'Berlin Wall'
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October 8, 2019

Seminar: Mahvish Ahmed

Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan's Jabbal
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September 30, 2019

Seminar: Rui Assubuji

Speculate – troubling reducibility and blackness
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August 22, 2019

Seminar: Silvia Forni

Opening spaces: Of Africa, slow museology, and institutional undoing
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August 19, 2019

Seminar: Elizabeth Harney

We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
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August 8, 2019

Seminar: Annelize Kotze and Bongani Ndhlovu

Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities
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August 6, 2019

Seminar: Ari Sitas

Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey
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July 26, 2019

Seminar: Okechukwu Nwafor

Funeral Poster and Pre-Funeral Visual Economy in southeastern Nigeria
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May 13, 2019

Seminar: Willemien Froneman

Nico Carstens, Disavowal, and the Perverted Mind of Apartheid
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May 3, 2019

Seminar: Ari Sitas

Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey
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  • Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November
    October 14, 2025
  • Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana
    October 14, 2025
  • An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness
    October 10, 2025
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