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The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023 H.E. Fionnuala Gilsenan, Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, and the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Professor Tyrone Pretorius, are proud to announce the launch of UWC’s Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair at the Centre for Humanities Research.This Chair emerges out of a longstanding collaboration between the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute (TLRH) at Trinity College Dublin that has focused on colonialism, partition, postcoloniality and race. Relationships and networks forged through these institutions’ fellowship programmes have laid the groundwork for today’s historic announcement. The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair inaugurates, through the Humanities, a broader and reciprocal collaboration between Ireland and South Africa which engages our complex inheritance of colonialism, empire, partition and apartheid, and how to overcome this legacy. The CHR and TLRH’s work in aesthetics and politics has drawn attention across our social and institutional settings to the ways that cultural production can bring political thought, the arts, and research across disciplines into the public sphere. This shared understanding stems from a recognition of a history that marks both countries in relation to legacies of colonialism and partition, as well as to the possibilities inherent in the work of education and the arts to find unexplored modes of reconciliation to transcend these legacies. For more information: buff.ly/3YUAuxs ... See MoreSee Less

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5 days ago

Call for Contributions: The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) 2023 Conference Deadline: 14 April 2023The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) invites contributions for its 2023 conference, hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape.SASRIM welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics in music research, including those that explore disciplinary intersections, and the convergences and divergences between performance and/as research. Alongside this broad scope, we especially invite submissions that respond to the notion of sound and music as a problem space (Scott, 2004) of relationality and knowledge production, and how this manifests at the intersections of voice, technology, and the archive. We encourage proposals for papers, panels, round tables, or alternative formats of presentation. All proposals will be assessed individually, without privileging particular subjects or methodologies. For more information and application form: buff.ly/3yHj1xU ... See MoreSee Less

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2 weeks ago

PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT AND OPEN CALL FOR ARTIST RESIDENCIES. OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are pleased to announce the start of a joint project, OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices, and an open call for artist residency applications from sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in the continent. For more information and application details: buff.ly/3mCwC79 Deadline: 4 April 2023 ... See MoreSee Less

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Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are...

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2 weeks ago

The CHR invites you to a lecture in the Humanities in Session Series by Dr. Ayanda Simayi from Nelson Mandela University.Date: 22 March 2023Venue: CHR seminar room, University of the Western CapeTime: 1pm-2:30pmPlease RSVP Micaela Felix at centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.zaFor more details please see buff.ly/3IWXmXf ... See MoreSee Less

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3 weeks ago

CHR Winter School 2022. The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town. In addition to fellows and researchers from the CHR-UWC, colleagues from, the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin, The Käte Hamburger Research Centre Global dis:connect at Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich and the Instituto Mauricio Kagel, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, all joined in Cape Town. This iteration of the Winter School drew its topic from work by Ajay Skaria, specifically his lecture at the 2021 CHR Winter School. Skaria’s departure marks the minor as distinct from the subaltern. He draws on Mufti in understanding the minor as a site of disruption. As per the Winter School concept note, a central consideration for theorists is to hold subalternity and minor in tension.The above extract is taken from Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo’s 2022 Winter School report. Rather than a systematic reporting Kiasha and Emma offer a reading of the debates, questions, themes, and tensions that emerged from the Winter School.This reading is now available via the link below, alongside the Winter School programme and four Winter School Lectures which have been made available on the CHR’s Youtube account. ... See MoreSee Less

CHR Winter School, 2022: On the question of the minor A reading by Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo - The Centre for Humanities Research

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The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.

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