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            May 8, 2023

            Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities

            The CHR warmly congratulates Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppetry Company on receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto.
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            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.
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            December 1, 2022
            Foreigner by Manfred Zylla (CHR/UWC art collection)

            Planetary Humanities for Planetary Knowledge: Toward a New Research Agenda

            The Planetary Humanities Workshop takes place on 2 and 3 December, 2022 in Cape Town
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            May 26, 2022

            Taking The Walk

            The CHR is pleased to announce the honouring of the achievements of Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, who will receive honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the Jackman Humanities Institute, in June 2022.
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            April 4, 2022

            Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue

            The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.
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            January 10, 2017

            Filmmaking Practices in Africa Conference

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