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READ MORE Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice

Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

Updated 09 September 2025
April 27, 2021

NRF Call: Postgraduate Student Funding for 2022

The CHR is excited to share the DSI and NRF call for new applications for Postgraduate Student Funding in 2022.
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February 18, 2021

A Conversation with Patricia Hayes

Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
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January 22, 2021

ACIP: CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO ORGANISE A WORKSHOP

The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2022.
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December 28, 2020

SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory Review

The SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory underwent its first-phase review in 2020 and has been awarded a second phase of funding for 2021-5 by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
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October 20, 2020

Ambivalent. Photography and Visibility in African History Book Launch

Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley Published by Ohio University Press, 2019
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November 18, 2019

Nsima Udo Wins Africa Thesis Award

Nsima Udo, CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory wins prestigious Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.
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September 30, 2019

Other Lives of the Image: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory

From 4 - 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.
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June 20, 2019

Other lives of the image

Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory
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  • Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice
    September 15, 2025
  • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
    September 10, 2025
  • Forthcoming events at the CHR
    September 9, 2025
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