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The Humanities and the University in Ruin – Prof Mowitt

Aug 24, 2015

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Annual Deans Distinguished Lecture – UWC Arts Faculty presented by Prof. John Mowitt.
Theme: “The Humanities and the University in Ruin”

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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. The discussion included contributions from Melissa Levin (University of Toronto), Warren Crichlow (York University), John K. Noyes (University of Toronto), and Premesh Lalu (CHR), and is now available on the JHI’s youtube channel: buff.ly/40ptgD4 In Undoing Apartheid, Premesh Lalu argues that aesthetic education is a process of unlearning, and learning to learn; a reconstitution of the relations of sense and perception that is necessary to revitalize post-apartheid reconciliation. Listen in to a lively discussion about history, education, theatre, and the pathway past the intellectually stifling categories of racism ... See MoreSee Less

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This panel brings together researchers involved in the Mellon-funded project, “Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue” (2016-2020). In Undoing Apartheid...

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONSICAS:MP Autumn School 2023 ‘Decolonization/Decolonial: Thinking across Disciplines and Geo-Histories’11–21 September 2023The 2023 autumn school of the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP) offers broad-based theoretical training to doctoral researchers and enhances methodological competence. The need to decolonize knowledge is universally felt. However, what it means to decolonize thought is a matter of intense debate. In this autumn school, we discuss diverse ways in which scholars and activists have thought of this question – in different geo-historical regions of the world and across disciplines of study, thus bringing a comparative perspective to bear upon the issue of decolonization/decoloniality.The question at the heart of the school is how to move forward from the moment of a critique of Eurocentrism to a positive and substantial rethinking of the academy on a planet faced with climate and refugee crisis, pandemics, universal financialization, data extraction, resurgent nationalism and political authoritarianism. Debates from the Global South will play a central role in our deliberations.Resource persons represent various disciplinary and regional backgrounds. Some of our resource persons are Alejandro de Oto (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas ye Tecnicas [CONICET], Buenos Aires), David Scott (Columbia University, New York), Kai Kresse (Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient [ZMO], Berlin), Suren Pillay (University of the Western Cape), Priya Kumar (University of Delhi), and Baidik Bhattacharya (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies) and Prathama Banerjee (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies). ... See MoreSee Less

Call for Applications: ICAS:MP Autumn School 2023- ‘Decolonization/Decolonial: Thinking across Disciplines and Geo-Histories’

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11–21 September 2023 Objective The 2023 autumn school of the M.S. Merian – R. Tagore International Centre of Advanced Studies ‘Metamorphoses of the Political’ (ICAS:MP) is designed to offer br...

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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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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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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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