Under the auspices of the DST-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities and the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory, the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is pleased to announce the 2019 Fellowship competition for Post-doctoral, PhD, MA and Honours awards.
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A Lecture by Rahul Mehrotra who practices architecture in Mumbai and teaches at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he is Professor of Urban Design and Planning.
Soft Thresholds
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The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance, called Olifantland, a multilingual visual theatre show featuring five majestic life-size elephant puppets by Adrian Kohler from Handspring Puppet Company in collaboration with UKWANDA Puppet and Design Collective.
The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance
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This is not simply another colloquium about African photography within the field of visual studies. It is concerned with the the way histories are written or assembled, and the materials used to narrate or analyse the past of the African continent, and the relationships between them.
On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives
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The DST-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (CHR) in collaboration with the SARChI Chair in Social Change at the University of Fort Hare (SARChI) and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Global Change at the University of Minnesota (ICGC), held the seventh Winter School on the theme “The Humanities Improvised” in 2017.
WINTER SCHOOL
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Under the theme of The Humanities Improvised, the annual meeting gathered together artists, art commentators and humanists from member institutions to reconceptualize the relationship between art and the humanities against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world of work, politics and technology.
The International Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI)
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The CHR hosted the 2017 annual meeting of
The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) constitutes an arena for scholarly exchange, artistic creation and public inquiry into African political subjectivity, art and society, and technology and the human.
