The Jakes Gerwel Foundation, the Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape extend an invitation to the Jakes Gerwel Commemorative Celebration
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The Subject Races:
Populations, Classifications, Justice
The workshop is therefore interested in how we might think, conceptually, historically, politically, about the figure of the subject races across these African experiences. It illuminates conceptions of citizenship and justice as they manifest in the postcolonial present.
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Pan Troglodyte
As part of Season 4 of the Centre for the Less Good Idea, Andrew W Mellon Chair in Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the CHR Professor Jane Taylor will do a performance with actors Terry Norton and Tony Bonani Miyambo.
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2018 International Roundtable at Institute for Global Citizenship
(Macalester College)
CHR director Professor Premesh Lalu will speak at the 25th Annual International Roundtable at the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College.
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CHR Annual Report 2017
Milestones were specifically recorded in areas of research publication, graduate fellowship support, consolidation of national and international collaborations, and enhancement of our public arts projects.
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A Future Museum Against Apartheid
This short documentary film, A Future Museum Against Apartheid, showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection.
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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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2017 REPORT
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.
