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OSCILLATIONS:
Sonic Inquiries and Practices

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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 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 southern Africa.

MAXEKE:
“This work is not for yourselves”

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This production premieres at the Star Theatre at
the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.

2021 Annual Report

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Convening an humanities inquiry that crosses, blurs and sometimes dissolves the disciplinary frames of the traditional Arts and Humanities, and with the momentum in programming for its new Greatmore Humanities Hub, the CHR has expanded its focus towards the invention of concepts that articulates new scholarly and public expressions of the humanities across different scales for our increasingly complex times.

Breaking Ground at Greatmore

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By renovating a former derelict school building, UWC has taken a bold new step into the city, breaking through the spatial and intellectual circumscriptions of apartheid that had largely denied the university access to the city centre.

Puppet Walk and Performance at Boschendal’s Plum Harvest Festival

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After the great success of the elephant puppet walk at the Boschendal Plum Harvest Festival in 2021, we will be celebrating this year’s festival with giant puppets to raise awareness of the living waters and aquatic life of our planet.

Spotlight on Documentary

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The Documentary Film Project at the CHR is key to rethinking the humanities PhD, incorporating audio-visual content into a reimagining of an aesthetic education.

In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

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CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.

Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World

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The CHR is very pleased to announce the publication of Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), edited by G. Arunima, Patricia Hayes, and Premesh Lalu.

Winter School 2021:
Fragment and Form

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CHR Winter School 2021 on the theme of Fragment and Form was a hybrid event, hosted online and in-person at the Bertha Retreat at the Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek.

Visualizing the body: photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution 1914-2014

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The CHR warmly congratulated Doctoral Fellow Nsima Udo on the publication of his MA thesis as a monograph.

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Areas of Focus Aesthetic EducationMigrating ViolenceBecoming Technical of the HumanRethinking Political Theory: Citizenship and JusticeVisual History and TheoryCommunicating the HumanitiesAesthetic Education Under the direction of […]

NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory

Visual History & Theory is a research platform at the University of the Western Cape that promotes a critical engagement with the image in relation to other forms of knowledge production, creativity and contest in Africa and elsewhere.

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Seminar Programme Contemporary History and Humanities Seminars Established in 1993, the weekly South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar is the longest running seminar series […]

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