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The New Normal Life is a film with puppetry about the pandemic, written, directed, performed, filmed and edited by the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective

The New Normal Life

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Our warm congratulations to CHR doctoral fellow, Nsima Udo for being named recipient of the African Critical Inquiry Programme's 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award for his doctoral project

African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

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WINTER SCHOOL 2020

Taking the form of a series of webinars, each of the invited speakers will make their lectures available as a written text a week before their respective webinars

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Exodus, Movement, a/the People: Critical Thinking and the Collective

Imaginary Futures

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Mellon Post-doctoral fellow, Aja Marneweck, and CHR collaborators Net vir Pret, amongst many more artists are collaborating with the continuation of the award-winning participatory film and performance events in 2018 Sig/Sight and 2019 The Vertical Journey, Marcus Neustetter returns with a third reimagined experimental performance in 2020.

Green Screen

Green Screen, a newly launched work of creative nonfiction, follows the life of a film set created for a commercial by a team of artisans in Salt River, Cape Town, and how it morphs into a surprising series of second lives.

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Project by Kim Gurney

The CHR congratulates, Artist in Residence, Kitso Lelliot

Kitso Lelliot is an Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at the Centre for Humanities Research. The show is at The Södertälje Konsthall and will run from the 7th March until the 10th of May.

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The Humanities in Session

During these strange and troubling times of planetary pandemic, lock down and physical isolation, the Centre for Humanities Research is convening a series of short performances online in “The Humanities in Session” series.

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Dr Thozama April Wins Award

The CHR congratulates Dr. April on receiving The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award.

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What is the University for?

A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.

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by: Premesh Lalu

Mandla Mlangeni receives 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award

The CHR congratulates Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni on being a recipient of the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award.

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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.

Statement on the DST-NRF Flagship

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WATCH THE OPENING SPEECHES

Since its establishment in 2006, the CHR has offered a space to think about what it means to be a university in Africa. Read more about the itineraries of thought and practice that have animated the CHR over the last ten years, and about what's to come.

Re-vitalising the Humanities

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The CHR’s programmes are driven by academic research and scholarly exchange. This is evident in the CHR’s publication record, which contains monographs, edited collections, journal articles and more

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Areas of Focus Aesthetic EducationMigrating ViolenceBecoming Technical of the HumanRethinking Political Theory: Citizenship and JusticeVisual […]

Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance

The Andrew W Mellon Chair Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance holds together several interdisciplinary modes of enquiry.

NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory

What is Visual History & Theory? Visual History & Theory is a research platform at […]

National Research Foundation SARChI Chair

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