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            ‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu. Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.... READ MORE 'Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.... READ MORE Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.... READ MORE
            November 29, 2018

            Pan Troglodyte to travel to the Université Paris

            Professor Jane Taylor to present performance/lecture in November
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            November 29, 2018

            Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence

            CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu to speak at workshop at Northwestern University
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            November 29, 2018

            Re-Imagining as Destruction and Creation

            Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to speak at Norval Foundation Symposium
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            November 29, 2018

            Reza Khota Quartet to play at Cape Town International Jazz Festival

            CHR Artist in Residence to perform at 20th annual festival
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            November 22, 2018

            Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop

            10 and 11 December 2018
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            November 19, 2018

            Reza Khota Quartet – Liminal

            25 November 2018
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            November 14, 2018

            RIVER AND REDFIN

            The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018
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            November 14, 2018

            Marxism, Radical Traditions and the South: Reflections on “Stuart Hall’s Voice”

            The Other Universals consortium of the CHR invites you to a panel
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            November 13, 2018

            Jakes Gerwel – Celebrating an icon’s legacy

            The life and legacy of the late Prof Jakes Gerwel, former UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, was recently celebrated with, among other things, a keynote address by anti-apartheid activist, Jay Naidoo.
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            November 1, 2018

            Mandla Mlangeni receives 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award

            CHR Artist in Residence in Jazz
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            • ‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.
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            • ‘Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh and Erich Hörl
              March 24, 2025
            • Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon
              March 11, 2025
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