December 2019 - The Centre for Humanities Research

‘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....

'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....

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....

December 10, 2019

Democracy: Genealogies, Concepts, and Practices

A conference hosted by the CHR from 17 - 18 December 2019 will explore the relationship between the genealogy, the concept and the practice of democracy.

December 2, 2019

The Arts and Rethinking the Subject

The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation Days.