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            Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024 The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape.... READ MORE Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.... READ MORE Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects. The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert.... READ MORE
            February 25, 2022

            Puppet Walk and Performance at Boschendal’s Plum Harvest Festival

            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.  
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            February 23, 2022

            In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

            CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.
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            February 17, 2022

            Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022

            Call for applications: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences/ University of the Western Cape Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022.
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            February 9, 2022

            Book Launch with Lwando Scott

            Join CHR Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott for the launch of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge, 2022), where he will discuss his chapter “Paradoxes of Racism: Whiteness in Gay Pages Magazine.”
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            February 8, 2022

            Spotlight on Documentary

            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.
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            • Andrew W. Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance
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            • Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
              December 3, 2024
            • Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
              November 28, 2024
            • Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects.
              November 19, 2024
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