Premesh lalu biography sample

Premesh Lalu is Research Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Professor Premesh Lalu is a Research Professor and former director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC).

Premesh Lalu is a professor of history and director of History and Theory, Current Writing, and Journal of Asian and African Studies.

Professor Premesh Lalu is the former Director of the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research.

Master of Arts, Department of History, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Dissertation Title: Lived Texts, Written Texts and Con-texts: Eddie.

Premesh Lalu is a regular faculty at University of the Western Cape.

Under his leadership, the CHR was awarded the Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities. During his term as director, he worked with colleagues to establish the CHR’s Greatmore Arts and Humanities Hub - a laboratory of kinetic objects (with Handspring Puppet Company and Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective), a programme in music and new media, a documentary film training programme, and an international consortium on communicating the humanities.

Lalu is an advisory board member of Käte Hamburger Research Center in Munich, and a juror at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

He is past chairperson of the Handspring Trust for Puppetry in Education and, between 2014 and 2022, served as board member of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Inst