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READ MORE Patricia Parker appointed as Extraordinary Professor at UWC.

The CHR is delighted to announce that Patricia Parker has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. READ MORE The Global Silencing of Racism: A book discussion on Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. READ MORE New Publication: Kim Gurney reviews Jay Pather’s edited volume, Restless Infections - Public Art and a Transforming City.

There is a double bind to writing about performance art, or live art as it is also called. Generally speaking, live art involves combinations of the body, time and space.
January 19, 2026

CHR statement on the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy from the South African Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape adds its voice to many others who are deeply concerned about the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy that was officially selected for the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2026.
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October 29, 2025

Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s) at the edge of time.
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October 21, 2025

Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
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