Colloquia Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

September 7, 2023

Itumeleng Wa Lehulere Standing Stage Left at South African Theatres

ICGC Visiting Scholar and the CHR’s Convener of the Factory of the Arts, Itumuleng Wa Lehulere, will be giving a lecture at the ICGC Colloquium Series, on 8 September 2023, as part of his residency at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.

March 31, 2023

“Repair in ‘the After’: A Conversation”.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of the Advanced Research Seminar.

March 1, 2023

Publication announcements: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott

The CHR is delighted to highlight recent publications by Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott.

February 23, 2023

Race and Caste

The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.

February 6, 2023

Revisiting Sophiatown Writers: Bloke Modisane and Can Themba

A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research

April 4, 2022

Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue

The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.

April 1, 2022

2022 Fellows Welcome

Following on from the first public lecture of 2022 by Jane Ohlmeyer, the CHR welcomed Fellows to the new academic year.

November 15, 2021

Curating in the Dark

CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.

February 14, 2020

Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation

The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.

July 23, 2019

KINESIS: Of Moving and Being Moved

Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations, in an ongoing exploration of Animation, Animism, Thing Theory, the Subject and the Object, Puppetry Arts and performance.

December 13, 2018

CHR Year-End Colloquium

15 November 2018

July 26, 2016

On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject

A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject