Lecture Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

October 13, 2026

International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, 2026 Book and Exhibition Launch: Makuapis

The CHR will be hosting its annual International Workshop in Visual History & Theory at Iyatsiba Lab on 16-17 October 2026, in partnership with Université-Paris-8, on the theme of 'Looking Together.' Migration, solidarity and mobility across time and space are key themes. This workshop includes a series of panels and lectures, and coincides with the launch of an exhibition, Makuapis, on Thursday 15 October at Iyatsiba Lab.

October 9, 2026

International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, 2026, Keynote lecture by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

The CHR will be hosting its annual International Workshop in Visual History & Theory at Iyatsiba Lab on 16-17 October 2026, in partnership with Université-Paris-8, on the theme of 'Looking Together.' Migration, solidarity and mobility across time and space are key themes. The workshop includes a public keynote lecture by Zeynep Gürsel which will address border surveillance photography.

October 9, 2026

International Workshop in Visual History & Theory 2026: Raphael Grisey, Introducing the Bouba Touré Archive

The CHR will be hosting its annual International Workshop in Visual History & Theory at Iyatsiba Lab on 16-17 October 2026, in partnership with Université-Paris-8, on the theme of 'Looking Together.' Migration, solidarity and mobility across time and space are key themes.

August 18, 2026

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Burn/t Out, The Legacy of Forced Displacement During North(ern) Ireland’s ‘Troubles’

The CHR, in collaboration with the District Six Homecoming Centre, welcomes Brendan Ciarán Browne, visiting scholar of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair, who will present a public lecture on Tuesday 25 August 2026, at the District Six Homecoming Centre.

March 25, 2026

Art effects: sensory education in uncertain times, by Premesh Lalu

The CHR would like to thank the publisher, K. Verlag, for their generous donation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression - What is Called Caring? Vol. 1. to the CHR and fellows of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics.

April 23, 2025

Africa, Philosophy and the Image

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

April 3, 2025

Waterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you.

March 11, 2025

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.

March 10, 2025

Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.

CHR Extraordinary Professor, Erich Hörl, will be giving a series of seminars and a public lecture in March at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.

July 8, 2024

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.

The CHR welcomes the Maxeke–Robinson Research Chair, Rita Duffy, will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Wednesday 24 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July.

March 27, 2024

Against the Colonial Partition of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Mahmoud Darwish, Elias Khoury, and the Path Towards a Decolonial Alternative

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network.

February 2, 2024

UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel is undertaking a mission to South Africa from 29 January until 9 February.