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READ MORE Humanities in Session, Archive Lab: Immersive Technologies and the Archive

The advancement of immersive technologies is fast shaping archival practice. What does this new yet old complexity of design, history, technology and mixed realities mean for the future of storytelling, research and education? READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Tshegofatso Moeng

This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director. READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion: ‘Returning Transitions: Memories of Persistent Crises in South African and Russian Writing’, with Ksenia Robbe

In this seminar, Ksenia Robbe present the key questions and theoretical propositions concerning the possibility of reading comparatively and connectively memories of the post-apartheid and post-Soviet ‘transitions’ in contemporary South African and Russian writing.
June 24, 2026

Technics and the Urban: UK-SA Chair in Culture and Technics annual workshop.

The  UK-SA Chair in Culture & Technics, a bilateral programme between the British Academy and South Africa’s National Research Foundation, convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
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August 19, 2025

ENGAGE / REFLECT / CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.
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July 18, 2025

Holding a Thought – The puppetry of Ukwanda

‘Holding a Thought - the puppetry of Ukwanda’ will launch at Micealis Gallery on 23 July 2025. Curated by Premesh Lalu and Kurt Campbell, this exhibition engages the work of CHR Artists in Residence, Siphokazi Mpofu, Luyanda Nogodlwana and Sipho Ngxolo who make up the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Arts Collective.
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April 9, 2025

The Herds

We are proud to announce that Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective will be joining ‘The Herds' as they travel with life-sized animal puppets from Kinshasa to Norway.
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