August 6, 2026
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?
July 23, 2026
This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director.
July 20, 2026
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.
July 9, 2026
The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
July 6, 2026
Liminality has been theorised as a condition of transition. Whether in its original anthropological form as a movement from one state to another through a rite of passage or in its postcolonial rendering via Homi Bhabha's notion of hybridity, liminality has come to mark a condition of being “not quite” and “not yet.”
June 30, 2026
Application deadline: 17 July
June 30, 2026
A public lecture in conjunction with the CHR annual Winter School Programme.
June 30, 2026
A Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair film screening and lecture, in conjunction with the CHR's annual Winter School Programme.
June 24, 2026
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.
June 2, 2026
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.
May 29, 2026
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.
May 26, 2026
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations.