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READ MORE Announcement: Centre for Humanities Research and W. E. B. Du Bois Centre MOU

We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the W. E. B. Du Bois Centre at the University of Massachusetts have recently signed a Memoranda of Understanding. READ MORE ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications, 2026

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences and invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2027. ACIP is a partnership between the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the... READ MORE 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.
September 9, 2025

Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

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

Encounters Documentary Film Festival highlights: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars

The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
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May 15, 2019

Warona

Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company
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June 1, 2018

Louis Moholo in conversation

CHR will be hosting a public conversation with jazz drumming great Louis Moholo at the Guga S’thebe Community Centre in Langa at 6.30 pm on June 8th 2018
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September 1, 2015

Seminars 2014

400      25 February: Suren Pilllay (CHR, UWC), Migrating violence: Community, citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa 401      11 March: Desiree Lewis (Women’s and Gender […]
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September 1, 2015

Seminars 2013

374      12 February: Geraldine Frieslaar (CHR, UWC) & Olusegun Morakinyo (Robben Island Museum), The UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives and the African Programme in Museum […]
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August 17, 2015

Love & Revolution

A workshop series & publication project A series of four international workshops on ‘love’ and ‘revolution’ took place in Cape Town (October 2010), Minneapolis (March-April […]
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May 27, 2015

Archives of the Non-Racial

Archives of the Non-Racial A series of public lectures, panel discussions, book launches and performances Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism [Wits Institute for Social […]
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May 27, 2015

The Black Christ

The Black Christ 2015 Written and produced by Damian Samuels Written and produced by Damian Samuels, a Masters fellow at the CHR at UWC, ‘The […]
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