February 19, 2026
Prof. Stephen Davis will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, February 26th on his ongoing Bitter Aloe project.
February 10, 2026
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
February 5, 2026
The CHR’s Valmont Layne will be giving a keynote at ‘The Klopse/Minstrel tradition as intangible heritage’, a seminar organised by the Salt River Heritage Society.
December 23, 2025
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2026 ACIP Workshop will be Revisiting and Reimagining “Imvo Zabantsundu”.
October 29, 2025
In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s) at the edge of time.
October 24, 2025
‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
October 21, 2025
The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
October 10, 2025
In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
October 6, 2025
Join us for a screening of Dublin Short a short documentary capturing the magic of the Little Museum of Dublin's famous guided tour. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Daryl Hendley Rooney, deputy curator at the Little Museum and visiting researcher on the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair.
September 19, 2025
The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.
September 15, 2025
Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
August 25, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.