February 2016 - The Centre for Humanities Research

Culture and Technics Workshop: 10-12 November

The UK-SA Chair in Digital Humanities, held by Prof. Premesh Lalu, is welcoming international scholars to Cape Town in November to attend a three-day roundtable at Iyatsiba Lab in Woodstock.

Fellowship Announcement: Siyanda Kobokana

We are delighted to announce that SA/UK Digital Humanities PhD fellow, Siyanda Kobokana, has been selected for the inaugural Paris Doctoral Research Residency at IFAS–Fondation Fiminco–ArTeC.

An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness

My history of madness in the Belgian Congo will rely on tracking transactional, micro, and urgent documents as gestures. These promise to open “spheres of ethos,” with human riddles, forms of upheaval, and violence (Agamben 1992).

February 29, 2016

Launch of the new edition of Turner’s The Eye of the Needle

Factory of the Arts Artist in Residence Reza Khota Launches SA Tour

Seminar: Emerging Possiblities – Diaspora engagement and the global initiative on Somali refugees

Usakos – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums

Seminar: Epistemological restlessness. Trajectories in and out of history

Artist in Residence Mongi Mthombeni premieres ‘I See You’ at Royal Court

“The Crisis in Syria”: A Question of Futures’ by Na’eem Jeenah