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READ MORE The Invasion of Melos: An Adaptation of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, by Colin Murphy

The Invasion of Melos, an adaptation of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, by Colin Murphy will be performed by the Performing Arts Collective on Thursday 19 March, 2026. This performance is being staged as part of the Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair, and will be followed by a discussion with Colin Murphy.
READ MORE Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City

On Wednesday, 11 March, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will co-host a discussion titled Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City.
READ MORE FRAMEWURX, by Scott-Eric Williams

FRAMEWURX (2025) is a limited edition zine created as a companion artefact for ‘Tales of History Retold’ (2025), a group exhibition co-curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom at Iyatsiba Lab, University of the Western Cape, and is now available in digital form.
October 17, 2019

Dying For Gold Screening and Discussion

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present. Through more than a century of deep level gold mining in South Africa, a legacy of illness, death and inequality has left its mark on the Southern African continent.
October 11, 2019

Call for Papers – Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South workshop

The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.
October 10, 2019

Launch of Mellon South Lab in Performance Cultures and Embodied Creative Practices

The Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Per-formance and the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects is involved in an excit-ing partnership between the CHR at UWC and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia.