April 2020 - The Centre for Humanities Research

Technics & Urban workshop takes off

“They conduct their lives with a wry resilience. They have a front row seat to the apocalyptic – birds falling out the sky – but they go on, with a cruel optimism towards the everyday within the age of extreme climate change. To translate that into formal strategies is the work of documentary.”

Publication Announcement: New Contrast, Issue 212, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb

We are pleased to announce the publication of New Contrast’s 212th Issue, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb, which includes contributions from Premesh Lalu who holds the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics at the CHR, and Bongani Kona (Department of Historical Studies, UWC).

Humanities in Sesssion, Artists’ Forum: Underwater Cables & Global Digital Infrastructure

This session, titled ‘Underwater Cables & Global Digital Infrastructure’, will be led by Ian Purnell, and Southbound Studio members, Kamil Adam Hassim, and Benji Anstey, who will be in conversation with the CHR’s Premesh Lalu.

April 30, 2020

CHR Doctoral and Masters Fellows Graduate

We wish them every success as they pursue their advanced postgraduate and postdoctoral studies as CHR fellows

April 15, 2020

Call for proposals to organise a workshop: African Critical Inquiry Programme

Deadline changes for all African Critical Inquiry Programme applications.

April 6, 2020

The Humanities in Session

During these strange and troubling times of planetary pandemic, lock down and physical isolation, the Centre for Humanities Research is convening a series of short performances online in "The Humanities in Session" series. As time passes, we hope to reflect on what it means for the Humanities to be "in session" in such times.