April 2020 - The Centre for Humanities Research

Book Launch: A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa, by Mark Sanders.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.

‘Queerness, Blackness and the Postcolony’ with Lwando Scott

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.

Exhibition opening: Facts and Fabulations

Facts and Fabulations, an exhibition of the New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab will open on 9 April, 2026. The opening will be preceded by a short talk by the curator Marcos Martins and the assistant curator Katlego Tiisetso Nkoana.

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.