READ MOREExhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’, launched on 14 November 2025 at the Akademie der Künste (ADK). It is a project by the Akademie der Künste in collaboration with the CHR, and the Haus für Poesie, Berlin.READ MOREFilm Screening: MILISUTHANDO
The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the final session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.READ MOREGood Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
The latest Afrika Focus is now available. Edited by the CHR’s, Maurits van Bever Donker and Lwando Scott, this volume focuses on the question of transformative constitutionalism.
This year’s NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place between 27-28 July. It coalesces around the title, ‘Power: Remaking selves, archives, environments’, and will include a keynote by Leigh Raiford who is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
The CHR’s Dr Kim Gurney has contributed a chapter to a comprehensive book about the oeuvre of Bruce Arnott (1938-2018) – artist, academic and former director of The Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT.
This lecture will inaugurate the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and open an exhibition on 25 years of the Good Friday Agreements between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.
The CHR and the African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2024 ACIP Workshop will be Multispecies Stories from a Southern City.
While an elusive concept, neoliberalism has come to denote a set of economic policies and principles grounded on individualism, market deregulation, and extensive privatisation.