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READ MORE Humanities in Session, Archive Lab: Immersive Technologies and the Archive

The advancement of immersive technologies is fast shaping archival practice. What does this new yet old complexity of design, history, technology and mixed realities mean for the future of storytelling, research and education?
READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Tshegofatso Moeng

This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director.
READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion: ‘Returning Transitions: Memories of Persistent Crises in South African and Russian Writing’, with Ksenia Robbe

In this seminar, Ksenia Robbe present the key questions and theoretical propositions concerning the possibility of reading comparatively and connectively memories of the post-apartheid and post-Soviet ‘transitions’ in contemporary South African and Russian writing.
November 28, 2023

CTV teaser

The Centre for Humanities Research research is pleased to anounce the debut broadcast on Cape Town Television of a collection of films made in its Documentary Film Programme on 1 December 2023.
November 2, 2023

Publication: Patricia Hayes, ‘Our Nightly Bread’.

The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of ‘Our Nightly Bread: Women and the city in Ricardo Rangel’s photographs of Lourenço Marques, Mozambique (1950-1960s)’, by Patricia Hayes, which appears in Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975.
November 1, 2023

ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.

The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2025 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards are now open. ACIP invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in South Africa to organise a workshop that will take place in 2025, as well as for Ivan Karp doctoral research awards for African students enrolled in South African Ph.D. programmes.