Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.
The CHR welcomes Robert Trent Vinson who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Tuesday 23 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July....
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Between Poetry and Biography: Ruth Mompati, Charlotte Maxeke and intellectual histories of liberation
The CHR welcomes Mongane Wally Serote, South Africa’s National Poet Laureate, and Thozama April, who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Thursday 25 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July....
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Winter School 2024: Partition / non-Partition
The CHR’s annual Winter School will be held at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab between 22 and 26 July 2024 at the Iyatsiba Lab in Cape Town (66 Greatmore St, Woodstock)....
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Come move mountains at the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, Saturday 16 December 2023 at the Barrydale Sports Ground Dahlia Avenue Barrydale.
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.
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Ghent Africa Platform Lecture by Premesh Lalu in Honour of Nelson Mandela, which will take place at the Greatmore Humanities Hub on 13 November 2023.
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.
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.