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READ MORE Humanities in Session: Artists Forum with Themba Tsotsi

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
READ MORE Bitter Aloe: Using Machine Learning to reframe Human Rights research in South Africa.

Prof. Stephen Davis will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, February 26th on his ongoing Bitter Aloe project.
READ MORE Patricia Parker appointed as Extraordinary Professor at UWC.

The CHR is delighted to announce that Patricia Parker has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.
March 27, 2024

Against the Colonial Partition of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Mahmoud Darwish, Elias Khoury, and the Path Towards a Decolonial Alternative

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network.
March 20, 2024

New Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship applications

Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) offers a range of research grants and fellowships in 2022-2025 to support new research activity in the UWC archives.