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READ MORE 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.
READ MORE ‘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.
READ MORE 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.
September 10, 2025

New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
September 9, 2025

Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.