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READ MORE Exhibition Launch: Together/Apart

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Little Museum of Dublin are proud to present Together/Apart, which opens on Wednesday 13 May in Ireland.
READ MORE Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair Announcement

We are delighted to announce that Morna Regan and Lynne Parker will be joining the CHR for its annual Winter School Programme and as part of the Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair.
READ MORE IFAA summit

The CHR was delighted to host and be associated with the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), who held a summit at Iyatsiba Lab in April 2026.
October 29, 2025

Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s) at the edge of time.
October 21, 2025

Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
October 10, 2025

In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile

Contemporary Black female artists have reclaimed the everyday labor and domestic motions women have historically performed, as artistic gestures in their own right. For example, the ceramic and bronze sculptures of the African-American artist Simone Leigh have referenced vernacular processes like washing chores and needlework.
October 10, 2025

Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.