New Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship applications
Application deadline: 30 March 2024.
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. They form part of the university’s initiative to activate its archival holdings. These include the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives and other specialised research, activist, multi- media and art collections at the university that are associated with liberation struggle histories and multiple forms of activism and art production in southern Africa. This archival initiative now invites diverse engagements with the histories, objects, and media in these collections, with eventual outcomes as research theses, papers and/or publications, as well as performances, films and curated works. Awardees will become fellows of the CHR.
Information about collections can be found through email inquiry to vlayne@uwc.ac.za.
The fellowship categories for 2024 include Student Curatorial Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships. Applications should be addressed to the New Archival Visions fellowship selection committee, which is composed of representatives from the New Archival Visions research project, the CHR, and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at UWC. Decisions of the committee are final. In certain circumstances, the committee may elect to interview suitable candidates.
