The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) constitutes an arena for scholarly exchange, artistic creation, and public inquiry into African political subjectivity, art and society, and technology and the human.
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The CHR builds a humanities discourse that is responsive to nurturing a discourse on the concept of the post-apartheid, and explores the relationship between the human and technology in our contemporary world.
Performances Together with the Handspring Trust, Net vir Pret, Magpie Art Collective and Ukwanda Puppet and Design Company, the CHR has worked at creating an […]
Lodged in the larger initiative of the Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, and supported through the CHR at UWC, the Factory of the Ar
The Factory of the Arts in Athlone In the 1980s Athlone was a centre of the struggles against apartheid, particularly in respect of the student-worker […]
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.
International Anti-Apartheid Posters In 1960 the Security Council of the United Nations (UN) adopted a resolution deploring the killing of 69 peaceful protestors at Sharpeville […]
Jon Soske is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Toronto, Canada. He received a MA in Comparative Literature from the University of […]
