READ MOREExhibition 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 MORECharlotte 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 MOREIFAA 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.
Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo confronts the momentous challenges facing theatre makers with his solo show Commission Continua, performed online for the 2021 National Arts Festival.
The following fellows were hosted through the Centre for Humanities Research as visiting postdoctoral fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies African Humanities Programme.
The CHR congratulates former doctoral fellow Okechukwu Nwafor on the publication of Aso Ebi: Dress, Fashion, Visual Culture, and Urban Cosmopolitanism in West Africa by University of Michigan Press.
The CHR congratulates Doctoral Fellow Robert Uys for being named recipient of the African Critical Inquiry Programme’s 2021 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award.
Contributions by Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research to edited volumes represent a diverse engagement with the centre’s academic inquiries. The following list shows publications from the latter years of the centre’s output.
Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research regularly publish articles and reviews in local and international journals, applying the centre’s intellectual inquiries across a wide range of disciplines and interests.