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READ MORE ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: Encounters Film Screenings, Master Class & Panel Discussion at the CHR.

The CHR and Encounters will be hosting a film screening and master class with Brendan Canty on Monday, 21 September 2026, followed by a film screening and panel discussion on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 as part of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters monthly screening programme. READ MORE Solo Showcase, Andile Yenana in Conversation with Valmont

The CHR and Jazz in the Native Yards will be hosting Andile Yenana for a Solo Showcase on Wednesday 23 September at Iyatsiba Lab. READ MORE Exhibition Announcement: Home by Naoya Yoshikawa

The Iyatsiba Gallery Annexe at CHR is a participant venue for the city-wide Cape Town Photography Festival during September, hosting a solo exhibition by Naoya Yoshikawa.
September 21, 2026
ENGAGEREFLECTCREATE Encounters Film Screenings, Master Class & Panel Discussion at the CHR.

ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: Encounters Film Screenings, Master Class & Panel Discussion at the CHR.

The CHR and Encounters will be hosting a film screening and master class with Brendan Canty on Monday, 21 September 2026, followed by a film screening and panel discussion on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 as part of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters monthly screening programme.
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August 28, 2026
Archive Lab, HOME IE by Naoya Yoshikawa

Humanities in Session: Archive Lab, HOME: IE by Naoya Yoshikawa

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will be hosting Naoya Yoshikawa in September at the Iyatsiba Lab, in collaboration with The Cape Town Photography Festival. Alongside this Humanities in Session: Archive Lab seminar, Yoshikawa’s exhibition, HOME: IE, will be showing at the Iyatsiba Lab’s Annex Gallery (3-26 September 2026).
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August 18, 2026

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Burn/t Out, The Legacy of Forced Displacement During North(ern) Ireland’s ‘Troubles’

The CHR, in collaboration with the District Six Homecoming Centre, welcomes Brendan Ciarán Browne, visiting scholar of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair, who will present a public lecture on Tuesday 25 August 2026, at the District Six Homecoming Centre.
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August 6, 2026

Exhibition Launch: Rhythmic Solidarity: the photographs of Derek Speirs

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to present an exhibition of Derek Speirs' photographs of the Irish anti-apartheid movement to mark the conferral of honorary doctorates on Charlotte Maxeke and Mary Robinson. The exhibition will be opened by former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.
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July 20, 2026

Humanities in Sesssion: ‘Returning Transitions: Memories of Persistent Crises in South African and Russian Writing’, with Ksenia Robbe

In this seminar, Ksenia Robbe present the key questions and theoretical propositions concerning the possibility of reading comparatively and connectively memories of the post-apartheid and post-Soviet ‘transitions’ in contemporary South African and Russian writing.
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July 9, 2026

Archive Lab: ‘Archiving Resistance: The VNS/AFRAVISION Collective’, with Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
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