July 18, 2025
The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency
July 4, 2025
The CHR’s annual Winter School takes place between 7-11 July at the Iyatsiba Lab. Its theme for 2025 is the question of Freedom. Alongside its academic programme will be two public keynote lectures. The second will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Thursday 10 July and will be given by Monika Mehta.
July 2, 2025
The CHR’s annual Winter School takes place between 7-11 July at the Iyatsiba Lab. Its theme for 2025 is the question of Freedom. Alongside its academic programme will be two public keynote lectures. The first will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Tuesday 8 July and will be given by Federico Cuatlacuatl.
June 18, 2025
The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
June 17, 2025
Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
June 17, 2025
The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency
June 6, 2025
The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
May 28, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
May 21, 2025
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.
May 16, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
April 23, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
April 3, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you.