Jun 7, 2023

SASRIM Music Production workshop with Shane Cooper

Deadline: 15 June.
Jun 5, 2023

Thinking Across Hemispheres

A Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) Lecture
Apr 26, 2023

Patricia Parker visit

In April, the CHR had the pleasure of hosting Prof Patricia Parker (University of North Carolina) for a series of seminars and discussions in Cape Town.
Apr 20, 2023

Masterclass with Neils Pagh Anderson

On 3 April, 2023, Neils Pagh Anderson joined editors, filmmakers, and CHR fellows for a masterclass in editing at Bertha House, Mowbray. Facilitated by CHR PhD fellow and independent editor and filmmaker, Khalid Shamis, this one-day workshop is now available,
Apr 6, 2023

Scattering Histories: Queerness, Migrancy, and the Question of the Archive

The Allen Isaacman Collection Annual African History Lecture
Mar 31, 2023

“Repair in ‘the After’: A Conversation”.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
Mar 23, 2023

RECORDING: Undoing Apartheid, book launch and panel discussion.

The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI), University of Toronto, held an online book launch and panel discussion of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Apartheid, on Tuesday, 14 March.
Mar 8, 2023

A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?

A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
Mar 2, 2023

CHR Winter School, 2022: On the question of the minor
A reading by Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo

The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.
Mar 1, 2023

Publication announcements: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott

The CHR is delighted to highlight recent publications by Fernanda Pinto de Almeida and Ross Truscott.
Feb 23, 2023

Race and Caste

The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.
Feb 6, 2023

Revisiting Sophiatown Writers: Bloke Modisane and Can Themba

A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research

The CHR fellowship programme will continue in 2022 through online platforms and, where permitted, limited live events hosted in compliance with COVID-19 protocols. Please follow our events page for updates about events.

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