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 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
Apr 4, 2022

Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue

The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.
Apr 1, 2022

2022 Fellows Welcome

Following on from the first public lecture of 2022 by Jane Ohlmeyer, the CHR welcomed Fellows to the new academic year.
Nov 15, 2021

Curating in the Dark

CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.
Feb 14, 2020

Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation

The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
Jul 23, 2019

KINESIS: Of Moving and Being Moved

Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations, in an ongoing exploration of Animation, Animism, Thing Theory, the Subject and the Object, Puppetry Arts and performance.
Dec 13, 2018

CHR Year-End Colloquium

15 November 2018
Jul 26, 2016

On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject

A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject
May 26, 2015

Third Animal Studies Round Table in Africa Colloquium

CHR, UWC, 3 & 4 September 2013 Profs Wendy Woodward (English) and Shirley Brooks (Geography) hosted the third Animal Studies Round Table in Africa Colloquium […]

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