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READ MORE Book Launch: A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa, by Mark Sanders.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. READ MORE ‘Queerness, Blackness and the Postcolony’ with Lwando Scott

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. READ MORE Exhibition opening: Facts and Fabulations

Facts and Fabulations, an exhibition of the New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab will open on 9 April, 2026. The opening will be preceded by a short talk by the curator Marcos Martins and the assistant curator Katlego Tiisetso Nkoana.
January 19, 2026

CHR statement on the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy from the South African Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape adds its voice to many others who are deeply concerned about the cancellation of Gabrielle Goliath’s Elegy that was officially selected for the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 2026.
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April 20, 2022

Revolutionary Papers Exhibition Launch

The Center for Humanities Research and Department of History at UWC, together with the Department of English at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics, invite you to a night of art, music, and conversations on anticolonial, anti-apartheid, left & liberation struggles.
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May 12, 2020

The Humanities in Session with Kitso Lelliott

The CHR's A.W.Mellon Artist in Residence in Image and postdoctoral fellow, Kitso Lelliott was invited by the Kunstverein Braunschweig , Germany to create a work of video installations for the exhibition, THE FACULTY OF SENSING – Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo.
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