READ MORETechnics & Urban workshop takes off
“They conduct their lives with a wry resilience. They have a front row seat to the apocalyptic – birds falling out the sky – but they go on, with a cruel optimism towards the everyday within the age of extreme climate change. To translate that into formal strategies is the work of documentary.” READ MOREPublication Announcement: New Contrast, Issue 212, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb
We are pleased to announce the publication of New Contrast’s 212th Issue, In Memory of Diana Ferrus and Zoë Wicomb, which includes contributions from Premesh Lalu who holds the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics at the CHR, and Bongani Kona (Department of Historical Studies, UWC).READ MOREHumanities in Sesssion, Artists’ Forum: Underwater Cables & Global Digital Infrastructure
This session, titled ‘Underwater Cables & Global Digital Infrastructure’, will be led by Ian Purnell, and Southbound Studio members, Kamil Adam Hassim, and Benji Anstey, who will be in conversation with the CHR’s Premesh Lalu.
Come move mountains at the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, Saturday 16 December 2023 at the Barrydale Sports Ground Dahlia Avenue Barrydale.
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Ghent Africa Platform Lecture by Premesh Lalu in Honour of Nelson Mandela, which will take place at the Greatmore Humanities Hub on 13 November 2023.
The CHR welcomes Ruth Barton as a visiting professor on the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture and documentary film screening about the legacy of the Irish Troubles on film. This lecture will be followed by an afternoon discussion on Irish cinema and ecocriticism.
ICGC Visiting Scholar and the CHR’s Convener of the Factory of the Arts, Itumuleng Wa Lehulere, will be giving a lecture at the ICGC Colloquium Series, on 8 September 2023, as part of his residency at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.
The Maxeke - Robinson Research Chair, Eoin Mcnamee, will be leading a creative writing workshop at the Wits Writing Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, on 24 August.
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network
Kitso Lelliot’s exhibition, ‘To dream a more livable place...a performance in anticipation’, will be staged as part of this year’s Winter School Programme.