READ MOREA Tribute to Tiisetso Dladla (1985-2026): PhD fellow New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR, UWC
It seems unthinkable to be sharing a tribute for Tiisetso Dladla who passed away in Johannesburg on 11 August 2026. We are shocked and heartbroken at UWC where Tiisetso was a doctoral fellow of the New Archival Visions (NAV) at the Centre for Humanities Research, with her PhD registered in the Department of Historical Studies.READ MORECharlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Burn/t Out, The Legacy of Forced Displacement During North(ern) Ireland’s ‘Troubles’
The CHR, in collaboration with the District Six Homecoming Centre, welcomes Brendan Ciarán Browne, visiting scholar of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair, who will present a public lecture on Tuesday 25 August 2026, at the District Six Homecoming Centre.READ MOREHumanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Reza Khota
This session will be led by Reza Khota who is a guitarist/composer who has performed, recorded and toured professionally in South Africa and Internationally for over 25 years.’
Richa Nagar is currently Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Working at the nexus of transnational and postcolonial feminisms, […]
Dag Henrichsen is a Namibian historian and archivist based at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in Switzerland, and a part-time lecturer in African history at […]
Marissa Moorman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies Program at Indiana University. An historian of southern Africa, she […]
Partha Chatterjee is a political theorist and historian at Columbia University, New York City. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, and received his Ph.D. […]
Dr Sanil Viswanathan Nair (preferred: Sanil V.) is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, […]
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes (University of the Andes) in Bogotá, […]
Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, New York. In addition to authoring Wireless Writing in the […]
Professor Poo has worked and taught at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan University, University of California, Columbia University, Grinnell College, and is now Chair Professor of […]
A MacArthur Scholar from 1996 to 2003 at the University of Minnesota, Adam Sitze is currently Associate Professor of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at […]
Nivedita Menon is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, […]