Global dis:connect Academic Advisory Board announcement
We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
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A listening session with Leila Bencharnia
The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
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DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
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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.
The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
This lecture will inaugurate the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and open an exhibition on 25 years of the Good Friday Agreements between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.