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READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
READ MORE Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s)...
READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
October 21, 2024

Tareq Baconi

Research fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC
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October 8, 2024

What does apartheid mean for Israel: Reflections in a time of genocide

This Humanities in Session Series seminar is based on Tareq Baconi’s ongoing research into the conflict in Palestine/Israel.
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October 4, 2024

Public Arts Museums and their futures

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with Art Africa.
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October 2, 2024

The CHR and Boschendal’s joint Heritage Day Arts Education Workshops and Puppetry Parade

On Tuesday 24 September 2024, the CHR took part in the Boschendal Heritage Day festivities, which involved puppet making workshops with school learners, and a giant puppet parade through Boschendal farm.
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September 10, 2024

Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep Time, Shallow Time

The 2024 Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place on 19-20 September at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
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August 20, 2024

Prof. Marcos Martins

Superior School of Design, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro
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July 31, 2024

Legitimising Theatre in the Postcolony: Six Myths

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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July 8, 2024

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.

The CHR welcomes the Maxeke–Robinson Research Chair, Rita Duffy, will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Wednesday 24 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July.
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July 4, 2024

2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in African University Museums.
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June 28, 2024

Imperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati in conversation with Candice Jansen (New Archival Visions Digital Curatorial Fellow).
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June 12, 2024

Dr Kurt Campbell

Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town
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May 27, 2024

Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting: …At Risk

From May 28-June 1, 2024, the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host the CHCI’s Annual Meeting. On 30 May, the CHR’s Professor Maurits van Bever Donker will chair a discussion on ‘Humanities at Risk’.
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  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
  • Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom
    October 29, 2025
  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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