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READ MORE ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications, 2026

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences and invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2027. ACIP is a partnership between the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the...
READ MORE 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.
READ MORE Barrydale 2025: Steek my Weg

Join us for the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, 14 December 2025 at the BFO Primary School, Tinley Street, Barrydale.
September 8, 2020

Radical Disenchantment

A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
September 5, 2020

Leaving Zion

A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Heidi Grunebaum
September 1, 2015

Seminars 2014

400      25 February: Suren Pilllay (CHR, UWC), Migrating violence: Community, citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa 401      11 March: Desiree Lewis (Women’s and Gender […]
September 1, 2015

Seminars 2013

374      12 February: Geraldine Frieslaar (CHR, UWC) & Olusegun Morakinyo (Robben Island Museum), The UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives and the African Programme in Museum […]