Mar 2, 2023

CHR Winter School, 2022: On the question of the minor
A reading by Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo

The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.
Dec 9, 2021

Winter School 2021: Fragment and Form

CHR Winter School 2021 on the theme of Fragment and Form was a hybrid event, hosted online and in-person at the Retreat at the Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek.
Jun 28, 2018

Winter School 2018

The 2018 Winter School and Retreat held from 3 – 6 July 2018 will bring together questions of desire, technology, and practice under the title After Technology.
Apr 4, 2018

Winter School Report 2017

About one hundred graduate students from a range of South African and international partner institutions participated in the Winter School Annual and the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting at the Castle of Good Hope from the 10th to the 12th August 2017.
Oct 6, 2016

Winter School 2016: What is the University for?

The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape in collaboration with the […]
May 26, 2015

Winter School 2013: Acts to Ground: On the Politics of the Humanities

May 26, 2015

2014 Winter School: Race for the Humanities

Laborie, Paarl, Western Cape, July 7-11, 2014 Convenors: CHR, UWC; SARChI Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare; Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global […]

The CHR fellowship programme will continue in 2022 through online platforms and, where permitted, limited live events hosted in compliance with COVID-19 protocols. Please follow our events page for updates about events.

For queries, please email us at

centreforhumanitiesresearch@uwc.ac.za

COVID-19 Corona Virus South African Resource Portal