March 13, 2024
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
February 19, 2024
The CHR and DFA DocLOVE invite you to a free screening of award-winning Moroccan documentary, The Mother of All Lies.
February 16, 2024
Through the years the annual parade and performance in Barrydale has brought together artists, scholars, researchers and publics not only from across Barrydale and Cape Town, but nationally and internationally as well.
November 28, 2023
The Centre for Humanities Research research is pleased to anounce the debut broadcast on Cape Town Television of a collection of films made in its Documentary Film Programme on 1 December 2023.
October 13, 2023
The CHR hosted its annual Winter School in August at the Greatmore Humanities Hub in Woodstock, Cape Town.
July 20, 2023
The recording for a book launch of Premesh Lalu’s Undoing Apartheid is now available via the below link.
March 23, 2023
The Jackman Humanities Institute (JHI), University of Toronto, held an online book launch and panel discussion of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Apartheid, on Tuesday, 14 March.
March 2, 2023
The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.
December 9, 2022
Rehearsals are full steam ahead in Barrydale for the 2022 Puppet Performance and Parade created and produced by members of the CHR and aesthetic education partner, Net vir Pret.
August 12, 2022
A documentary feature film co-directed, co- filmed and co-produced by the CHR documentary film course convenor Francois Verster with fellow filmmaker Simon Wood, has just garnered the Best South African Documentary Award at the 2022 Durban International Film Festival.
July 21, 2022
The CHR is excited to announce Professor of International Relations Theory and African Political Thought, Siba Grovogui, gave a lecture at the Centre for Humanities Research.
July 13, 2022
Premesh Lalu’s documentary film, The Double Future’s of Athlone, which was sold out at the Encounters documentary film festival in Cape Town and Johannesburg, will be screened online at the Durban International Film Festival from July 21-30, 2022.