August 25, 2023
The CHR’s Lwando Scott will be participating in this year’s Open Book Festival on 10 September 2023.
August 21, 2023
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.
August 17, 2023
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
August 10, 2023
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.
August 10, 2023
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.
August 1, 2023
The CHR, in collaboration with Berlin based partners, Akademie der Künste and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst are pleased to announce the names of artists selected from the April 2023 Oscillations Open Call for Residency. For this call, the jury reviewed 80 applications.
July 24, 2023
The latest Afrika Focus is now available. Edited by the CHR’s, Maurits van Bever Donker and Lwando Scott, this volume focuses on the question of transformative constitutionalism.
July 20, 2023
The recording for a book launch of Premesh Lalu’s Undoing Apartheid is now available via the below link.
July 19, 2023
This year’s NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place between 27-28 July. It coalesces around the title, ‘Power: Remaking selves, archives, environments’, and will include a keynote by Leigh Raiford who is Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
July 19, 2023
The CHR’s Dr Kim Gurney has contributed a chapter to a comprehensive book about the oeuvre of Bruce Arnott (1938-2018) – artist, academic and former director of The Michaelis School of Fine Art at UCT.
July 16, 2023
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.
July 13, 2023
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of the Advanced Research Seminar.