June 10, 2024
Abstracts are invited for participation in the annual workshop in Visual History & Theory to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, on 19-20 September 2024.
June 5, 2024
We are delighted to announce that The Return, a film by Mark Kaplan and Heidi Grunebaum, will premiere at Encounters Film Festival on 22 June in Cape Town (Labia) and on 30 June in Johannesburg (The Zone, Rosebank).
June 4, 2024
We are pleased to announce the publication of an African Economic History special issue on: Economic Sovereignty in South Africa. Edited by Ndumiso Dladla and Anjuli Webster, and featuring CHR research affiliate Bongani Ndlovu.
May 31, 2024
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida as Senior Researchers at the Centre for Humanities Research.
May 27, 2024
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’.
May 14, 2024
The Centre for Humanities Research and its Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair are delighted to partner with and host portions of the Global Brain Health Institute’s (GBHI) Annual Conference in Cape Town.
April 22, 2024
Between the 12th and the 18th of March CHR faculty and colleagues from the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society met for a ten-day workshop on the question: What is the University for?
April 19, 2024
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) are pleased to announce an open call for a year-long museum fellowship programme, developed to educate a new generation of art and museum professionals in Africa.
April 16, 2024
Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin, will open on Fri 26 April at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
April 8, 2024
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening 'Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ (88 minutes, Ireland, 2019) by Adam Low on Wednesday 17 April 2024, which will be followed by a QnA with the director.
April 4, 2024
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott.
March 27, 2024
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.