READ MORELessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice
Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.READ MORENew Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). READ MOREForthcoming events at the CHR
Updated 09 September 2025
The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.
The CHR congratulates Rui Assubuji on his recent appointment as Research Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Rui is currently a Research Associate within the SARChi Chair of Visual History and Theory and will be joining colleagues in Toronto in September where he will be working on his book manuscript and a multi-media exhibition based on the below proposal.
On 25 November, 2022, Suren Pillay took part in a working group session co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Dehli, on ‘Decolonial Thinking in a Comparative Perspective’.
This production premieres at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.
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.
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of CHR Research Fellow Kim Gurney’s new book Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa (Motto, 2022), which was carried out in her capacity as an affiliated Research Associate at UCT’s African Centre for Cities.