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READ MORE Call for Papers: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, October 2026

Application deadline: 17 July
READ MORE Public Lecture: 'Moving Between Facts and Fabulations: Some Notes' with Marcos Martins, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

A public lecture in conjunction with the CHR annual Winter School Programme.
READ MORE Film Screening and Lecture: Border? What Border?, with Morna Regan and Lynne Parker

A Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair film screening and lecture, in conjunction with the CHR's annual Winter School Programme.
March 16, 2023

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023

H.E. Fionnuala Gilsenan, Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, and the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Professor Tyrone Pretorius, are proud to announce the launch of UWC’s Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair at the Centre for Humanities Research.
March 9, 2023

OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices

Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are pleased to announce the start of a joint project, OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices, and an open call for artist residency applications from sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in southern Africa.
February 13, 2023

Rui Assubuji: Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship

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.
February 5, 2023

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi’.

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’.