May 6, 2026
We are delighted to announce that Morna Regan and Lynne Parker will be joining the CHR for its annual Winter School Programme and as part of the Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair.
April 28, 2026
The CHR was delighted to host and be associated with the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), who held a summit at Iyatsiba Lab in April 2026.
April 20, 2026
The term “transitional justice” rose to prominence after 1995, when the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) published its three-volume series Transitional Justice (Kritz, ed). In the decades since, and corresponding to the end of the Cold War and defeat of the Soviet Union, the field appeared to flourish.
March 31, 2026
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
March 30, 2026
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
March 30, 2026
Facts and Fabulations, an exhibition of the New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab will open on 9 April, 2026. The opening will be preceded by a short talk by the curator Marcos Martins and the assistant curator Katlego Tiisetso Nkoana.
March 30, 2026
March 25, 2026
The CHR would like to thank the publisher, K. Verlag, for their generous donation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression - What is Called Caring? Vol. 1. to the CHR and fellows of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics.
March 13, 2026
The Invasion of Melos, an adaptation of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue, by Colin Murphy will be performed by the Performing Arts Collective on Thursday 19 March, 2026. This performance is being staged as part of the Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair, and will be followed by a discussion with Colin Murphy.
March 6, 2026
On Wednesday, 11 March, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will co-host a discussion titled Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City.
March 6, 2026
FRAYMWURX (2025) is a limited edition zine created as a companion artefact for ‘Tales of History Retold’ (2025), a group exhibition co-curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom at Iyatsiba Lab, University of the Western Cape, and is now available in digital form.
March 3, 2026
The CHR would like to thank the publisher, K. Verlag, for their generous donation of Bernard Stiegler’s The Immense Regression - What is Called Caring? Vol. 1. to the CHR and fellows of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics.