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.
February 27, 2026
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
February 19, 2026
Prof. Stephen Davis will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, February 26th on his ongoing Bitter Aloe project.
February 13, 2026
The CHR is delighted to announce that Patricia Parker has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.
February 10, 2026
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
February 9, 2026
There is a double bind to writing about performance art, or live art as it is also called. Generally speaking, live art involves combinations of the body, time and space.
February 5, 2026
The CHR’s Valmont Layne will be giving a keynote at ‘The Klopse/Minstrel tradition as intangible heritage’, a seminar organised by the Salt River Heritage Society.












