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September 9, 2025

Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.

August 28, 2025

Social Sciences Research Council Award Announcement: Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay

We are delighted to announce that New Archival Visions Fellows, Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay, have been awarded Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal Fellowships with the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC).

August 25, 2025

Tyranny, The Third Term

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.

August 22, 2025

Artists Forum: with Phokeng Setai

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.

August 19, 2025

ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.

August 18, 2025

Research and Activisim: Ruth First & Activist Research

The book launch of Research and Activism: Ruth First & Activist Research, will take place on Wednesday 3 September (3:00pm-5:00pm) at the Iyatsiba Lab.

August 5, 2025

Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney

Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.

August 1, 2025

A Will for the Machine: Technology, History, and the Arts

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.

July 31, 2025

Centre Sogolon and Iziko Museums of South Africa MOUs

We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape have signed two historic memoranda of understanding with Compagnie Sogolon, Bamako, Mali, and Iziko Museums of South Africa.

July 30, 2025

SA Jazz – These Times

Herbie Tsoaeli, Attiyah Khan and Asher Gamedze, in conversation with Lindelwa Dalamba.

July 29, 2025

African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Maja Jakarasi as recipient of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Jakarasi, a Zimbabwean student in the Anthropology Department, is working on his PhD at the University of the Western Cape. Support from ACIP’s Ivan Karp Award will allow Jakarasi to pursue significant research for his dissertation.

July 25, 2025

Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.

And I, a newly evolved fish, an exhibition by the RE-WIRING project, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, UWC, and the CHRs Iyatsiba Lab will be opening on Friday, 8 August 2025. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a seminar focusing on watery engagements.