May 29, 2026
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.
May 26, 2026
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations.
May 22, 2026
The CHR, in collaboration with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Iziko Museums of South Africawill be hosting in Slavery’s Wake: making Black Freedom in the World, on 27 May 2026.
May 21, 2026
The exhibition Facts and Fabulations is the outcome of a Digital Curatorial Fellowship from the New Archival Visions Programme at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research. The project demonstrates how academic research can become a public, accessible, and participatory cultural experience.
May 19, 2026
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2027. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics, or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
May 15, 2026
This session focuses on the work and photography of Cedric Nunn, who will be in conversation with Candice Jansen.
May 12, 2026
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Little Museum of Dublin are proud to present Together/Apart, which opened in Ireland in May and will open in South Africa in August.
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.