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            READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

            The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
            READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

            Updated 09 September 2025
            READ MORE 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.
            November 9, 2021

            ACIP Call for Proposals to Organise a Workshop

            The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2023.
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            November 5, 2021

            Kinetic Objects: Humans and Things and Puppets

            Kinetic Objects is a teaching collaboration emerging from the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute in the framework of the partnership on Aesthetic Education: A South North Dialogue, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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            November 4, 2021

            Former CHR Research fellow makes history as first woman Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana

            UWC congratulates Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, a former postdoctoral fellow hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research, on her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
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            November 3, 2021

            Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City

            The CHR congratulates colleague Dr Pallavi Narayan on the publication of Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City.
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            November 3, 2021

            Keynote Address: The Conjuncture of 1956

            Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
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            October 12, 2021

            In Memory of Shane Petzer

            It was with a profound sense of loss that the we learned of the death of Shane Petzer, the Social Responsibility Officer from the Magpie Art Collective.
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            October 7, 2021

            Twice Heard and Newly Told

            Join the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 12 October 2021 for “Twice heard and newly told,” a paper by Phindi Mnyaka.
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            September 16, 2021

            Stealing Time

            Join Prof. Patricia Hayes for “Photographs and the Long Inception of Colonialism in Southern Angola,” a lecture hosted by the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC) at the University of Virginia.
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            September 15, 2021

            Archival Futures and Research: Preservation, Access and UWC’s Digital Infrastructure

            Prof. Patricia Hayes and Dr Valmont Layne investigate how UWC can revitalise its archival holdings for preservation, teaching, research access, and public programmes.
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            September 8, 2021

            Everything that was made was not destroyed…

            CHR Artist in Residence Juan Orrantia will present his ongoing artistic work “Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 14 September 2021.
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            August 31, 2021

            Zeitz MOCAA and UWC Launch Pan-African Museum Fellowship Programme

            The CHR is excited to share the following announcement by the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape as they launch a year-long fellowship programme.
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            August 11, 2021

            In the Press: Tony Bonani Miyambo

            CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo confronts the momentous challenges facing theatre makers with his solo show Commission Continua, performed online for the 2021 National Arts Festival.
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            • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
              September 10, 2025
            • Forthcoming events at the CHR
              September 9, 2025
            • Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy
              September 9, 2025
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