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February 23, 2023

Race and Caste

The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.

February 13, 2023

Rui Assubuji: Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship

The CHR congratulates Rui Assubuji on his recent appointment as Research Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Rui is currently a Research Associate within the SARChi Chair of Visual History and Theory and will be joining colleagues in Toronto in September where he will be working on his book manuscript and a multi-media exhibition based on the below proposal.

February 6, 2023

Revisiting Sophiatown Writers: Bloke Modisane and Can Themba

A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research

February 5, 2023

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi’.

On 25 November, 2022, Suren Pillay took part in a working group session co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Dehli, on ‘Decolonial Thinking in a Comparative Perspective’.

January 23, 2023

Book Launch: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for the book launch of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Aprtheid.

January 23, 2023

MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”

This production premieres at the Star Theatre at the District Six Homecoming Centre (formerly the Fugard Theatre) on the 7th February until the 11th February 2023.

December 9, 2022

The Net vir Pret Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance: 18 December 2022

Rehearsals are full steam ahead in Barrydale for the 2022 Puppet Performance and Parade created and produced by members of the CHR and aesthetic education partner, Net vir Pret.

December 1, 2022

Foreigner by Manfred Zylla (CHR/UWC art collection)

Planetary Humanities for Planetary Knowledge: Toward a New Research Agenda

The Planetary Humanities Workshop takes place on 2 and 3 December, 2022 in Cape Town

November 17, 2022

Mandela and Tragedy, Tutu and the Political Transfiguration of South Africa: New Approaches to Biography

A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research

November 15, 2022

Panya Routes: Independent Art Spaces in Africa

The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of CHR Research Fellow Kim Gurney’s new book Panya Routes: Independent art spaces in Africa (Motto, 2022), which was carried out in her capacity as an affiliated Research Associate at UCT’s African Centre for Cities.

November 15, 2022

AVA board member announcement.

CHR doctoral fellow, Phokeng Setai, has been appointed to serve on the board of the Association of the Visual Arts (AVA).

November 10, 2022

New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2022-25)

The CHR is offering a range of research grants and fellowships in 2022-2025 to support new research activity in the UWC archives.