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READ MORE Bitter Aloe: Using Machine Learning to reframe Human Rights research in South Africa.

Prof. Stephen Davis will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, February 26th on his ongoing Bitter Aloe project.
READ MORE Patricia Parker appointed as Extraordinary Professor at UWC.

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.
READ MORE The Global Silencing of Racism: A book discussion on Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
September 15, 2020

Zeitz: Radical Solidarity Summit

The CHR is delighted to announce Doctoral fellow, Phokeng Setai, and part-time research assistant in the curatorial department at the Zeitz MOCCA, will be in conversation with filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese about his films Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (2019), at the Zeitz MOCCA: Radical Solidarity Summit.
September 8, 2020

Radical Disenchantment

A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
September 5, 2020

Leaving Zion

A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Heidi Grunebaum
September 5, 2020

African Critical Inquiry Programme Announces 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award

Our warm congratulations to CHR doctoral fellow, Nsima Udo for being named recipient of the African Critical Inquiry Programme's 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award for his doctoral project, "The Politics of Aesthetics and Performance: Visuality and the Remaking of Culture in the Calabar Festival and Carnival, 2004-2019." A fantastic achievement!
September 1, 2020

Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’)

The CHR congratulates post-doctoral fellow, Dr Rike Sitas, on her latest publication: ‘Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’) in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.