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READ MORE Humanities in Session: Archive Lab, HOME: IE by Naoya Yoshikawa

The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will be hosting Naoya Yoshikawa in September at the Iyatsiba Lab, in collaboration with The Cape Town Photography Festival. Alongside this Humanities in Session: Archive Lab seminar, Yoshikawa’s exhibition, HOME: IE, will be showing at the Iyatsiba Lab’s Annex Gallery (3-26 September 2026).
READ MORE A Tribute to Tiisetso Dladla (1985-2026): PhD fellow New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR, UWC

It seems unthinkable to be sharing a tribute for Tiisetso Dladla who passed away in Johannesburg on 11 August 2026. We are shocked and heartbroken at UWC where Tiisetso was a doctoral fellow of the New Archival Visions (NAV) at the Centre for Humanities Research, with her PhD registered in the Department of Historical Studies.
READ MORE Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Burn/t Out, The Legacy of Forced Displacement During North(ern) Ireland’s ‘Troubles’

The CHR, in collaboration with the District Six Homecoming Centre, welcomes Brendan Ciarán Browne, visiting scholar of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair, who will present a public lecture on Tuesday 25 August 2026, at the District Six Homecoming Centre.
October 17, 2019

Dying For Gold Screening and Discussion

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present. Through more than a century of deep level gold mining in South Africa, a legacy of illness, death and inequality has left its mark on the Southern African continent.
October 11, 2019

Call for Papers – Revolutionary Papers: Counter-Institutions, Politics and Culture in Periodicals of the Global South workshop

The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.
October 10, 2019

Launch of Mellon South Lab in Performance Cultures and Embodied Creative Practices

The Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Per-formance and the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects is involved in an excit-ing partnership between the CHR at UWC and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia.