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READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources. READ MORE Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s)... READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
January 30, 2019

Sara Guyer to Join CHR as Affiliate Researcher

Professor Sara Guyer is the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes.
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January 25, 2019

Luis Gimenez Amoros Performance at Casa Labia Cultural Centre

CHR Artist in Residence and postdoctoral fellow Luis Gimenez will perform on 1 February.
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December 13, 2018

CHR Year-End Colloquium

15 November 2018
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December 13, 2018

Five CHR Fellows to Graduate

UWC December Graduation features CHR doctoral and masters fellows
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December 5, 2018

Africa and the Crisis of Globalization

The CHR supports four scholars attending the 15th CODESRIA General Assembly
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December 5, 2018

Visiting Fellows at Jackman Humanities Institute

Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue
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December 5, 2018

Land: Does the will of the majority trump the spirit of the Constitution?

Interview with Ralph Mathekga on Radio 702
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November 29, 2018

Pan Troglodyte to travel to the Université Paris

Professor Jane Taylor to present performance/lecture in November
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November 29, 2018

Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence

CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu to speak at workshop at Northwestern University
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November 29, 2018

Re-Imagining as Destruction and Creation

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to speak at Norval Foundation Symposium
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November 29, 2018

Reza Khota Quartet to play at Cape Town International Jazz Festival

CHR Artist in Residence to perform at 20th annual festival
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November 22, 2018

Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop

10 and 11 December 2018
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  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
  • Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom
    October 29, 2025
  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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