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READ MORE Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson

‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’, launched on 14 November 2025 at the Akademie der Künste (ADK). It is a project by the Akademie der Künste in collaboration with the CHR, and the Haus für Poesie, Berlin.
READ MORE Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the final session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
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.
June 30, 2016

2017 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: Secret Affinities

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June 14, 2016

Book Launch: Remembering Historian, Activist and Author Martin Legassick

You are invited by Wits University Press, UWC's Centre for Humanities Research and The Book Lounge to pay tribute to the memory of eminent historian and activist Martin Legassick at the launch of his posthumously published book
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June 10, 2016

In Service of What? The University’s Contemporary Conundrums: Public Lecture by Catarina Antunes Gomes

This is part of a lecture series on the Idea of the University in Africa.
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June 9, 2016

Reza Khota Quartet Performance at the Blah Blah Bar

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May 25, 2016

Encounters Festival: Films by UWC’s CHR fellows and Department of English students

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to announce the debut of two short films and a full length film at t
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May 20, 2016

Seminar: The Practice of Post-Apartheid Freedom

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May 13, 2016

Seminar: The Postman and the Tramp: Commitment in an Age of Cynicism

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May 13, 2016

Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”

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May 10, 2016

The University and its Worlds: A Panel Discussion with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, and David Theo Goldberg

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May 5, 2016

Seminar: Stasis Anxiety: Contemporary Fictions of South African ‘Waithood’

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April 29, 2016

Seminar: Traversing the Social

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April 26, 2016

I See You opens at the Fugard Studio Theatre in Cape Town

Acclaimed play by Mongiwekhaya will run at the Fugard from 5 - 28 May 2016
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  • Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
    November 25, 2025
  • Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO
    November 21, 2025
  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
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