June 27, 2025
Kim Gurney’s latest publication for The Conversation discusses five indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about.
June 23, 2025
The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor Diana Vives at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. Originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, The Sky Beneath is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to a theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge.
June 18, 2025
The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
June 17, 2025
Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
June 17, 2025
The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency
June 9, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
June 6, 2025
The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
June 2, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
May 28, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
May 21, 2025
The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.
May 20, 2025
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.
May 16, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.