April 3, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you.
March 27, 2025
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
March 24, 2025
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.
March 11, 2025
Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.
March 11, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Maurits van Bever Donker has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
March 10, 2025
CHR Extraordinary Professor, Erich Hörl, will be giving a series of seminars and a public lecture in March at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
February 27, 2025
Hosted by The Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC)
February 23, 2025
The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
February 11, 2025
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening James Joyce's ULYSSES (88 minutes, UK, 2022) by Adam Low on Thursday 27 February 2025, followed by a Q&A with the director.
February 5, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for Honours, Masters and Doctoral awards in 2025, convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.
February 3, 2025
Trains toTaung was remastered and released in February 2025 as a double vinyl with additional tracks composed and performed by the legendary Cape Town born pianist, Paul Hanmer.
January 27, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for postdoctoral awards in 2025 convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities. In this round, the CHR will make two fellowship awards.