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            READ MORE New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025

            The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
            READ MORE Forthcoming events at the CHR

            Updated 09 September 2025
            READ MORE Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

            The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
            August 22, 2025

            Artists Forum: with Phokeng Setai

            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.
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            August 5, 2025

            Residency Re-Sourced: Public Lecture by Kim Gurney

            Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
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            July 18, 2025

            Artists Forum: Future Forms: DIY Institution – Building

            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
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            June 17, 2025

            Artists Forum: Shakespeare to Gaza

            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
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            May 21, 2025

            Artists Forum with Fatima Dike

            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.
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            June 22, 2022

            Eduardo Mondlane: social scientist, cosmopolitan and nationalist

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Livio Sansone.
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            June 22, 2022

            Re-Imagining Race through Daai za Lady & Butoh

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by dancer and choreographer, theatre-maker and director, producer, and academic researcher, jackï job.
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            March 18, 2022

            Our Ghosts Were Once People

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a conversation with Bongani Kona on his new edited volume Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying (Jonathan Ball, 2021).
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            October 7, 2021

            Twice Heard and Newly Told

            Join the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 12 October 2021 for “Twice heard and newly told,” a paper by Phindi Mnyaka.
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            September 15, 2021

            Archival Futures and Research: Preservation, Access and UWC’s Digital Infrastructure

            Prof. Patricia Hayes and Dr Valmont Layne investigate how UWC can revitalise its archival holdings for preservation, teaching, research access, and public programmes.
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            September 8, 2021

            Everything that was made was not destroyed…

            CHR Artist in Residence Juan Orrantia will present his ongoing artistic work “Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 14 September 2021.
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            August 11, 2021

            The Long Emancipation

            The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a discussion of Rinaldo Walcott's The Long Emancipation on 17 August 2021.
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            • New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025
              September 10, 2025
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              September 9, 2025
            • Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy
              September 9, 2025
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