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Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities
The Other Universals Consortium and CODESRIA invite you to a webinar with Professor Mahmood Mamdani about his new book Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.
It’s a Feminist Thing
CHR Acting-Director Professor Heidi Grunebaum was a guest on Soul City’s ‘It’s A Feminist Thing’.
A Conversation with Patricia Hayes
Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
AVA podcast interview with, CHR Artist in Residence, Chumisa Fihle and Bruce Bowale
Artist in Residence, Chumisa Fihle and Bruce Bowale, recently featured on Episode One of AVA’s podcast series titled ‘Lounge+’.
Music and the Remaking of the World: An Interview with Valmont Layne
Dr Valmont Layne, Next-Generation Scholar at the Centre for Humanities Research NRF Flagship, recently participated in a podcast for National Public Radio in the USA.
Re-Centring Afro Asia Conference
The CHR presented a panel with the Centres’ Patricia Hayes, Luis Gimenez and Kiasha Naidoo, chaired by Ross Truscott discussing the possibilities and approaches to the invocation of the precolonial at the recently convened Afro-Asia Conference.
Reboot Eden: Celebrating Ten Years of Puppetry in Barrydale
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (CHR), in partnership with Net vir Pret are celebrating 10 years of puppetry in Barrydale. Reboot Eden will be an online program of four new puppet performances that will be available online from the 16th -19th December 2020.
Reboot Eden: The Art of Recovery
For the past ten years the Centre for Humanities Research’s Laboratory of Kinetic Objects has been engaged in a mutual education and arts initiative (along with partners Net Vir Pret, Handspring Puppet Company, uKwanda Puppetry and Design Collective, and Magpie Collective) in the village of Barrydale some three hours outside of Cape Town. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, this years Barrydale parade is set to convene remotely.
Global Narratives of Artificial Intelligence: Sub-Saharan Africa – African Histories and Philosophies of Artificial Intelligence
The CHR’s Professor Jane Taylor will be participating in this weeks Global Narratives of Artificial Intelligence: Sub-Saharan Africa – African Histories and Philosophies of Artificial Intelligence conference hosted by the HSRC and the University of Cambridge.
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Decolonizing Theory: Thinking Across Traditions
A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Aditya Nigam
Radical Disenchantment
A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
Publics and Policing: Spies, Surveillance, and Colonial Subjects in Anti-Colonial French Politics
A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Nancy Luxon
Encounters Film Festival: The Letter
As part of the Communicating the Humanities project at the Centre for Humanities Research, Next Generation Scholar, Valmont Layne, will be in conversation with Steve Akoth, Christine van Zyl and The Letter’s co-directors Maia Lekow and Christopher King.
The Museum Today with Jane Taylor
Professor Jane Taylor will be giving a zoom talk on the new exhibition of the South African sculptor, Jackson Hlungwani, on ,Thursday 20th August at 6 pm.
The Black Aquatic: On Water, Art and Black Movement
A Winter School webinar with Professor Rinaldo Walcott
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Adom Getachew.
In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting an online seminar with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
LoKO: Seminar One
These online seminars will pursue many of the questions which we would pursue in the normal course of things; although things are anything but normal.
Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation
The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
Seminar: Meleesha Bardolia
The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
Domeitta Torlasco visits the CHR
Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.
Global Apartheid: A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty
A seminar course on Global Apartheid co-taught by Professor Cesare Casarino and Dr. Ross Truscott will take place in the first semester of 2020.
Democracy: Genealogies, Concepts, and Practices
A conference hosted by the CHR from 17 – 18 December 2019 will explore the relationship between the genealogy, the concept and the practice of democracy.
The Final Spring
2019’s edition of the annual giant puppet parade and performance in Barrydale features electro-acoustic musical compositions, fantastical masked creatures, and a narrative exploring the global climate crisis and ecological disaster.
Call for Proposal to Organise a Workshop
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2021.
Seminar: Sam Longford
Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial
A Public Conversation with Mamela Nyamza
Mamela Nyamza is an award-winning artist, choreographer, dancer and performer.
Seminar: Fernanda Pinto de Almeida
Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s ‘Berlin Wall’
The Last Season
This year’s annual giant puppet parade and performance in Barrydale features electro-acoustic musical compositions, fantastical masked creatures, and a narrative exploring the global climate crisis and ecological disaster.
Seminar: Mahvish Ahmed
Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan’s Jabbal
Other Lives of the Image: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory
From 4 – 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.
Seminar: Mwayi Lusaka
Heritage of Diplomacy Or ‘Scottish Exceptionalism?’:The Memory of David Livingstone and Malawi – Scotland Relations
The South African Students’ Organisation and the Black Consciousness Legacy
Dr. Saleem Badat
Seminar: Elizabeth Harney
We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto
Seminar: Annelize Kotze and Bongani Ndhlovu
Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities
Built Form, Design, and the Politics of the City
Visiting Scholars at the CHR Steve Akoth and Tom Asher will run a seminar on spatial formations as an object of analysis.
Seminar: Okechukwu Nwafor
Funeral Poster and Pre-Funeral Visual Economy in southeastern Nigeria
KINESIS: Of Moving and Being Moved
Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations, in an ongoing exploration of Animation, Animism, Thing Theory, the Subject and the Object, Puppetry Arts and performance.
Other lives of the image
Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory
Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright
A Humanities in Session Lecture by Prof. Veit Erlmann
Sex and the Profane: FAKA, Abject Erotics, and the Politics of Deviance in post-apartheid South Africa
A Humanities in Session Lecture by Assistant Professor Jordache A. Ellapen
Seminar: Claudia Gastrow
The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Aesthesis and Political Belonging
Seminar: Raquel Schefer
The Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary Mozambique: Ruy Guerra’s “Mueda, Memória e Massacre”
Seminar: Kass Banning
John Akomfrah’s Purple: Notes Towards Deciphering Habitus Beyond A Planetary Sublime
Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
The Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) Africa Workshop 2019 was hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with scholars from the CHR attending.
RIVER AND REDFIN
The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018
Seminar: Philipp Schorch
Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post) colonial exhibitions, and the ‘cold odyssey’ of Pacific objects between East and West.
The Subject Races: Populations, Classifications, Justice
The workshop is therefore interested in how we might think, conceptually, historically, politically, about the figure of the subject races across these African experiences.
Decolonization and the Aesthetic Cold War: Towards an Intellectual History
Seminar by Professor Peter Kalliney
Seminar: Clémentine Deliss
Manifesto for the rights of access to colonial collections sequestered in Western Europe
The Photography of History: Sally Mann at Antietam
Keynote Lecture at International Workshop
Seminar: Stephanie Vos
Exile and Migration: Performing Connections through the Metaphor of the Train
Seminar: Swati Arora
Left to ‘biyaasi number’: Janam, Street Theatre and Urban Space in Delhi
Public Lecture: Elizabeth Giorgis
Professor Giorgis teaches Art Theory and Criticism in the Graduate School of the College of Performing and Visual Art at the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Winter School 2018
The 2018 Winter School and Retreat held from 3 – 6 July 2018 will bring together questions of desire, technology, and practice under the title After Technology.
Louis Moholo in conversation
CHR will be hosting a public conversation with jazz drumming great Louis Moholo at the Guga S’thebe Community Centre in Langa at 6.30 pm on June 8th 2018
Seminar: Sarah Godsell
“What is the point?” Potentials of Decolonising History: in teacher education spaces, and school classrooms
Public Lecture: South Africa’s Hosting of the 2018 BRICS Summit
Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies
Political Theory Reading Workshops
The Wiredu-Ezu Debate and Philosophy and “Real” Politics
CHCI Africa Workshop Addis 2019
Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
Seminar: Jacob Cloete
The pre-circulated paper for this seminar is accompanied by a short documentary by Jacob Cloete.
Workshop: Migrants, Markets and the Modalities of Rule
The Migrating Violence Research Platform of the Centre for Humanities Research presents a workshop on Migrants, Markets and the Modalities of Rule.
Collaborative Voices Part 1. Two musicians in Johannesburg in the 1980s:
Please join us for a presentation by Biddy Partridge.
Seminar: Armelle Gaulier
The Moppie Songs of the Colored Populations of Cape Town: Music and the Process of Creolization (South Africa)
Seminar: Valmont Layne
Tem Hawker, Yakhal Inkomo and the sentimental ‘avant-garde: Revisiting Cape jazz’s sonic archive’
Seminar: Redi Koobak
Seminar: Gender, Nation and War Art: Rethinking Artistic Responses to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan
Two Workshops on Missingness
A workshop hosted by: African Critical Inquiry Program (ACIP), NRF Forensic History Project and Centre for Humanities Research, UWC.
Missing Subjects and the Subjects of Missingness
in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto
Seminar: Julie MacArthur
Dissident Citizens: Genealogies of Sovereignty, Violence, and Belonging along the Kenya-Somali Frontier
Ne’er So Much The Ape
The CHR invites you to a performance of Ne’er So Much The Ape, a work produced, directed and written by Professor Jane Taylor, and performed by Jane Taylor, Tony Miyambo and Terry Norton .
New Jerusalem
The CHR is pleased to invite you to the opening of ‘New Jerusalem’, an exhibition of photographic work by the Visual History class of 2017.
Seminar: G. Arunima
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Workshop: the (visual) subject
International Workshop on Visual History and Theory, Cape Town, 22-23 September 2017
Seminar: Fernando Rosa
Travelling Spirits and the Civilisation de l’universel: Apotropaic Writing and the Myth of Disenchantment
Seminar: Ross Truscott
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
2018 African Critical Inquiry Workshop
Organizers of Missing and Missed, the 2018 ACIP Workshop: Nicky Rousseau and Ciraj Rassool
Justice After Genocide: Namibia, Germany and Colonial Amnesia
Reinhart Kössler, a German scholar who studies the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the genocide
Seminar: Natasha Vally
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Roger Levine
Lived Racism in Segregation-era South Africa: a research agenda and a case study
Conversations: Hilton Schilder
Conversations is a new series of public dialogues with jazz musicians and their legacies convened by […]
Seminar: Todd Cleveland
Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of History, University of the Western Cape South […]
Documentary Film Workshop
From 18 - 20 April 2017, the CHR in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute […]
Seminar: Women Miners and Mining Spaces
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Reading Group and Seminar with Prof. Carlos Forment
Citizenship and Justice: Rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy.
Seminar: Cleaning the Slate of Distrust
The Vance Mission and the (Dis-)appearance of the ‘Amnesty Question’ on/from the Agenda of the Transitional Negotiations and in internal ANC
Seminar: Gramsci’s Bergson
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Voortrekker Gateways Exhibition Opening
Please join us for the opening of ‘Voortrekker Gateways’, an exhibition of work by Visual […]
Nigel Gibson Seminar on Fanon
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Workshop: Violent Pasts, Violent Futures?
The Migrating Violence research platform of the CHR presents a day workshop titled: Violent Pasts, […]
“Freedom Within the Walls:” Thomas Mott Osborne’s Participatory Panopticon
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: The African Resistance Fighter Jacon Marengo
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Hostile Visual Encounters
Seminar in Contemporary History & Humanities Special Seminar Hostile visual encounters: fighting to control photographic […]
Seminar: State-Building and Techno-politics in Somaliland
South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
In Equity: Experiences in the Arts
The Factory of the Arts presents a workshop and conversation on, “In Equity: Experiences in the Arts”.
Truth and Reconciliation Commission Workshop
As part of a three-year collaborative venture with the CHR and the Jackman Humanities Institute […]
From Mozambique to the Cape: Performance Encounters in Music, Masks, Movement, Poetry and Painting
Venue: at the Factory of the Arts Time: 7pm Date: Tuesday 29 November. The Factory […]
Olifantland – Barrydale parade
The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance brings you Olifantland, a multilingual visual theatre show […]
Visual Gateways Exhibition
Between February and May 2016 postgraduate students in Visual History from UWC took their cameras […]
Global Apartheid Course at the CHR
A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty February – May 2017 Centre for Humanities Research Professor Cesare […]
Video: State Capture?
Earlier this year we had an important Local Government Election. Now, as we debate how […]
TRC workshop programme
The TRC workshop is the inaugural activity of the CHR's collaborative partnership with the Jackman […]
Seminar: Education or State Politics? – Elizabeth Giorgis
Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Addis Ababa University Dullah Omar Centre for […]
Seminar: State Capture?
The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities […]
Joint Seminar: Jennifer Tucker and George Agbo
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by George Agbo: The Technology of Visual Digital Activism
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by Shari Eppel: Bones In The Forest
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]
Mothers’ pensions and the ‘civilised’ black poor: the racialised provision of child maintenance grants, 1921-1940
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by Rachel Hatcher: The Omnipresent Chameleon
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar by Bongani Ndhlovu: ‘Apartheid’s Golden Age’
Reconnoitring alternative forms of resistance to apartheid South Africa, c1966-1979
Seminar: The Making of MK: Whose Violence & to What End? The Debates of 1960–1 – Paul S. Landau
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Empty photographs: Ethnography and the lacunae of African history: Patricia Hayes
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Global Apartheid – A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty
DST NRF Flagship Next Generation Researcher Dr. Maurits Van Bever Donker will be co-teaching a […]
A Tale of Two Cities: Finding Storyville in the Archives: A Seminar by Emily Landau
The CHR DST/NRF Flagship in Critical Thought in African Humanities and the Women’s and Gender […]
Exhibition Launch: USAKOS: Photographs beyond Ruins
The Centre for Humanities Research and the Library invite you to the launch of an […]
Seminar: Portugal’s Photographic Play: Drew Thompson
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
On the Subject of Citizenship: A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and Subject
A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject
Seminar: The Performance of Race: Passing-Out Parades, Street Soccer, the ‘Civilized Body’, and the Creation of the ‘Perfect Other’ (c. 1940s-1960s)
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar
Virgil Slade (Department of History
2017 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: Secret Affinities
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2017 ACIP workshop […]
Seminar: The Practice of Post-Apartheid Freedom
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: The Postman and the Tramp: Commitment in an Age of Cynicism
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Other Universals Public Lecture: “Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis and the World We Live In”
Other Universals presents a public lecture by Dr. Aaron Kamugisha (Cultural Studies, University of the […]
The University and its Worlds: A Panel Discussion with Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, and David Theo Goldberg
The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities invites you to a panel discussion on […]
Seminar: Stasis Anxiety: Contemporary Fictions of South African ‘Waithood’
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Seminar: Traversing the Social
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]
Seminar: Mueda Massacre: The Musical Archive
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]
Usakos – Photographs Beyond Ruins: The Old Location Albums
Namibian exhibition on photography and forced removal now opens at the District Six Museum […]
Artist in Residence Mongi Mthombeni premieres ‘I See You’ at Royal Court
Mongi Mthombeni, an artist in residence at the Centre for Humanities Research, premieres his play, […]
Art Week Cape Town 2016
The Factory of the Arts, a satellite of the CHR at UWC will be participating […]
The Insurrections Ensemble returns
The Insurrections Ensemble returns to the Homecoming Centre at District Six for two performances on […]
Lecture in African Humanities and Letters Hassan El Geretly Neo Muyanga
On 20 February 2015, the Centre for Humanities Research hosted the first Distinguished Lecture in […]
Interruptions: Posters from the Community Arts Project Archive
Open Design Festival, Cape Town City Hall, 13 – 23 August 2014
Quarter Gallery, Regis Centre for Art, University of Minnesota, 18 November – 10 December 2014
Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project Archive
Art.b Gallery, Bellville, 8 May – 18 June 2012
Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, 18 August 2012 – 12 April 2013
Qadri Ismail
Qadri Ismail is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, USA, and has also been a journalist in Sri Lanka.
Richa Nagar
Richa Nagar is currently Professor of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of […]
Dag Henrichsen
Dag Henrichsen is a Namibian historian and archivist based at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) […]
Marissa Moorman
Marissa Moorman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the African Studies […]
Naomi Scheman
Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University […]
Partha Chatterjee
Partha Chatterjee is a political theorist and historian at Columbia University, New York City. He […]
Sanil V
Dr Sanil Viswanathan Nair (preferred: Sanil V.) is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of […]
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar
Alejandro Castillejo-Cuéllar is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the […]
Timothy Campbell
Timothy Campbell is Professor of Italian in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University, […]
Mu-chou Poo
Professor Poo has worked and taught at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan University, University of California, […]
Adam Sitze
A MacArthur Scholar from 1996 to 2003 at the University of Minnesota, Adam Sitze is […]
Nivedita Menon
Nivedita Menon is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Politics & Political Theory, School of […]
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Souleymane Bachir Diagne is Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology and the […]
Jon Soske
Jon Soske is Professor of Modern African History at the University of Toronto, Canada. He […]
Hidden voices in the arts after apartheid
Iziko South African National Gallery (Iziko SANG), 16 February 2013
