Natasha Vally
Next Generation Scholar
South African Social Assistance and the 2012 Privatised National Payment System: An examination of insecurities and technopolitics in social grant administration and payment. She has undergraduate and honours degrees in mathematics and genetics and holds a Masters degree in history. She works, across disciplines, on the technopolitical in post-apartheid South Africa. Her favourite movie is Blade Runner, she awaits the sequel with anticipation.
Humanities in Session: Indenture Aesthetics in South Africa with Jordache Ellapen
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.
Encounters Documentary Film Festival: Encounters Talks
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.
Workshop: The Physics of Technocultural Locations
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations.
Public Workshop: In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World
The CHR, in collaboration with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Iziko Museums of South Africawill be hosting in Slavery’s Wake: making Black Freedom in the World, on 27 May 2026.
Facts and Fabulations
The exhibition Facts and Fabulations is the outcome of a Digital Curatorial Fellowship from the New Archival Visions Programme at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research. The project demonstrates how academic research can become a public, accessible, and participatory cultural experience.
DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA (NRF) Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics, & SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
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 2027. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics, or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
Humanities in Session: Artist Forum with Cedric Nunn
This session focuses on the work and photography of Cedric Nunn, who will be in conversation with Candice Jansen.
Exhibition Launch: Together/Apart
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Little Museum of Dublin are proud to present Together/Apart, which opens on Wednesday 13 May in Ireland.
Charlotte Maxeke – Mary Robinson Research Chair Announcement
We are delighted to announce that Morna Regan and Lynne Parker will be joining the CHR for its annual Winter School Programme and as part of the Charlotte Maxeke – Mary Robinson Research Chair.
IFAA summit
The CHR was delighted to host and be associated with the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), who held a summit at Iyatsiba Lab in April 2026.