Workshops
- 14 – 15 October: Gesture, Movement, Freedom: On the micro, Visual History and Theory International Workshop This is a closed workshop for invited guests. For more details: https://www.chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/call-for-proposals-gesture-movement-freedom-on-the-micro-international-workshop-on-visual-history-theory-14-15-october-2025/
- 10-12 November: Culture and Technics, SA-UK Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in Culture and Technics Workshop.
This is a closed workshop for invited guests, CHR staff, and Digital Humanities Chair fellows
Exhibitions at the Iyatsiba Lab
- 8 August (opening) -20 October, ‘And I, A newly Evolved fish’, Iyatsiba Lab
- 5 November (opening) – 28 November 2025: ’Tales of History Retold’, a group exhibition co-curated by Kim Gurney & Carlyn Strydom, Iyatsiba Lab
Humanities in Session
Conversations in the Humanities in Session Seminar Series, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
- 18 September – Lauren van der Rede
- October – TBA
- November – TBA
Documentary Film Programme
ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025
- 12 September – screening and discussion of Sara de Gouveia’s film ‘Albie: A strange Alchemy’ (Details TBC)
- Oct, November, December details to follow
New Archival Visions
- September TBC – Archive Lab – Jane Taylor collection and soft launch of the library
- September TBC – Marcos Martins Seminar
Sound Working Group
A monthly series of closed reading groups and workshops for fellows and faculty exploring the connections between sound, sonic and postcoloniality.
Artists Forum
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. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency.
- 25 September – TBC
- 30 October – TBC
- 27 November – TBC