The Centre for Humanities Research hosts a number of events such as public lectures, exhibitions and performances.You can view news items on these events as well as related video, audio and photographic material here.
In Search of Africa(s): Postcolonialism and the Universal
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting an online seminar with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Die Virus
The song was inspired by a request made to Selanvor (who is fast becoming one of Barrydale’s celebrated young artists) from residents of the village, to create an artistic response to the virus and the time we are in now.
The Humanities in Session with Kitso Lelliott
The CHR’s A.W.Mellon Artist in Residence in Image and postdoctoral fellow, Kitso Lelliott was invited by the Kunstverein Braunschweig , Germany to create a work of video installations for the exhibition, THE FACULTY OF SENSING – Thinking With, Through, and by Anton Wilhelm Amo.
Premesh Lalu in virtual conversation
The virtual conversation took place on Thursday, 30 April 2020.
Suren Pillay speaks on xenophobic violence
Professor Suren Pillay of the CHR participated in a conversation around xenophobic violence in South Africa.
Video: Soft Thresholds
The CHR in partnership with African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and UCT School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatic and Wolff Architects hosted a lecture titled Soft Thresholds by practicing architect and educator Rahul Mehrotra.
A Look Back at the 2019 Mellon Africa Humanities Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
In January, CHCI held its first Africa Humanities Workshop in Addis Ababa, hosted by Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Criticism and Theory in the College of Performing and Visual Art and the Center for African Studies at Addis Ababa University.
RIVER AND REDFIN
The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018
A Future Museum Against Apartheid
This short documentary film showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection.
Renosterbos: Barrydale Festival 2017
The end of each year, for Handspring Puppet Company and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR, DST-NRF Flagship), has in the past eight years culmin
Olifantland
The Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Handspring Puppet Company, Ukwanda, Net […]
Film Screening: Noma
The CHR's platform on Aesthetics and Politics invites you to a film screening as part […]
Olifantland – Trailer
A Film by Stanley John The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance, called Olifantland, a […]
People You May Know: A Performance at the Factory of the Arts
People You May Know was a collaborative performance and exhibition featuring Dathini Mzayiya, Brydon Bolton, […]
Die Name Wat Ons Gee/The Names That We Give
2015 Barrydale Festival with Net Vir Pret and Handspring Puppet Company
Encounters Festival: Films by UWC’s CHR fellows and Department of English students
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to announce the debut of two short films and a full length film at t
“The Crisis in Syria”: A Question of Futures’ by Na’eem Jeenah
The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities, a satellite project of the […]
