The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Adom Getachew.

Green Screen, a newly launched work of creative nonfiction, follows the life of a film set created for a commercial by a team of artisans in Salt River, Cape Town, and how it morphs into a surprising series of second lives. The reader navigates this digital storymap online through a series of geolocations, visuals and text, authored by Kim Gurney and published by CHR.

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.

CHR Flagship Masters Fellow, Boitumelo Papane, is part of an ongoing initiative with students and faculty in her department at UWC in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

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.

The virtual conversation took place on Thursday, 30 April 2020.

We wish them every success as they pursue their advanced postgraduate and postdoctoral studies as CHR fellows

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.

During these strange and troubling times of planetary pandemic, lock down and physical isolation, the Centre for Humanities Research is convening a series of short performances online in “The Humanities in Session” series. As time passes, we hope to reflect on what it means for the Humanities to be “in session” in such times.

Kitso Lelliot is an Andrew W. Mellon Artist in Residence at the Centre for Humanities Research. The show is at The Södertälje Konsthall and will run from the 7th March until the 10th of May.

Excerpt Rhythm Beyond Measure: Cinema and the Life of Images

The CHR’s Professor Premesh Lalu to present a paper titled: ‘Theatrical Politics: Ubu and the Truth Commission Revisited’ at The University of Stellenbosch.

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.

Moths to the Flame: Photography and the Capitalocene

Intimacy and Violence

A student of Professor Suren Pillay, Abdsalam Alahwal, graduates with a PhD on the democratisation process in Libya after the Arab Spring.

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.

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.

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.

The CHR is a pleased to announce Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Cesare Casarino, at the University of Minnesota will be joining the Centre as a visiting scholar.

The CHR is delighted to share Ukwanda’s incredible achievements.

The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation Days.

Thozama April presented a paper at Sol Plaatje University on her research on Charlotte Maxeke on 9 January 2020.

A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.

Professor David Scott is currently Extraordinary Professor in the CHR from 2019-2021.

Professor Suren Pillay of the CHR participated in a conversation around xenophobic violence in South Africa.

The Centre for Humanities Research warmly congratulates Professor Huey Copeland on the award of the $225,000 Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene the international project, “The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation.”

Nsima Udo, CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory wins prestigious Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.

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.

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities and conducting dissertation research on relevant topics.

Mamela Nyamza is an award-winning artist, choreographer, dancer and performer.

The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures

Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial

Lady Kennaway: A Ship Story

The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present. Through more than a century of deep level gold mining in South Africa, a legacy of illness, death and inequality has left its mark on the Southern African continent.

On 7 September 2019, prolific photographer and friend of the CHR Paul Grendon passed away. Patricia Hayes offers a tribute to his life and work.

The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.

Written and directed by CHR fellow Zuko Sikhafungana, The Crime Scene is on at Theatre Arts Admin Collective in early November.

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.

The Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Per-formance and the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects is involved in an excit-ing partnership between the CHR at UWC and the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures at the University of Virginia.

Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s ‘Berlin Wall’

Afro-Asian World-Making from the Underground in Balochistan’s Jabbal

From 4 – 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.

Speculate – troubling reducibility and blackness

Professor Nauman Naqvi

Cities in Development: Between Dystopia and Utopia

The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) congratulates Professor Premesh Lalu on his 12 years as Director of the CHR, and is excited to announce the next stage of his work with the CHR and UWC.

The CHR congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate, with a thesis that focuses on the history of Goema music in Cape Town and its intricate links to Cape Jazz.

The CHR congratulates Dr. April on receiving The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award.

Opening spaces: Of Africa, slow museology, and institutional undoing

Dr. Saleem Badat

We the North? Caravan and the Crafting of a Multicultural Toronto

Subjugation, exposure and healing: Human remains, museums and indigenous communities

Visiting Scholars at the CHR Steve Akoth and Tom Asher will run a seminar on spatial formations as an object of analysis.

Heritage of Diplomacy Or ‘Scottish Exceptionalism?’:The Memory of David Livingstone and Malawi – Scotland Relations

A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.

Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey

Funeral Poster and Pre-Funeral Visual Economy in southeastern Nigeria

Nico Carstens, Disavowal, and the Perverted Mind of Apartheid

Between the months of March and May 2019, Phokeng Setai participated in a curatorial intensive residency program with the Raw Material Company in Dakar, Senegal. During this program curatorial practices were discussed in their many variations – from the early beginnings of the practice to its current formulations.

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.

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.

The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2020 ACIP workshop will be Rethinking Resilience.

The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Bronwyn Kotzen and Ngozi May Okafor as recipients of the 2019 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards.

Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable

PRODUCING IN THE PRESENT, PRESSURING THE PAST, FOR AN IMMEDIATE FUTURE. The key to the future lies in the past. The archive of the past is our immediate future. The question is not that we merely take and place the archive. We are not merely inheritors of a culture but its inherent makers.

The CHR is delighted to introduce the A.W. Mellon Artist in Residence in Sound, Image and Movement for 2019, musician and musicologist, Dr Luis Giminez.

Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” and he is described by former president Thabo Mbeki as “a fighter for the liberation of our people.”

The CHR production of Warona performed by Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective has been voted the 2019 Standard Bank Ovation Award at the Makhanda Arts Festival.

Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory

Heidi Grunebaum has been selected as one of seven manuscripts for publication in the 2019/202 Chapbook Series.

Congratulations to Jacob Cloete for completing his PhD studies in Political Studies with research topic that focuses on the politics of belonging in the complex context of North and South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This year’s Winter School holds three distinct thematic inquiries.

CHR Artist in Residence Tony Miyambo is on tour performing Kafka’s Ape and The Cenotaph of Dan Wa Moriri.

CHR Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni presents his Oratorio of A Forgotten Youth at Artscape from 15 June 2019.

Mandla Mlangeni leads the Amandla Freedom Ensemble in an interdisciplinary collaborative musical endeavour that took place in different venues in Cape Town and Stellenbosch between 12 – 16 May.

Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company

This session shares work in progress on an African Centre for Cities (ACC) research project led by Kim Gurney called Platform/ Plotform to help forward future work and interdisciplinary outputs

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Prof. Veit Erlmann

A new paper by Next Generation Scholars Lauren van der Rede and Aidan Erasmus has appeared in a global-e Special Issue Series on Mnemonic Solidarity in the Global Memory Space.

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Proffessor Sara Guyer

Of Chata: Beginnings of a Journey

and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)

The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Aesthesis and Political Belonging

Speculate – troubling reducibility and blackness

The Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop held in December of 2018 enabled a rich set of connections and convergences around questions of the curriculum.

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Professor Patrick Baert

A Humanities in Session Lecture by Assistant Professor Jordache A. Ellapen

Archival Futures in Uganda

James Chandler acknowledges the CHR in a publication on aesthetic education and sensibility.

Heidi Grunebaum, Kurt Campbell, Reza Khota, and Kitso Lelliot won awards in the Book, Creative Collection and Digital Contribution 2019 Awards Ceremony of the NIHSS.

Five new interns and three staff members from Net vir Pret participated in the week long workshops focused on Creative Arts development for After School Practitioners.

Professor Premesh Lalu attended an international conference at the Africa Institute, in Sharjah (UAE).

Public memory and political ancestors through Mozambican rap music

The Representation of Ritual and Cinema as a Ritual in Revolutionary Mozambique: Ruy Guerra’s “Mueda, Memória e Massacre”

This Grey Gulf

Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)

A lecture by Warren Crichlow

John Akomfrah’s Purple: Notes Towards Deciphering Habitus Beyond A Planetary Sublime

Critical Anthropomorphism After #MeToo: Reading The Friend

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.

The Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) Africa Workshop 2019 was hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with scholars from the CHR attending.

CHR Artist in Residence and postdoctoral fellow Luis Gimenez will perform on 1 February.

Professor Sara Guyer is the President of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes.

15 November 2018

UWC December Graduation features CHR doctoral and masters fellows

The CHR supports four scholars attending the 15th CODESRIA General Assembly

Aesthetic Education: A South-North Dialogue

Interview with Ralph Mathekga on Radio 702

CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu to speak at workshop at Northwestern University

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to speak at Norval Foundation Symposium

Professor Jane Taylor to present performance/lecture in November

CHR Artist in Residence to perform at 20th annual festival

10 and 11 December 2018

25 November 2018

The Other Universals consortium of the CHR invites you to a panel

The CHR and Net Vir Pret Annual Giant Puppet Parade and Performance, Barrydale, 16 December 2018

The life and legacy of the late Prof Jakes Gerwel, former UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, was recently celebrated with, among other things, a keynote address by anti-apartheid activist, Jay Naidoo.

CHR Artist in Residence in Jazz

Two Germanies: ethnographic museums, (post) colonial exhibitions, and the ‘cold odyssey’ of Pacific objects between East and West.

10 November 2018

Sovereignty and Ascendancy: south Asian reflections

The workshop is therefore interested in how we might think, conceptually, historically, politically, about the figure of the subject races across these African experiences.

A Performance by Jane Taylor, Tony Miyambo, and Terry Norton at the Centre for the Less Good Idea

Seminar by Professor Peter Kalliney

Human Violence and Technological Memory

This short documentary film showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection.

1 & 2 October, Theatre Arts Admin Collective

The politics of non-racialism in South Africa

LoKO (the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects) is immersed in a busy cycle of making and thinking.

Manifesto for the rights of access to colonial collections sequestered in Western Europe

Visual History Workshop – FULLY BOOKED

Next Generation Scholar Kim Gurney to give opening talk

Keynote Lecture at International Workshop

Filmmaker and human rights lawyer Shameela Seedat tracks Thuli Madonsela

Left to ‘biyaasi number’: Janam, Street Theatre and Urban Space in Delhi

A Lecture and Film Screening by Professor Chérif Keita

Plague and the Emergence of Epidemic Photography

William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered 

New Performance by Ukwanda Puppetry Collective

Decolonization, Development and the Making of Kenya

Exile and Migration: Performing Connections through the Metaphor of the Train

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe

International Workshop on Visual History & Theory

A Lecture by Rahul Mehrotra

African Critical Inquiry Programme

Professor Baidik Bhattacharya

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.

Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.

Mnemonic Solidarities, Global Humanities Institute: The Challenges of Translation

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.

The CHR's artists in residence, the uKwanda puppetry group, is in rehearsal, working with director Thando […]

The CHR congratulates doctoral fellow Rui Assubuji on winning the Ster Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best Short Film at the 20th Encounters Film Festival.

July 2018 is the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth. And the Rivonia Trial is one of the most extraordinary in legal history.

2019 African Critical Inquiry Workshop

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

Professor Jane Taylor, Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance, was in conversation with Northwestern University theatre historian Professor Dassia Posner on puppetry and object theatre.

The CHR is pleased to announce that three documentaries produced as part of the Documentary Film course will show at this years 20th Annual Encounters South African International Film Festival.

Lionel Davis in conversation with Tina Smith and Ayesha Price

Dispatch: Eduction, Sound, and the Senses

“What is the point?” Potentials of Decolonising History: in teacher education spaces, and school classrooms

Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies

23 May 2018 at 1pm

A collaborative project featuring CHR Artist in Residence Reza Khota

Join the NRF-DST Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, University of the Western Cape and Wits University Press for the launch of historian, Jon Soske’s

The Wiredu-Ezu Debate and Philosophy and “Real” Politics

The most recent very significant threshold to note is that the Greatmore building in Woodstock, which will house the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects, has finally…

Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom

This past month the CHR’s MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand.

Plenary Speaker Professor Premesh Lalu

Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective was developed through the mentorship of Handspring Puppet Company.

The pre-circulated paper for this seminar is accompanied by a short documentary by Jacob Cloete.

The Migrating Violence Research Platform of the Centre for Humanities Research presents a workshop on Migrants, Markets and the Modalities of Rule.

Please join us for a presentation by Biddy Partridge.

The Moppie Songs of the Colored Populations of Cape Town: Music and the Process of Creolization (South Africa)

A workshop hosted by: African Critical Inquiry Program (ACIP), NRF Forensic History Project and Centre for Humanities Research, UWC.

in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto

Tem Hawker, Yakhal Inkomo and the sentimental ‘avant-garde: Revisiting Cape jazz’s sonic archive’

A public lecture by Professor Richard Benson

Seminar: Gender, Nation and War Art: Rethinking Artistic Responses to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan

2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker

Abolde Safui

The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi

Dialogue on Troubling Seasons of Hate

3 – 16 March 2018

Dissident Citizens: Genealogies of Sovereignty, Violence, and Belonging along the Kenya-Somali Frontier

The Centre for Humanities Research is pleased to announce the award of two new research grants, beginning in 2018, from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation.

Engaging the Rounds of Charlotte Maxeke’s Becoming

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

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 .

The CHR congratulates Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff on being shortlisted for the Women in Architecture Awards.

by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and […]

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.

Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics

A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to […]

The CHR will be hosting a public screening of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro.

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

The CHR is delighted to announce that Honours fellow, Zuko Sikhafungana’s latest achievement in the arts.

Travelling Spirits and the Civilisation de l’universel: Apotropaic Writing and the Myth of Disenchantment

International Workshop on Visual History and Theory, Cape Town, 22-23 September 2017

The virtual gallery of the Athlone in Mind exhibition is now live. The exhibition, book […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

The CHR would like to congratulate doctoral fellow Mwayi Lusaka on the publication of his article.

A perspective from the pathology called Europe

The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) will explore the multiple ways in which improvisation has …

The CHR is happy to announce artist Jane Alexander as festival artist for the CHCI […]

An exhibition bringing into memory the performances of an Eastern Cape Choir touring the UK […]

Athlone in Mind

The (visual) subject  International Workshop on Visual History and Theory Cape Town 22 - 23 […]

In preparation for their upcoming show at this year’s CHCI meeting at the Castle of […]

Athlone in Mind

African Critical Inquiry Programme

Organizers of Missing and Missed, the 2018 ACIP Workshop: Nicky Rousseau and Ciraj Rassool

Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

Athlone in Mind

An exhibition of commissioned contemporary art, book and digital platform

Animation by Reza Khota and Kristy Stone

In June 2017, Premesh Lalu delivered a lecture on the Humanities and the Critique of Global Apartheid in Shanghai

The National Arts Festival presents the Reza Khota Quartet as part of the Standard Bank Jazz Festival.

The CHR congratulates Honours Fellow Zuko Sikhafungana on winning first place in UWC’s HIV & AIDS Unit’s film competition.

a new publication by Senior Researcher Dr. Heidi Grunebaum

On Friday 23 June, Kelley gives a presentation titled Jazz and the Politics of Co-creation. Hosted by […]

The Practice of Post-apartheid Freedom

The CHR and the Department of History, UWC invites you to a joint launch of […]

The Inner Space Tour Inner Space is a play on the inner world of music […]

Vasileios Syros is a Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland at the Finnish Centre of Political Thought & Conceptual Change.

Reinhart Kössler, a German scholar who studies the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the genocide

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

The Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Handspring Puppet Company, Ukwanda, Net […]

Lived Racism in Segregation-era South Africa: a research agenda and a case study

Conversations is a new series of public dialogues with jazz musicians and their legacies convened by […]

The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of […]

Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of History, University of the Western Cape South […]

The formation and practice of Social and Political Theory in the Indian conceptual imagination have, by and large, been a low profile enterprise.

Dan Magaziner (Department of History, Yale University, USA)

From 18 - 20 April 2017, the CHR in collaboration with the Jackman Humanities Institute […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

The CHR's platform on Aesthetics and Politics invites you to a film screening as part […]

Citizenship and Justice: Rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy.

The Vance Mission and the (Dis-)appearance of the ‘Amnesty Question’ on/from the Agenda of the Transitional Negotiations and in internal ANC

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Please join us for the launch of ‘Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics’, a new book by Professor Michael Neocosmos

The Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape invites to you a tribute to artists Ncedile Daki and Mlu

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Please join us for the opening of ‘Voortrekker Gateways’, an exhibition of work by Visual […]

The CHR is excited to announce that I See You, a play by Mongi Mthombeni, […]

We invite established scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences to join a team of scholars and artists who, in conversation and coll

The Migrating Violence research platform of the CHR presents a day workshop titled: Violent Pasts, […]

It is with the greatest sorrow that we announce the death of our dear colleague […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Seminar in Contemporary History & Humanities Special Seminar Hostile visual encounters: fighting to control photographic […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Mongi Mthombeni’s play I See You has been nominated in a number of categories in […]

South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty February – May 2017 Centre for Humanities Research Professor Cesare […]

In December 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded a three-and-a-half year, $1,525,000 grant to […]

The field of museums, heritage, and memory work has seen significant developments in Canada and […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by post-doctoral fellow Bongani Ndhlovu.

The Factory of the Arts presents a workshop and conversation on, “In Equity: Experiences in the Arts”.

Call for proposals to organize a workshop

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2017 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.

The SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory is part of the South African Research […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication under the Migrating Violence research platform […]

As part of a three-year collaborative venture with the CHR and the Jackman Humanities Institute […]

A Film by Stanley John The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance, called Olifantland, a […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Researcher at the Centre […]

Dear colleagues and friends, Attached, please find the announcement for the Documentary Filmmaking Practices in […]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,   On behalf of the staff and fellows of the Centre […]

Professor Premesh Lalu, director of the DST-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, as […]

Venue: at the Factory of the Arts Time: 7pm Date: Tuesday 29 November. The Factory […]

The 2016 Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance brings you Olifantland, a multilingual visual theatre show […]

CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu delivered an address at the media launch of Science Forum […]

Between February and May 2016 postgraduate students in Visual History from UWC took their cameras […]

Earlier this year we had an important Local Government Election. Now, as we debate how […]

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS IVAN KARP DOCTORAL RESEARCH AWARDS FOR AFRICAN STUDENTS ENROLLED IN SOUTH AFRICAN […]

Closing Date: Monday 1 May 2017 The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars […]

The closing date for applications and referee letters has been extended till 15 November 2016 […]

We said goodbye to Emile two months ago. This is a short clip of the […]

We are immensely delighted and honoured to report that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in […]

The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities […]

The TRC workshop is the inaugural activity of the CHR's collaborative partnership with the Jackman […]

A discussion was held with the film director, Mira Nair, about her work and new […]

Education in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Addis Ababa University Dullah Omar Centre for […]

The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to a book launch and discussion between Jo […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History University of the Western Cape South African […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

A very special audio- visual collaboration comes together on 28 September with The Reza Khota […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]

Centre for Humanities Research University of the Western Cape 10–13 August 2017 The 2017 annual […]

The DST NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities as part of a lecture […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Arts Education Workshops in Puppetry, Performance and Visual Arts Arts Education workshops were conducted with […]

Siba Grovogui (Cornell University) presented a lecture titled ‘Against the Metaphysics of Racial Difference’ at On The Subject of Citizenship.

Duke University Press, Clarke’s Bookshop and the Centre for Humanities Research, UWC invite you to […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

People You May Know was a collaborative performance and exhibition featuring Dathini Mzayiya, Brydon Bolton, […]

Reconnoitring alternative forms of resistance to apartheid South Africa, c1966-1979

Architecture, Self-Reliance and Trusteeship at the University of Pretoria, 1943 to present times

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

2015 Barrydale Festival with Net Vir Pret and Handspring Puppet Company

A colloquium marking 20 years since the publication of Mahmood Mamda-ni’s Citizen and Subject

DST NRF Flagship Next Generation Researcher Dr. Maurits Van Bever Donker will be co-teaching a […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

The CHR DST/NRF Flagship in Critical Thought in African Humanities and the Women’s and Gender […]

The Centre for Humanities Research and the Womens’ and Gender Studies Department at the University […]

The Centre for Humanities Research and the Library invite you to the launch of an […]

Professor Timothy Campbell (Cornell University, New York) delivered a lecture on the 16th of October 2014.

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

Virgil Slade (Department of History

We are excited to invite you to a presentation by visiting artist, Sandy Spieler from In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre, Minneapolis,

On 22 June, 2016 the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) […]

The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2017 ACIP workshop […]

You are invited by Wits University Press, UWC's Centre for Humanities Research and The Book […]

This is part of a lecture series on the Idea of the University in Africa.

The Reza Khota Quartet launched their debut album: "Transmutation" in 2014. Gwen Ansell writes in […]

The University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) hosted […]

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

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Other Universals presents a public lecture by Dr. Aaron Kamugisha (Cultural Studies, University of the […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Acclaimed play by Mongiwekhaya will run at the Fugard from 5 – 28 May 2016

The Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities invites you to a panel discussion on […]

The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]

The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2016 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research […]

Deadline changes for all African Critical Inquiry Programme applications.

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary […]

The CHR DST NRF Flagship for Critical Thought in African Humanities and the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you

Senior Researcher in the Flagship for Critical Thought in African Humanities Heidi Grunebaum will deliver […]

“From Rhodes(ia) to Zimbabwe: Rhodes Must Fall, Post-colonial Politics, and University Transformation” Speaker: Brian Raftopoulos […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History ( UWC) South African Contemporary History and […]

Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure […]

Artist in Residence Reza Khota launches his 2016 South African tour on the 26th and […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History (UWC) Speakers:   Dianna Shandy (Center for Integrative […]

Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History ( UWC) South African Contemporary History and […]

  Namibian exhibition on photography and forced removal now opens at the District Six Museum […]

Mongi Mthombeni, an artist in residence at the Centre for Humanities Research, premieres his play, […]

The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities, a satellite project of the […]

By Premesh Lalu " In the wake #FeesMustFall protests that electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been […]

Closing Date: Monday 2 May 2016 Download the form here The African Critical Inquiry Programme […]

Closing Date: Monday 2 May 2016 Download the Form here The African Critical Inquiry Programme […]

The Factory of the Arts, a satellite of the CHR at UWC will be participating […]

To celebrate South African Reconciliation Day, Net Vir Pret, the Handspring Trust and the Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) present […]

Please download the documents below. ACIP_CFP_ResearchGrants2016_FillableForm ACIP_CFP_Workshops2016_FillableForm

​The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities of the CHR (UWC) is […]

The Insurrections Ensemble returns to the Homecoming Centre at District Six for two performances on […]

The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) is delighted to announce the donation of the ‘jon […]

Congratulations to Professor Patricia Hayes on being awarded an NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History […]