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 2022. The African Critical…
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…
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…
Written by Jane Taylor 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…
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…
Listen to the podcast: A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director of Sharmin and Bijan…
As part of the Communicating the Humanities research project, The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with award winning journalists and filmmakers, Richard Poplak and Dianna Neile, and producer…
The CHR’s Aja Marneweck, together with Nataniël Pokwas and Selanvor Platjies from Net vir Pret, the CHR’s partners in the annual Barrydale puppetry production will be performing on the Brighton…
Listen to the talk: Centre for Humanities Research & the SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory at the University of the Western Cape; SARChI Chair in Social Change, University…
The Walk: UWC & Boschendal Wish Little Amal Safe Travels As South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps…
A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Aditya Nigam Aditya Nigam is a political theorist based at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. His…
Applications closed 21 October 2020. The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is pleased to announce the 2021 Fellowship competition for Post-doctoral, PhD,…