The CHR congratulates postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects Aja Marneweck on the publication of ‘The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South…
Professor David Scott was recently interviewed in part on some of the work done in his 2017 book Stuart Hall’s Voice, which was based on lectures given at the CHR…
Professor Suren Pillay, Senior Researcher at the CHR, participated in a podcast discussion titled ‘Why are immigrants under attack in South Africa?’ hosted on The Inquiry on the BBC’s World…
The Centre for Humanities Research warmly congratulates Professor Huey Copeland on the award of the Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene the international project, “The…
The CHR congratulate Nsima Udo, currently a CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, for winning the prestigous Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Sam Longford (Department of History, UWC) Governing the ungovernable: contested…
On 7 September 2019, prolific photographer and friend of the CHR Paul Grendon passed away. His presence in person and in his work has left an indelible mark on the…
The Crime Scene is on at Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Methodist Church Hall, cnr Milton and Wesley Street, Observatory, 7 – 8 November 2019, at 19h00. Tickets are R70 per…
Professor Jane Taylor (Andrew Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the CHR) is participating in the launch of the Mellon funded Arts Laboratory at the University of…
Professor Premesh Lalu will step down from his position as director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), a position held for a period of twelve years at the University…
Congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate. Layne was an Andrew Mellon and NRF Flagship Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, here at the University of…
The CHR is delighted to announce that Dr Thozama April, Next Generation Researcher at CHR, UWC will be awarded The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award by the Charlotte Maxeke Institute in…