During August, the CHR will host two visiting scholars: Steve Akoth (Kenyatta University) and Tom Asher (Columbia University). Akoth and Asher will run a seminar titled Built Form, Design, and…
What is the University for? by: Premesh Lalu A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory. The paper, titled ‘What…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Okechukwu Nwafor (Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research) Funeral…
Phokeng Setai is an A.W. Mellon doctoral candidate in Anthropology/Sociology department who is working on his doctoral thesis with the working title Contemporary artistic formations: On the role of curatorial…
This report was written by Professor Jane Taylor. Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations,…
As part of an ongoing research collaboration, colleagues from the CHR will be joining other partner institutions for the 2019 CHCI Global Humanities Institute on the ‘Challenges of Translation’. This…
Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” in a piece published in the Daily Maverick. The passing of David Koloane was a sad…
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. The Ukwanda team are…
Heidi Grunebaum’s manuscript, has been selected by JK Anowe to be one of seven manuscripts for publication in the 2019/2020 poetry Chapbook Series. Grunebaum’s entry is titled “Book of The…
CHR Artist in Residence and Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2019 Mandla Mlangeni will provide a musical journey as part of Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth: Musical Reflections on…
The Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Invites you to WARONA Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company. CAPE TOWN Date: 17 June @ 15:00 18 June…
A public Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research Presenter: Dr. Kim Gurney, Next Generation Researcher position in the Centre for Humanities Research, University…