Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Willemien Froneman (Africa Open Institute, Stellenbosch University) Nico Carstens, Disavowal,…
A new paper by Next Generation Scholars Lauren van der Rede and Aidan Erasmus has appeared in a global-e journal Special Issue Series on Mnemonic Solidarity in the Global Memory…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Wilton Schereka (Centre for Humanities Research, UWC) Speculate – troubling…
Convening an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse group of humanistic scholars and public intellectuals, primarily from Africa, the Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum workshop offered a venue for discussing the ideas,…
The CHR congratulates Heidi Grunebaum, Kurt Campbell, Reza Khota, and Kitso Lelliot on winning a number of important awards at this year’s National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences…
Professor Premesh Lalu attended and presented a paper titled ‘Race and Its Uncanny Returns: Building a Humanities Centre in a University of Aparthied’ at the Africa Institute’s international conference. The…
The CHR is excited to announce Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation, a special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories. This journal issue is the product of an ongoing partnership…
Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting by: Premesh Lalu Giving Contours to Shadows. Storm Janse van Rensburg, & Bonaventure Ndikung (Eds)….
The CHR is pleased to announce that Professor Sara Guyer, President of the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes, will be joining the CHR as an Affiliate Researcher in 2019….
On 15 November, the Centre for Humanities Research hosted a year-end colloquium at the new Greatmore building in Woodstock to celebrate the achievements of its fellows in 2018. The reception…
The CHR is pleased to announce that five current and former fellows are to graduate on 14 December 2018 at the University of the Western Cape. Among these, three are…
The Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance, Professor Jane Taylor, was invited to present the performance/lecture “Pan Troglodyte” at the Universite Paris 8 in November. The…