CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu will take part in the Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence workshop hosted by the Critical Theory in the Global South project of…
Convening an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse group of humanistic scholars and public intellectuals, primarily from Africa, the Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum workshop will offer a venue for discussing the…
The Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape and Jazz in the Native Yards invites to the Album Launch by Reza Khota…
Water has been at the forefront of public awareness in recent years. Water is life and the importance of active awareness around this precious resource has been made all the…
The CHR congratulates Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni on being a recipient of the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award. The award acknowledges notable South African artists, in a variety…
The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to The Subject Races: Populations, Classifications, Justice Date: 26 October 2018 Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: Room 2, Centre for Humanities Research, Old…
This short documentary film, A Future Museum Against Apartheid, showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection. Beginning in the early 1990s, a group of artists in France were…
This short documentary film, A Future Museum Against Apartheid, showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection. Beginning in the early 1990s, a group of artists in France were…
LoKO (the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects) is immersed in a busy cycle of making and thinking. We will be hosting the annual Jakes Gerwel Anniversary celebration at the CHR’s newly…
Phokeng Setai DSI-NRF Early Career Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai is an Early Career Doctoral Fellow with the DSI-NRF Flagship. He is registered in the Department of Anthropology at UWC. His…
Kim Gurney, a Next Generation Scholar in the CHR, has been invited to give an opening talk for a Nordic research conference on public art organised by the Public Art…
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED** The workshop is concerned with the ways histories are written and assembled, and the materials used to narrate or analyze the…