Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Swati Arora (Centre for Humanities Research Fellow, UWC) Left to…
William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered By Jane Taylor Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance Centre for Humanities Research University of the Western Cape ‘Prepared…
On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives International Workshop on Visual History & Theory Cape Town 27-28 September 2018 This is not simply another colloquium about African photography…
The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Mary Mbewe as recipient of the 2018 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Mbewe is a Zambian student pursuing her PhD in the Department…
Kim Gurney Senior Researcher, UK-RSA Bilateral Research Chair: Digital humanities chair in culture and technics Kim’s expertise spans contemporary art, cultural geography and journalism, specialising in issues around public space…
Douglas Mulliken Current Fellows: Postdoctoral Douglas Mulliken is an Andrew W. Mellon CHR Flagship Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape. His research examines representations of violence in…
The CHR congratulates doctoral fellow Rui Assubuji on winning the Ster Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best Short Film at the 20th Encounters Film Festival. His film, The Art…
The CHR is pleased to announce that three documentaries produced as part of the Documentary Film course will show at this years 20th Annual Encounters South African International Film Festival….
Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies…
THE LAUNCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Join the NRF-DST Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, University of the Western Cape and Wits University Press for the launch of historian, Jon…
The most recent very significant threshold to note is that the Greatmore building in Woodstock, which will house the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects, has finally been secured and we are…
During April 2018, CHR’s MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana, was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand. Participating…