Green Screen, a newly launched work of creative nonfiction, follows the life of a film set created for a commercial by a team of artisans in Salt River, Cape Town, and how it morphs into a surprising series of second lives. The reader navigates this digital storymap online through a series of geolocations, visuals and text, authored by Kim Gurney and published by CHR.
Exodus, Movement, a/the People: Critical Thinking and the Collective
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of honours fellow, Kiasha Naidoo’s latest journal article “ Neoliberalism’s last breath: thinking politico-economic well-being during and beyond COVID-19” in Revista de Filosofie Aplicată.
A Winter School webinar with Professor Rinaldo Walcott
As part of the Communicating the Humanities project at the Centre for Humanities Research, Next Generation Scholar, Valmont Layne, will be in conversation with Steve Akoth, Christine van Zyl and The Letter’s co-directors Maia Lekow and Christopher King.
The CHR’s Aja Marneweck, together with Nataniël Pokwas and Selanvor Platjies from Net vir Pret, the CHR’s partners in the annual Barrydale puppetry production will be performing on the Brighton Fringe festival as part of the Imaginary Futures International arts project.
A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Nancy Luxon
A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Heidi Grunebaum
A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar series from July – November 2020
A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Aditya Nigam
As South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa to represent the plight of a refugee child.