The end of each year, for Handspring Puppet Company and the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR, DST-NRF Flagship), has in the past eight years culminated in a puppetry performance and…
A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff The CHR congratulates Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff on the publication of Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of an African Factory by…
Funders The CHR is supported by generous grants from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF), and the Makwande…
The workshops aim to promote and sustain a conversation amongst the growing community of trans-generational scholars engaged in new research in visual studies across different disciplines and media, and especially…
by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in…
by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon (2017) With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology…
Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray Chapters include contributions from: Julia Martin, Premesh Lalu, Noëleen Murray, Ciraj Rassool, Neil Myburgh, Emile Maurice, Keith Gottschalk, Arthur Nortje, Deela Kahn, Wendy…
Premesh Lalu Research Professor, UK-RSA Bilateral Research Chair: Digital humanities chair in culture and technics Professor Premesh Lalu is the former Director of the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in…
Partnerships The humanities, as a discourse that places the university in direct relation to society, assumes a transnational orientation, not least because of the ways in which its emergence brushes…
The CHR is pleased to invite you to the opening of ‘New Jerusalem’, an exhibition of photographic work by the Visual History class of 2017. Date: 26 September 2017 Time:…
The CHR will be hosting a public screening of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unpublished Remember This House. Date: 27 September 2017 Time: 1PM…
Click to view The CHR is delighted to announce that Honours fellow, Zuko Sikhafungana’s latest achievement in the arts. Zuko plays two different characters in the film “INDODA” which has…