Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC. The CHR is delighted to announce that Sound Working Group Convenors, Aidan Erasmus, Valmont Layne and Lee Walters have received…
Centre for Humanities Research: Celebrating milestones With the recent launch of the next phase of the CHR’s DSTI-NRF Flagship in the Humanities at its new Greatmore facility, we would like…
Launch of the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab was launched on 30 July 2024 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape and the Minister of…
The CHR’s annual Winter School will be held at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab between 22 and 26 July 2024 at the Iyatsiba Lab in Cape Town (66 Greatmore St, Woodstock)….
2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures…
Abstracts are invited for participation in the annual workshop in Visual History & Theory to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, on 19-20…
Between the 12th and the 18th of March CHR faculty and colleagues from the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society met for a ten-day workshop on…
Sound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin. Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin, will open on Fri 26 April at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. We are delighted to announce…
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott. Mine…
Application deadline: 30 March 2024. Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western…
The CHR was visited by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela, in March 2024. During his tour of the Iyatsiba Lab we spoke about the…