The CHR is excited to announce the publication of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories.

The CHR congratulates Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott on his recent publication “Inxeba (The Wound), Queerness and Xhosa Culture.”

The CHR congratulates Iona Gilburt, DST/NRF SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual History & Theory, on her article “Rewriting Dusklands: The Narrative of Marilyn Dawn,” published online in May 2020.

The CHR congratulates DST/NRF SARChI Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual History & Theory Iona Gilburt on the publication of “Bringing the Vietnam War Home: A Study of Photographic Media in J. M. Coetzee’s Dusklands.”

The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Ruins from CHR Director, Professor Heidi Grunebaum, in Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts published by punctum books.

The CHR congratulates director, Professor Heidi Grunebaum, on the publication of her latest chapter titled: ‘Zanzibar, circa 1996’ in The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century. The collection is co-edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.

The CHR is delighted to announce the latest publication from CHR Next Gen researcher, Ross Truscott, titled ‘ Dreaming from the perspective of everyone published in Subjectivity.

The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Acting Director and Associate Professor, Heidi Grunebaum, poetry collection ‘The Book of the Missing’.

The CHR congratulates Patricia Hayes, SARChI Chair in Visual History, and Gary Minkley, SARChI Chair in Social Change, on the publication of their latest co-edited book Ambivalent.

The CHR is delighted to announce a publication from CHR Senior researcher, Suren Pillay, titled ‘Why I am no longer a Non-Racialist: Identity, Citizenship, Difference’ published with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

The CHR congratulates, DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, Professor Patricia Hayes on the publication of her latest journal article titled ‘Zenzo Nkobi, ZAPU Photographer: Exile, Visibility and the Anteroom of War in Zambia, 1977–1980’ in the Journal of Southern African Studies.

The CHR is delighted to announce the latest publication from CHR Next Gen researcher, Ross Truscott, titled ‘The Dream of the Royal Road: Psychoanalysis and the Post’ published in Cultural Critique.

The CHR congratulates post-doctoral fellow, Dr Rike Sitas, on her latest publication: ‘Creative Cities, Graffiti and Culture‐Led Development in South Africa: Dlala Indima (‘Play Your Part’) in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

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.

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.

A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.

A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.

and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)

Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)

Professor Premesh Lalu

Tracing the Mbira Sound Archive in Zimbabwe

William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered 

Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.

2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker

The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi

Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics

A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff

by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]

by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and […]

Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray

The CHR would like to congratulate doctoral fellow Mwayi Lusaka on the publication of his article.

Intimations of an Ethics of Receptive Generosity

a new publication by Senior Researcher Dr. Heidi Grunebaum

The CHR and the Department of History, UWC invites you to a joint launch of […]

The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of […]

Jane Taylor

The CHR is excited to announce that I See You, a play by Mongi Mthombeni, […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by post-doctoral fellow Bongani Ndhlovu.

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.

Edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Wits

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication under the Migrating Violence research platform […]

The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Researcher at the Centre […]

CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu delivered an address at the media launch of Science Forum […]

The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to a book launch and discussion between Jo […]

The University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) hosted […]

Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure […]

By Premesh Lalu " In the wake #FeesMustFall protests that electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been […]