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Green Screen
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.
The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South Africa
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.
What is the University for?
A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
Democracy, Consensus and Citizenship
and the Book Launch of Consensus as Democracy in Africa by Prof Bernard Matolino (UKZN)
Kronos: Southern African Histories 44
Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation (Special Issue)
Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting
Professor Premesh Lalu
New Accents on the Social
Out of History, Unsettled History, and Remains of the Social Review by Crain Soudien.
Kronos 43: What is the university in Africa for?
2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker
Publication: Fred Bidandi
The CHR would like to congratulate Migrating Violence Postdoctoral Fellow Fred Bidandi
Hypocrisy: ‘Wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit are Distinctly Consider’d’
by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and […]
Publication: Suren Pillay
Thinking the State from Africa: Political Theory, Eurocentrism and Concrete Politics
The Deaths of Hintsa: Post-Apartheid South Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts
by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission […]
Unstitching Rex Trueform: The Story of An African Factory
A new publication by CHR Architectural Fellow Ilze Wolff
Becoming UWC: Reflections, pathways and unmaking apartheid’s legacy
Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray
Publication: Mwayi Lusaka
The CHR would like to congratulate doctoral fellow Mwayi Lusaka on the publication of his article.
Book Launch: Out of History and Unsettled History
The CHR and the Department of History, UWC invites you to a joint launch of […]
Remains of the Social
The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of […]
I See You Wins Best New South African Script
The CHR is excited to announce that I See You, a play by Mongi Mthombeni, […]
Publication: Bongani Ndhlovu
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by post-doctoral fellow Bongani Ndhlovu.
Publication: Recognition and Ethics in World Literature
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by former fellow Vincent Van Bever Donker.
Empathy’s Echo: post-apartheid fellow feeling
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication Next Generation Scholar Ross Truscott.
Out of History: Reimagining South African Pasts
Edited by Jung Ran Forte, Paolo Israel and Leslie Wits
Publication: Nationalism and Exile in an Age of Solidarity
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication under the Migrating Violence research platform […]
Publication: Suren Pillay and Carlos Fernandes in conversation with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
The CHR is pleased to announce a new publication by Senior Researcher at the Centre […]
Igniting Conversations about Science
CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu delivered an address at the media launch of Science Forum […]
The Borderlands: Jo Ractliffe and Patricia Hayes
The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to a book launch and discussion between Jo […]
What is The University and its Worlds? Response by CHR Fellow Nehna Singh
The University of the Western Cape together with the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) hosted […]
Launch of the new edition of Turner’s The Eye of the Needle
Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure […]
What is the university for?
By Premesh Lalu " In the wake #FeesMustFall protests that electrified South Africa one week ago, much has been […]
