March 11, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Maurits van Bever Donker has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
May 27, 2024
From May 28-June 1, 2024, the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host the CHCI’s Annual Meeting. On 30 May, the CHR’s Professor Maurits van Bever Donker will chair a discussion on ‘Humanities at Risk’.
May 9, 2022
The CHR is co-sponsoring a two-part series of conversations on the critical work of humanities centers and humanities administration: “Forming the Humanities: On Care” and “Traversing the Humanities: On Space.” These sessions are open to anyone engaged with the work of directing and administering humanities centers and other spaces.
December 8, 2020
Dr Valmont Layne, Next-Generation Scholar at the Centre for Humanities Research NRF Flagship, recently participated in a podcast for National Public Radio in the USA.
July 10, 2019
Theoretical Issues, Practical Densities: Violence, Memory, and the Untranslatable
April 15, 2019
The Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop held in December of 2018 enabled a rich set of connections and convergences around questions of the curriculum.
March 5, 2019
In January, CHCI held its first Africa Humanities Workshop in Addis Ababa, hosted by Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Criticism and Theory in the College of Performing and Visual Art and the Center for African Studies at Addis Ababa University.
February 15, 2019
The Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI) Africa Workshop 2019 was hosted in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with scholars from the CHR attending.
May 3, 2018
Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
August 2, 2017
Athlone in Mind
August 1, 2017
July 28, 2017
Athlone in Mind