June 27, 2025
Kim Gurney’s latest publication for The Conversation discusses five indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about.
June 23, 2025
The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor, Diana Vives, at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. The Sky Beneath was originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, and is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who in the 6th century BCE radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge
June 17, 2025
Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
May 20, 2025
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of a chapter by Kim Gurney in an edited volume about architecture and islands, Instituting Worlds. The book, edited by Catharina Gabrielsson and Marko Jobst, is published by Routledge.
May 7, 2025
The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
March 27, 2025
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
March 24, 2025
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.
February 5, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for Honours, Masters and Doctoral awards in 2025, convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.
January 27, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for postdoctoral awards in 2025 convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities. In this round, the CHR will make two fellowship awards.
January 13, 2025
The CHR is delighted to announce that Erich Hörl has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, University of Lüneburg.
January 13, 2025
The CHR is delighted to announce that Professor Premesh Lalu has been awarded the British Academy/NRF UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.
April 22, 2024
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 the question: What is the University for?