READ MOREExhibition Announcement: Home by Naoya Yoshikawa
The Iyatsiba Gallery Annexe at CHR is a participant venue for the city-wide Cape Town Photography Festival during September, hosting a solo exhibition by Naoya Yoshikawa.READ MOREHumanities in Session: Archive Lab, HOME: IE by Naoya Yoshikawa
The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will be hosting Naoya Yoshikawa in September at the Iyatsiba Lab, in collaboration with The Cape Town Photography Festival. Alongside this Humanities in Session: Archive Lab seminar, Yoshikawa’s exhibition, HOME: IE, will be showing at the Iyatsiba Lab’s Annex Gallery (3-26 September 2026).READ MOREA Tribute to Tiisetso Dladla (1985-2026): PhD fellow New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR, UWC
It seems unthinkable to be sharing a tribute for Tiisetso Dladla who passed away in Johannesburg on 11 August 2026. We are shocked and heartbroken at UWC where Tiisetso was a doctoral fellow of the New Archival Visions (NAV) at the Centre for Humanities Research, with her PhD registered in the Department of Historical Studies.
The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar is pleased to announce that Kim Gurney will be presenting “Flipside: The Inadvertent Archive” on 22 June 2021 at 14:00.
CHR Artists in Residence Buhle Ngaba and Tony Bonani Miyambo are set to perform a live reading of Neil Coppen’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet as part of KKNK 2021.
On 9 March 2021, the CHR’s Jane Taylor and Aja Marneweck will be participating in the puppetry workshop Animations and Activations with William Ellis (Dept. of Anthropology, UWC) and Marcus Neustetter as part of the Tri-Continental Partnership between the University of Missouri, the University of the Western Cape, and Ghent University.
The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar will be hosting a launch of Other Lives of the Image, a special issue of the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories, on 9 March 2021.
The Other Universals Consortium and CODESRIA invite you to a webinar with Professor Mahmood Mamdani about his new book Neither Settler Nor Native:The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.