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READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Reza Khota

This session will be led by Reza Khota who is a guitarist/composer who has performed, recorded and toured professionally in South Africa and Internationally for over 25 years.’
READ MORE Exhibition Launch: Rhythmic Solidarity: the photographs of Derek Speirs

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape is proud to present an exhibition of Derek Speirs' photographs of the Irish anti-apartheid movement to mark the conferral of honorary doctorates on Charlotte Maxeke and Mary Robinson. The exhibition will be opened by former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson.
READ MORE Humanities in Sesssion, Artists' Forum with Tshegofatso Moeng

This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director.
September 9, 2025

Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
June 18, 2025

Encounters Documentary Film Festival highlights: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars

The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
September 1, 2015

Seminars 2014

400      25 February: Suren Pilllay (CHR, UWC), Migrating violence: Community, citizenship and belonging in post-apartheid South Africa 401      11 March: Desiree Lewis (Women’s and Gender […]
September 1, 2015

Seminars 2013

374      12 February: Geraldine Frieslaar (CHR, UWC) & Olusegun Morakinyo (Robben Island Museum), The UWC-Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archives and the African Programme in Museum […]
May 27, 2015

Archives of the Non-Racial

Archives of the Non-Racial A series of public lectures, panel discussions, book launches and performances Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism [Wits Institute for Social […]
May 27, 2015

The Black Christ

The Black Christ 2015 Written and produced by Damian Samuels Written and produced by Damian Samuels, a Masters fellow at the CHR at UWC, ‘The […]