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READ MORE Blackness is Blooming Symposium report

Blackness is Blooming was a symposium held at Zeitz Mocaa that delved into the complex experiences of exile and the aftermath of displacement as explored in the exhibition A Protea Is Not a Flower. READ MORE Film Screening: Aquila, J.M. Coetzee and The Jesus Trilogy

The CHR welcomed J.M. Coetzee on his visit to the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab and was proud to host the screening of Aquila, a film by Callum Chiplin and Jade Harris-Tyler, based on Coetzee’s The Jesus Trilogy. READ MORE Open Call: The Cape Town Workshop

We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully funded 12-day research and practice-led programme of workshops, discussions, and encounters with historical archives and contemporary practice in July 2027.
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.
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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.
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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