April 11, 2018
Against the Colonial Partition of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Mahmoud Darwish, Elias Khoury, and the Path Towards a Decolonial Alternative
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network.
UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel is undertaking a mission to South Africa from 29 January until 9 February.
WRITING A DECENTERED AND ENTANGLED HISTORY OF CINEMA-GOING: Epistemological and methodological issues
The CHR’s Fernanda Pinto de Almeida presented a paper at the Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going conference in November.
Ghent Africa Platform Lecture in Honour of Nelson Mandela 2023: The future of post-apartheid education
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Ghent Africa Platform Lecture by Premesh Lalu in Honour of Nelson Mandela, which will take place at the Greatmore Humanities Hub on 13 November 2023.
Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair: Professor Ruth Barton
The CHR welcomes Ruth Barton as a visiting professor on the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture and documentary film screening about the legacy of the Irish Troubles on film. This lecture will be followed by an afternoon discussion on Irish cinema and ecocriticism.
Submerged BlackFem Voices in Electronic Dance Music
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network
Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: The Border in Ireland as unconcluded space, by Prof Eoin McNamee
The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
The Inaugural lecture of the Charlotte Maxeke – Mary Robinson Research Chair by Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defense, Micheál Martin.
This lecture will inaugurate the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and open an exhibition on 25 years of the Good Friday Agreements between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.
African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, as part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
Scattering Histories: Queerness, Migrancy, and the Question of the Archive
The Allen Isaacman Collection Annual African History Lecture
A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?
A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
CHR Winter School, 2022: On the question of the minor A reading by Emma Minkley and Kiasha Naidoo
The CHR hosted its annual Winter School from 17 to 20 October 2022 at the District Six Homecoming Centre in Cape Town.
Mandela and Tragedy, Tutu and the Political Transfiguration of South Africa: New Approaches to Biography
A Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research
Change Everything: Racial Capitalism, Abolition, and the Necessity for Militant Scholarship
The Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, the Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Anthropology are pleased to invite you to The Annual Distinguished Dean’s Lecture by Professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Ireland, England, and the paradox of ‘minor literature’
The CHR will be hosting a public lecture by Professor Eve Patten on Wednesday, 26 October at the District Six Homecoming Centre.
No Partial Public Sympathies: A Categorial Imperative Unlike Any Other
The CHR will be hosting a public lecture by Professor Grovogui on Monday, 24 October at the District Six Homecoming Centre.
Reconsidering Reparations
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Dr Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò on 28 October 2022.
Decolonisation, Africa, and International Law: Two Frames of Epistemic Violence
The Other Universals consortium will be hosting a webinar with Dr Mohsen al Attar is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick and a Visiting Lecturer at UCL and Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Dutch Affinities
The CHR is excited to announce Professor of International Relations Theory and African Political Thought, Siba Grovogui, gave a lecture at the Centre for Humanities Research.
Keynote Address: Unpayable Debt
Professor Denise Ferreira da Silva (The University of British Columbia) will be delivering a keynote address “Unpayable Debt” as part of the Other Universals Consortium’s 2022 public engagements on Theorizing Aesthetics and Politics from Postcolonial Locations. Date: Friday, May 20th. Time: 7 pm SAST
Keynote Address: A Prolegomenon towards ukuNqakula as an Aesthetic and Political Location
Professor Thembinkosi Goniwe will be delivering a keynote address “A prolegomenon towards ukuNqakula as an Aesthetic and Political Location” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into Aesthetics and Politics on Tuesday, 23 November.
Public Lecture: Brian Friel’s Making History and Colonial Ireland
The CHR in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA invites you to a public lecture by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
Keynote Address: The Conjuncture of 1956
Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
Stealing Time
Join Prof. Patricia Hayes for “Photographs and the Long Inception of Colonialism in Southern Angola,” a lecture hosted by the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures (IHGC) at the University of Virginia.
Of Moving and Being Moved: The Subject and the Object in Puppetry and AI
Who am I in relation to what is going on? How can I mobilize questions that matter to me?
The Museum Today with Jane Taylor
Professor Jane Taylor will be giving a zoom talk on the new exhibition of the South African sculptor, Jackson Hlungwani, on ,Thursday 20th August at 6 pm.
A Public Conversation with Mamela Nyamza
Mamela Nyamza is an award-winning artist, choreographer, dancer and performer.
The South African Students’ Organisation and the Black Consciousness Legacy
Dr. Saleem Badat
Video: Soft Thresholds
The CHR in partnership with African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and UCT School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatic and Wolff Architects hosted a lecture titled Soft Thresholds by practicing architect and educator Rahul Mehrotra.
Lion’s Share: Remaking South African Copyright
A Humanities in Session Lecture by Prof. Veit Erlmann
Sex and the Profane: FAKA, Abject Erotics, and the Politics of Deviance in post-apartheid South Africa
A Humanities in Session Lecture by Assistant Professor Jordache A. Ellapen
The Photography of History: Sally Mann at Antietam
Keynote Lecture at International Workshop
Using Film to Reconnect South Africa to Early Liberation Heroes
A Lecture and Film Screening by Professor Chérif Keita
Public Lecture: Elizabeth Giorgis
Professor Giorgis teaches Art Theory and Criticism in the Graduate School of the College of Performing and Visual Art at the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Public Lecture: South Africa’s Hosting of the 2018 BRICS Summit
Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies
Collaborative Voices Part 1. Two musicians in Johannesburg in the 1980s:
Please join us for a presentation by Biddy Partridge.
Sexual Violence: Remembering, Representing, Resisting
Dialogue on Troubling Seasons of Hate
Jazz and the Politics of Co-Creation
On Friday 23 June, Kelley gives a presentation titled Jazz and the Politics of Co-creation. Hosted by the University of the Western Cape’s Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) […]
Public Lecture: Comparative Political Theory and Global Challenges
Vasileios Syros is a Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland at the Finnish Centre of Political Thought & Conceptual Change.
Public Lecture: Professor Gopal Guru
The formation and practice of Social and Political Theory in the Indian conceptual imagination have, by and large, been a low profile enterprise.
In Service of What? The University’s Contemporary Conundrums: Public Lecture by Catarina Antunes Gomes
This is part of a lecture series on the Idea of the University in Africa.
Lecture Series on the University in Africa: Brian Raftopoulos
“From Rhodes(ia) to Zimbabwe: Rhodes Must Fall, Post-colonial Politics, and University Transformation” Speaker: Brian Raftopoulos (CHR, Senior Researcher) Date: 16 March Venue: Library Auditorium, UWC […]
“The Crisis in Syria”: A Question of Futures’ by Na’eem Jeenah
The Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities, a satellite project of the Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities based in Athlone, […]
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Exhibitions produced and/or facilitated by the CHR at UWC are generated under its Aesthetics and Politics research platform, aimed at renewing a humanities inquiry through encounters with the visual and performing arts, and at critically investigating the intersection of the arts, politics, and publics in post-apartheid South Africa.
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