May 15, 2019

Warona

Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company
Jun 1, 2018

Louis Moholo in conversation

CHR will be hosting a public conversation with jazz drumming great Louis Moholo at the Guga S’thebe Community Centre in Langa at 6.30 pm on June 8th 2018
Feb 15, 2018

Examining Malcolm X

A public lecture by Professor Richard Benson
Sep 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 […]
Sep 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 […]
Sep 1, 2015

About South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar

Established in 1993, the weekly South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar is the longest running seminar series in Southern Africa, and continues to draw […]
Aug 17, 2015

Love & Revolution

A workshop series & publication project A series of four international workshops on ‘love’ and ‘revolution’ took place in Cape Town (October 2010), Minneapolis (March-April […]
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 […]
May 27, 2015

Kagg’agn Dreams

May 27, 2015

The Sea Comes to the Karoo

When the Sea Comes to the Karoo 2014 Produced by Handspring Trust for Puppetry Arts & the CHR, UWC and Net Vir Pret. A film by Jonathan […]
May 26, 2015

Third Animal Studies Round Table in Africa Colloquium

CHR, UWC, 3 & 4 September 2013 Profs Wendy Woodward (English) and Shirley Brooks (Geography) hosted the third Animal Studies Round Table in Africa Colloquium […]

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