Handspring Puppet Company Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

African Studies Annual Lecture 2025: ‘The Becoming Technical of the Human: Race After Apartheid’, Premesh Lalu

The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.

'Slave Heritage & Cape Music', with Valmont Layne.

It’s National Archives Week.

CUT faculty hosts the inaugural Research Centre on Human Technology interaction workshop to reimagine knowledge in a technological age

The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).

May 8, 2023

Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities

The CHR warmly congratulates Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppetry Company on receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto.

June 14, 2022

Isikhalo Somlambo/Der Ruf des Wassers

The CHR is delighted to announce artists in residence, Ukwanda Puppets Collective's collaborative puppetry performance, will be performing at at the Augsburg Staatstheater in Germany this July.

May 26, 2022

Taking The Walk

The CHR is pleased to announce the honouring of the achievements of Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, who will receive honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto, the Jackman Humanities Institute, in June 2022.