Heidi Grunebaum Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

April 20, 2026

Workshop announcement: ‘Transitional Justice in Illiberal Times’

The term “transitional justice” rose to prominence after 1995, when the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) published its three-volume series Transitional Justice (Kritz, ed). In the decades since, and corresponding to the end of the Cold War and defeat of the Soviet Union, the field appeared to flourish.

June 9, 2025

Global dis:connect Academic Advisory Board announcement

We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

February 27, 2025

Freedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the Making of Worlds

Hosted by The Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC)

September 23, 2024

Journal Launch: God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, Kronos, No.50, 2024.

The launch of the latest edition of Kronos, ‘God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’, takes place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Thursday 3 October 2024.

August 26, 2024

CHR delegation visit

In August 2024, a CHR delegation met with leadership and Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues at Sol Plaatje University to discuss future collaborations and joint research initiatives.

June 17, 2024

Sound Art Exhibition (27 April – 19 May): Oscillations – Cape Town to Berlin – Sonic Inquiries and Practices

Critical listening is the first step toward an ethics and aesthetics of care and freedom. Discarding listening habits and accepting new sound qualities afford access to other layers of history and experience.

June 5, 2024

‘The Return’ to premiere at Encounters Film Festival.

We are delighted to announce that The Return, a film by Mark Kaplan and Heidi Grunebaum, will premiere at Encounters Film Festival on 22 June in Cape Town (Labia) and on 30 June in Johannesburg (The Zone, Rosebank).

October 13, 2023

Winter School 2023: Heidi Grunebaum, ‘Opening Address’

The CHR hosted its annual Winter School in August at the Greatmore Humanities Hub in Woodstock, Cape Town.

January 23, 2023

Book Launch: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid

Join the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs for the book launch of Premesh Lalu's Undoing Aprtheid.

April 1, 2022

2022 Fellows Welcome

Following on from the first public lecture of 2022 by Jane Ohlmeyer, the CHR welcomed Fellows to the new academic year.

June 21, 2021

Book Chapters List

Contributions by Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research to edited volumes represent a diverse engagement with the centre’s academic inquiries. The following list shows publications from the latter years of the centre’s output.

June 11, 2021

Breaking Ground at Greatmore

With construction underway on Greatmore, a sod-turning ceremony was held to celebrate the coming to fruition of the proposal for an arts and humanities hub supported through the DSI-NRF Flagship and the NIHSS.