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READ MORE Looking Together: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, 2026.

The CHR will be hosting its annual International Workshop in Visual History & Theory at Iyatsiba Lab on 16-17 October 2026, in partnership with Université-Paris-8, on the theme of 'Looking Together.' Migration, solidarity and mobility across time and space are key themes. READ MORE Humanities in Session: Facing the Heat in South Africa with Vishwas Satgar

This Humanities in Session will be led by Vishwas Satgar who will be in conversation with Lee Walters about his new book and exhibition, Facing the Heat in South Africa, on Thursday 15 October, 2026. READ MORE A City in Practice: The Lubumbashi Biennale (2008-2024)

Kim Gurney, Senior Researcher at the CHR, is a contributing author for the first comprehensive publication on the Lubumbashi Biennale, a newly released book that traces relations between the city, its growing art scene and collective practice.
February 19, 2025

UK-SA Bilateral chair in culture and technics

The British Academy/National Research Foundation UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture & Technics, held by Professor Premesh Lalu in the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
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January 11, 2024

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair emerges out of a longstanding collaboration between the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute (TLRH) at Trinity College Dublin that has focused on colonialism, partition, postcoloniality and race. Relationships and networks forged through these institutions’ fellowship programmes have laid the groundwork for the establishment of this research chair.
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