Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures Archives

Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep Time, Shallow Time

The 2024 Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place on 19-20 September at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab....

Vision, touch, and duration: reflections on photographic temporalities and curatorial practice.

This year’s Visual History and Theory Workshop Keynote will be delivered by Christopher Morton, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford....

Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.

The CHR is delighted to announce that Sound Working Group Convenors, Aidan Erasmus, Valmont Layne and Lee Walters have received a joint Creative Arts Output Award for their outstanding contributions to Research and Innovation at the University of the Western Cape....

July 17, 2024

Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.

The CHR welcomes Robert Trent Vinson who will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Tuesday 23 July and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July.

July 15, 2024

Winter School 2024: Partition / non-Partition

The CHR’s annual Winter School will be held at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab between 22 and 26 July 2024 at the Iyatsiba Lab in Cape Town (66 Greatmore St, Woodstock).