February 2, 2026
You are invited to attend an APES+ talk titled “Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over”, by Premesh Lalu.
October 2, 2024
On Tuesday 24 September 2024, the CHR took part in the Boschendal Heritage Day festivities, which involved puppet making workshops with school learners, and a giant puppet parade through Boschendal farm.
September 5, 2024
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.
August 14, 2024
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab was launched on 30 July 2024 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape and the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande.
June 17, 2024
The inaugural Encounters Iliso Lethu African Documentary Symposium, will take place over two days from 20 — 21 June 2024 at the CHR, in partnership with the Centre for Film and Media Studies, the University of Cape Town and the CHR, University of the Western Cape.
March 15, 2024
The CHR was visited by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela, in March 2024.
February 8, 2022
The Documentary Film Project at the CHR is key to rethinking the humanities PhD, incorporating audio-visual content into a reimagining of an aesthetic education.
July 1, 2021
With 2021 being declared “The Year of Charlotte Maxeke,” the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical thought in the African Humanities at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, has embarked on a special production based on the life of Maxeke.
June 11, 2021
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.
February 15, 2021
Inviting Artists and Scholars to Reimagine the Future of the Humanities Beyond the Divided City.
December 13, 2018
15 November 2018
November 13, 2018
The life and legacy of the late Prof Jakes Gerwel, former UWC Rector and Vice-Chancellor, was recently celebrated with, among other things, a keynote address by anti-apartheid activist, Jay Naidoo.