February 5, 2026
The CHR’s Valmont Layne will be giving a keynote at ‘The Klopse/Minstrel tradition as intangible heritage’, a seminar organised by the Salt River Heritage Society.
September 10, 2025
The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
August 28, 2025
We are delighted to announce that New Archival Visions Fellows, Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay, have been awarded Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal Fellowships with the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC).
April 19, 2024
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) are pleased to announce an open call for a year-long museum fellowship programme, developed to educate a new generation of art and museum professionals in Africa.
March 20, 2024
Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) offers a range of research grants and fellowships in 2022-2025 to support new research activity in the UWC archives.