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READ MORE Book Launch: A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa, by Mark Sanders.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
READ MORE ‘Queerness, Blackness and the Postcolony’ with Lwando Scott

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
READ MORE Exhibition opening: Facts and Fabulations

Facts and Fabulations, an exhibition of the New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab will open on 9 April, 2026. The opening will be preceded by a short talk by the curator Marcos Martins and the assistant curator Katlego Tiisetso Nkoana.
March 16, 2023

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023

H.E. Fionnuala Gilsenan, Ambassador of Ireland to South Africa, and the Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Professor Tyrone Pretorius, are proud to announce the launch of UWC’s Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson Research Chair at the Centre for Humanities Research.
March 9, 2023

OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices

Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are pleased to announce the start of a joint project, OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices, and an open call for artist residency applications from sound artists, scholars and cultural practitioners based in southern Africa.
February 13, 2023

Rui Assubuji: Jackman Humanities Institute Fellowship

The CHR congratulates Rui Assubuji on his recent appointment as Research Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Rui is currently a Research Associate within the SARChi Chair of Visual History and Theory and will be joining colleagues in Toronto in September where he will be working on his book manuscript and a multi-media exhibition based on the below proposal.
February 5, 2023

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Delhi’.

On 25 November, 2022, Suren Pillay took part in a working group session co-hosted by the Berlin University Alliance Centre and the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Dehli, on ‘Decolonial Thinking in a Comparative Perspective’.