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READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
READ MORE Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom

In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s)...
READ MORE Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making

‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
April 7, 2022

Muslim Identity in the Colonial South Africa

The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar series presents “Muslim Identity in the Colonial South Africa” by Halim Gençoğlu.
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March 25, 2022

Land Bonds

The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a presentation by doctoral candidate Tara Weinberg (University of Michigan).
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March 18, 2022

Our Ghosts Were Once People

The South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar invites you to a conversation with Bongani Kona on his new edited volume Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying (Jonathan Ball, 2021).
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March 10, 2022

Kerala Council for Historical Research Launches Love and Revolution

The CHR is pleased to share that the Kerala Council for Historical Research (KCHR) will be hosting a launch for Love and Revolution in the Twentieth-Century Colonial and Postcolonial World: Perspectives from South Asia and Southern Africa.
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March 7, 2022

Public Lecture: Brian Friel’s Making History and Colonial Ireland

The CHR in partnership with Zeitz MOCAA invites you to a public lecture by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer.
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February 25, 2022

Puppet Walk and Performance at Boschendal’s Plum Harvest Festival

After the great success of the elephant puppet walk at the Boschendal Plum Harvest Festival in 2021, we will be celebrating this year’s festival with giant puppets to raise awareness of the living waters and aquatic life of our planet.  
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February 23, 2022

In the Press: Buhle Ngaba on CHR Charlotte Maxeke Production

CHR Artist in Residence Buhle Ngaba is writing a screenplay for a groundbreaking puppetry production on the life of Charlotte Maxeke.
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February 17, 2022

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022

Call for applications: National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences/ University of the Western Cape Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme 2022.
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February 9, 2022

Book Launch with Lwando Scott

Join CHR Next Generation Scholar Lwando Scott for the launch of the Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness (Routledge, 2022), where he will discuss his chapter “Paradoxes of Racism: Whiteness in Gay Pages Magazine.”
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December 21, 2021

Doctoral Fellowships (2022-5): New Archival Visions

We are pleased to share that the University of the Western Cape is offering four doctoral fellowships based at the Centre for Humanities Research to commence in 2022.
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December 21, 2021

Call for Abstracts: Kronos Special Issue on Sound

Kronos: Southern African Histories is seeking submissions for the 2022 special issue “Oral/Aural: Pastness and Sound as Medium and Method.”
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December 17, 2021

Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert Awarded Gold Medals by UWC

The CHR warmly congratulates Peter Takelo and Derek Joubert of our partners Net vir Pret for being awarded Gold Medals by UWC.
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  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
  • Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom
    October 29, 2025
  • Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive – Exploring memory through zine-making
    October 24, 2025
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