November 15, 2021
CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.
November 9, 2021
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities.
November 9, 2021
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2023.
November 5, 2021
Kinetic Objects is a teaching collaboration emerging from the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute in the framework of the partnership on Aesthetic Education: A South North Dialogue, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
November 4, 2021
UWC congratulates Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, a former postdoctoral fellow hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research, on her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
November 3, 2021
The CHR congratulates colleague Dr Pallavi Narayan on the publication of Pamuk’s Istanbul: The Self and the City.
November 3, 2021
Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
October 12, 2021
It was with a profound sense of loss that the we learned of the death of Shane Petzer, the Social Responsibility Officer from the Magpie Art Collective.
October 7, 2021
Join the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 12 October 2021 for “Twice heard and newly told,” a paper by Phindi Mnyaka.
September 8, 2021
CHR Artist in Residence Juan Orrantia will present his ongoing artistic work “Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 14 September 2021.
August 31, 2021
The CHR is excited to share the following announcement by the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape as they launch a year-long fellowship programme.
August 11, 2021
CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo confronts the momentous challenges facing theatre makers with his solo show Commission Continua, performed online for the 2021 National Arts Festival.