October 20, 2020
Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
Published by Ohio University Press, 2019
October 13, 2020
As South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South Africa to represent the plight of a refugee child.
October 6, 2020
A CHR Webinar held by the Other Universals Consortium with Aditya Nigam
October 1, 2020
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is pleased to announce the 2021 Fellowship competition for Post-doctoral, PhD, MA and Honours awards.
September 18, 2020
The CHR is delighted to announce the publication of Acting Director and Associate Professor, Heidi Grunebaum, poetry collection ‘The Book of the Missing’.
September 18, 2020
The CHR's Professor Jane Taylor, from the Laboratory for Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), has filmed and directed a series of one minute films that will be posted one a day for this week at the Centre for the Less Good Idea.
September 15, 2020
The CHR is delighted to announce Doctoral fellow, Phokeng Setai, and part-time research assistant in the curatorial department at the Zeitz MOCCA, will be in conversation with filmmaker Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese about his films Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You (2019), at the Zeitz MOCCA: Radical Solidarity Summit.
September 14, 2020
The CHR congratulates Patricia Hayes, SARChI Chair in Visual History, and Gary Minkley, SARChI Chair in Social Change, on the publication of their latest co-edited book Ambivalent.
September 8, 2020
A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
September 5, 2020
A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Heidi Grunebaum
September 5, 2020
Our warm congratulations to CHR doctoral fellow, Nsima Udo for being named recipient of the African Critical Inquiry Programme's 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award for his doctoral project, "The Politics of Aesthetics and Performance: Visuality and the Remaking of Culture in the Calabar Festival and Carnival, 2004-2019." A fantastic achievement!
September 5, 2020
As part of the Arts Research Africa dialogue, the CHR’s Professor Jane Taylor was interviewed