February 14, 2020
The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
February 13, 2020
Moths to the Flame: Photography and the Capitalocene
February 10, 2020
The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
February 6, 2020
Critical theorist, filmmaker, and associate professor of Italian and comparative literature at Northwestern University Domietta Torlasco will be hosted by the CHR from 24 February to 23 March 2020.
January 28, 2020
A seminar course on Global Apartheid co-taught by Professor Cesare Casarino and Dr. Ross Truscott will take place in the first semester of 2020.
January 28, 2020
Thozama April presented a paper at Sol Plaatje University on her research on Charlotte Maxeke on 9 January 2020.
December 10, 2019
A conference hosted by the CHR from 17 - 18 December 2019 will explore the relationship between the genealogy, the concept and the practice of democracy.
December 2, 2019
The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation Days.
November 25, 2019
A new publication by Aja Marneweck explores the multifaceted process of creating the large-scale annual public puppetry event, The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade, in the rural town of Barrydale, South Africa.
November 19, 2019
Professor David Scott is currently Extraordinary Professor in the CHR from 2019-2021.
November 18, 2019
Professor Suren Pillay of the CHR participated in a conversation around xenophobic violence in South Africa.
November 18, 2019
The Centre for Humanities Research warmly congratulates Professor Huey Copeland on the award of the $225,000 Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene the international project, “The Black Arts Archive: The Challenge of Translation.”