November 18, 2019
Nsima Udo, CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory wins prestigious Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.
November 14, 2019
The Centre for Humanities Research and partners Net vir Pret present the ninth annual Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade and Performance.
November 12, 2019
The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2020 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities and conducting dissertation research on relevant topics.
November 12, 2019
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2021.
October 25, 2019
Governing the ungovernable: contested legacies at the Chris Hani Memorial
October 21, 2019
Mamela Nyamza is an award-winning artist, choreographer, dancer and performer.
October 18, 2019
Lady Kennaway: A Ship Story
October 17, 2019
The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present. Through more than a century of deep level gold mining in South Africa, a legacy of illness, death and inequality has left its mark on the Southern African continent.
October 15, 2019
On 7 September 2019, prolific photographer and friend of the CHR Paul Grendon passed away. Patricia Hayes offers a tribute to his life and work.
October 15, 2019
Written and directed by CHR fellow Zuko Sikhafungana, The Crime Scene is on at Theatre Arts Admin Collective in early November.
October 14, 2019
Cinema desegregation and the fall of a drive-in’s 'Berlin Wall'
October 11, 2019
The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.