June 27, 2025
Kim Gurney’s latest publication for The Conversation discusses five indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about.
June 23, 2025
The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor Diana Vives at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. Originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, The Sky Beneath is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to a theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge.
June 18, 2025
The CHR, UWC and the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics will be hosting a number of Encounters Documentary Film Festival Events at the Iyatsiba Lab, including for the Encounters Infocus Industry Programme, Deeper Dialogues, Sharper Visions - One Story at a time (see the programme below). We are also pleased to announce the screening of two Digital humanities chair supported films: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars.
June 17, 2025
Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
June 17, 2025
The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency
June 9, 2025
We are pleased to announce that Heidi Grunebaum has been invited to join the Academic Advisory Board of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect based at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
June 6, 2025
The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
May 7, 2025
The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
April 30, 2025
It’s National Archives Week.
April 23, 2025
The Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology (FEBIT) under the tutelage of Prof. Wendy Setlalentoa, acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Innovation and Engagement, recently kicked off its first workshop for the Research Centre on Human-Technology Interaction (CHTI).
April 3, 2025
The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards for 2025 are now open.
March 27, 2025
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.