April 8, 2024

Film screening: ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ by Adam Low

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening 'Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ (88 minutes, Ireland, 2019) by Adam Low on Wednesday 17 April 2024, which will be followed by a QnA with the director.
March 27, 2024

Against the Colonial Partition of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Mahmoud Darwish, Elias Khoury, and the Path Towards a Decolonial Alternative

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network.
March 20, 2024

New Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship applications

Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) offers a range of research grants and fellowships in 2022-2025 to support new research activity in the UWC archives.
February 16, 2024

Moving Mountains: The 2023 Barrydale Parade

Through the years the annual parade and performance in Barrydale has brought together artists, scholars, researchers and publics not only from across Barrydale and Cape Town, but nationally and internationally as well.