READ MOREHumanities in Session: Indenture Aesthetics in South Africa with Jordache Ellapen
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.READ MOREEncounters Documentary Film Festival: Encounters Talks
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June. READ MOREWorkshop: The Physics of Technocultural Locations
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations.
Maurits van Bever Donker’s Texturing Difference “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, was published with Polity Press in December 2024.
The CHR is delighted to announce that Erich Hörl has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society, University of Lüneburg.
On Thursday 31 October, the CHR will be hosting a conversation on biographies between Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin) and Ciraj Rassool (UWC) under the auspices of the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair (CMMR).
The CHR’s Documentary Film Programme, European Film Festival, and the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair, will be co-hosting a screening of The Quiet Girl, byColm Bairéad, on Tuesday 15 October at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
On Tuesday 24 September 2024, the CHR took part in the Boschendal Heritage Day festivities, which involved puppet making workshops with school learners, and a giant puppet parade through Boschendal farm.
The launch of the latest edition of Kronos, ‘God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique’, takes place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Thursday 3 October 2024.
The CHR is delighted to announce that Sound Working Group Convenors, Aidan Erasmus, Valmont Layne and Lee Walters have received a joint Creative Arts Output Award for their outstanding contributions to Research and Innovation at the University of the Western Cape.
In August 2024, a CHR delegation met with leadership and Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues at Sol Plaatje University to discuss future collaborations and joint research initiatives.