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READ MORE Public Workshop: In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World

The CHR, in collaboration with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Iziko Museums of South Africawill be hosting in Slavery’s Wake: making Black Freedom in the World, on 27 May 2026. READ MORE Facts and Fabulations

The exhibition Facts and Fabulations is the outcome of a Digital Curatorial Fellowship from the New Archival Visions Programme at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research. The project demonstrates how academic research can become a public, accessible, and participatory cultural experience. READ MORE DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA (NRF) Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics, & SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.

The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2027. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture and Technics, or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory....
April 19, 2024

Museum Fellowship Programme: Zeitz Mocaa and University of the Western Cape

The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) are pleased to announce an open call for a year-long museum fellowship programme, developed to educate a new generation of art and museum professionals in Africa.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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