October 3, 2023
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Emerita Professor Jane Taylor on the 6th of September.
September 26, 2023
The Other Universals Consortium Virtual Talk
September 20, 2023
The CHR warmly congratulates senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, for being awarded "Best Faculty Academic Impact: Creative Arts Output Award 2022", at the recent UWC Research Recognition Award ceremony.
September 7, 2023
11-14 September 2023
September 7, 2023
ICGC Visiting Scholar and the CHR’s Convener of the Factory of the Arts, Itumuleng Wa Lehulere, will be giving a lecture at the ICGC Colloquium Series, on 8 September 2023, as part of his residency at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change.
September 6, 2023
Keynote Address: Gascia Ouzounian
August 25, 2023
The CHR’s Lwando Scott will be participating in this year’s Open Book Festival on 10 September 2023.
August 21, 2023
The Maxeke - Robinson Research Chair, Eoin Mcnamee, will be leading a creative writing workshop at the Wits Writing Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, on 24 August.
August 17, 2023
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
August 10, 2023
Kitso Lelliot’s exhibition, ‘To dream a more livable place...a performance in anticipation’, will be staged as part of this year’s Winter School Programme.
August 10, 2023
The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
August 1, 2023
The CHR, in collaboration with Berlin based partners, Akademie der Künste and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst are pleased to announce the names of artists selected from the April 2023 Oscillations Open Call for Residency. For this call, the jury reviewed 80 applications.