March 18, 2021
Life-sized elephant puppet Mnumzane strolled across the Boschendal Estate on Sunday 14 March 2021, accompanied by little elephant Alfie, their path criss-crossed by the boisterous Dassie puppet.
May 5, 2020
The virtual conversation took place on Thursday, 30 April 2020.
March 2, 2020
The CHR’s Professor Premesh Lalu to present a paper titled: ‘Theatrical Politics: Ubu and the Truth Commission Revisited’ at The University of Stellenbosch.
September 2, 2019
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) congratulates Professor Premesh Lalu on his 12 years as Director of the CHR, and is excited to announce the next stage of his work with the CHR and UWC.
August 6, 2019
A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory.
July 9, 2019
Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” and he is described by former president Thabo Mbeki as “a fighter for the liberation of our people.”
April 15, 2019
The Global Humanities Curriculum Workshop held in December of 2018 enabled a rich set of connections and convergences around questions of the curriculum.
March 26, 2019
James Chandler acknowledges the CHR in a publication on aesthetic education and sensibility.
March 18, 2019
Professor Premesh Lalu attended an international conference at the Africa Institute, in Sharjah (UAE).
March 5, 2019
In January, CHCI held its first Africa Humanities Workshop in Addis Ababa, hosted by Elizabeth Giorgis, Associate Professor of Art History, Criticism and Theory in the College of Performing and Visual Art and the Center for African Studies at Addis Ababa University.
February 15, 2019
November 29, 2018
CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu to speak at workshop at Northwestern University