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READ MORE ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: Encounters Film Screenings, Master Class & Panel Discussion at the CHR.

The CHR and Encounters will be hosting a film screening and master class with Brendan Canty on Monday, 21 September 2026, followed by a film screening and panel discussion on Tuesday, 22 September 2026 as part of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters monthly screening programme.
READ MORE Solo Showcase, Andile Yenana in Conversation with Valmont

The CHR and Jazz in the Native Yards will be hosting Andile Yenana for a Solo Showcase on Wednesday 23 September at Iyatsiba Lab.
READ MORE Exhibition Announcement: Home by Naoya Yoshikawa

The Iyatsiba Gallery Annexe at CHR is a participant venue for the city-wide Cape Town Photography Festival during September, hosting a solo exhibition by Naoya Yoshikawa.
February 19, 2025

UK-SA Bilateral chair in culture and technics

The British Academy/National Research Foundation UK-SA Bilateral Chair in Culture & Technics, held by Professor Premesh Lalu in the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
January 11, 2024

Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair

The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair emerges out of a longstanding collaboration between the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute (TLRH) at Trinity College Dublin that has focused on colonialism, partition, postcoloniality and race. Relationships and networks forged through these institutions’ fellowship programmes have laid the groundwork for the establishment of this research chair.