August 5, 2025
Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
August 1, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.
June 27, 2025
Kim Gurney’s latest publication for The Conversation discusses five indie art spaces in African cities worth knowing more about.
June 23, 2025
The CHR was delighted to receive The Sky Beneath (2022) by artist and sculptor Diana Vives at the Iyatsiba Lab in June 2025. Originally exhibited at Everard Read in Cape Town, The Sky Beneath is now mounted in the reception area of the Iyatsiba Lab. The title of this partially submerged sphere refers to a theory by the ancient Greek philosopher Anaximander, who radically questioned prevailing worldviews, embracing uncertainty as a path to knowledge.
June 17, 2025
Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
May 7, 2025
The CHR’s Premesh Lalu will be giving the annual African Studies Lecture at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University, on Monday 12 May.
March 27, 2025
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
January 13, 2025
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.
January 13, 2025
The CHR is delighted to announce that Professor Premesh Lalu has been awarded the British Academy/NRF UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.
April 22, 2024
Between the 12th and the 18th of March CHR faculty and colleagues from the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society met for a ten-day workshop on the question: What is the University for?