READ MOREEncounters Documentary Film Festival: Encounters Talks
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June. READ MOREWorkshop: The Physics of Technocultural Locations
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations. READ MOREPublic 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.
The CHR encourages the call for papers for the Transience and the image workshop to be convened from th1 19-20 August 2022 at the Centre for Humanities Research.
We are pleased to share that the University of the Western Cape is offering four doctoral fellowships based at the Centre for Humanities Research to commence in 2022.
Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2022.
The SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory underwent its first-phase review in 2020 and has been awarded a second phase of funding for 2021-5 by the National Research Foundation (NRF).
Nsima Udo, CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory wins prestigious Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.