July 12, 2022
The CHR warmly congratulates recipients of the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards, namely Vanessa Chen, Min’enhle Ncube and Suzana Sousa.
July 11, 2022
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.
December 21, 2021
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.
April 27, 2021
The CHR is excited to share the DSI and NRF call for new applications for Postgraduate Student Funding in 2022.
February 18, 2021
Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
January 22, 2021
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.
December 28, 2020
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).
October 20, 2020
Edited by Patricia Hayes and Gary Minkley
Published by Ohio University Press, 2019
November 18, 2019
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.
September 30, 2019
From 4 - 6 October, the International Workshop in Visual History and Theory will convene around the theme Other Lives of the Image.
June 20, 2019
Call for papers: International Workshop in Visual History & Theory