Workshop Archives - The Centre for Humanities Research

November 19, 2024

Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects.

The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert.

November 19, 2024

Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings

In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research presents Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.

November 11, 2024

Physical and Vocal Scores Creation

In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.

November 6, 2024

Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, Puppetry for all ages at the Theatre Arts

In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA.

October 31, 2024

Exploring the Fruitful Relationships Between Text, Puppets, and Objects

Facilitated by Isabelle Matter, Puppeteer-Director and Director of the Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève.

October 21, 2024

Puppet animation in the digital stage

a dynamic interaction between bodies, silhouettes, and video-mapped animations within a micro-stage space

June 10, 2024

Call for Papers: Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep time, shallow time.

Abstracts are invited for participation in the annual workshop in Visual History & Theory to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, on 19-20 September 2024.

May 31, 2024

Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida appointed as Senior Researchers at the CHR.

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida as Senior Researchers at the Centre for Humanities Research.

April 22, 2024

Workshop: What is the University?

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?

August 21, 2023

What The Weather Was

The Maxeke - Robinson Research Chair, Eoin Mcnamee, will be leading a creative writing workshop at the Wits Writing Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, on 24 August.

July 12, 2023

2024 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: Multispecies Stories from a Southern City

The CHR and the African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2024 ACIP Workshop will be Multispecies Stories from a Southern City.

July 6, 2023

Workshop: Black Radical Thought and Neoliberalism, Call for Papers

While an elusive concept, neoliberalism has come to denote a set of economic policies and principles grounded on individualism, market deregulation, and extensive privatisation.