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            A listening session with Leila Bencharnia

            The Sound Working Group at the Centre for Humanities Research will host a listening session with composer, sound artist, and textile researcher Leila Bencharnia, on Sunday, 8 June 2025.
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            DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.

            The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications from candidates seeking grantholder endorsement for DSTI-NRF Master’s and Doctoral Student Funding for the academic year 2026. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR under either the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities or the SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
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            In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba

            A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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            May 24, 2022

            The Crime Scene

            The CHR is delighted is announce CHR doctoral fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana, will be staging his production The Crime Scene at the National Arts Festival this year.
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            April 30, 2020

            CHR Doctoral and Masters Fellows Graduate

            We wish them every success as they pursue their advanced postgraduate and postdoctoral studies as CHR fellows
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            October 15, 2019

            The Crime Scene

            Written and directed by CHR fellow Zuko Sikhafungana, The Crime Scene is on at Theatre Arts Admin Collective in early November.
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            May 3, 2018

            CHR fellow invited to judge at Thola Drama Festival

            This past month the CHR's MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand.
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            • A listening session with Leila Bencharnia
              June 6, 2025
            • DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
              June 2, 2025
            • In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
              May 28, 2025
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