The Herd: The CHR’s Ukwanda joins a global project on climate change
Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) house artists, Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective have been commissioned to design and develop the prototypes for The Herd, a world-first arts intervention on climate change....
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Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.
The CHR is delighted to announce that the Maxeke–Robinson Research Chair, Rita Duffy, will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Wednesday 24 July, at the Iyatsiba Lab, Woodstock....
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2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in African University Museums....
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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.
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes’ Humanities Administration Network
Kitso Lelliot’s exhibition, ‘To dream a more livable place...a performance in anticipation’, will be staged as part of this year’s Winter School Programme.
The CHR welcomes Eoin McNamee, inaugural visiting scholar and artist of the Charlotte Maxeke–Mary Robinson Research Chair to present a public lecture on “Sequins, Pearls and Amobarbital: the Border in Ireland as unconcluded space” at 15:30 on Wednesday 9 August, at the Humanities Hub, Woodstock.
The CHR, in collaboration with Berlin based partners, Akademie der Künste and Deutschlandfunk Kultur / Klangkunst are pleased to announce the names of artists selected from the April 2023 Oscillations Open Call for Residency. For this call, the jury reviewed 80 applications.