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…
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…
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…
Sound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin. Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin, will open on Fri 26 April at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. We are delighted to announce…
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott. Mine…
Application deadline: 30 March 2024. Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western…
The CHR was visited by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela, in March 2024. During his tour of the Iyatsiba Lab we spoke about the…
This event is scheduled to take place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art on March 13, 2024, as part of the Embassy’s St. Patrick’s Day programme. Imagining futures:…
WRITING A DECENTERED AND ENTANGLED HISTORY OF CINEMA-GOING: Epistemological and methodological issues The CHR’s Fernanda Pinto de Almeida presented a paper at the Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of…
The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2025 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards are now open. ACIP invites proposals from scholars and/or…
The CHR hosted its annual Winter School in August at the Greatmore Humanities Hub in Woodstock, Cape Town. Coalescing around the question of the “after” of coloniality, this years Winter…