June 30, 2026
A Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair film screening and lecture, in conjunction with the CHR's annual Winter School Programme.
June 24, 2026
The UK-SA Chair in Culture & Technics, a bilateral programme between the British Academy and South Africa’s National Research Foundation, convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
June 2, 2026
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.
May 26, 2026
The Transnational Technocultures Research Group (Rayvon Fouchè | Northwestern University, Premesh Lalu | University of the Western Cape, Tiziana Terranova | University of Naples L’Orientale, Domietta Torlasco | Northwestern University) invites you to, The Physics of Technocultural Locations.
May 22, 2026
The CHR, in collaboration with the Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice at Brown University, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, and Iziko Museums of South Africawill be hosting in Slavery’s Wake: making Black Freedom in the World, on 27 May 2026.
May 21, 2026
The exhibition Facts and Fabulations is the outcome of a Digital Curatorial Fellowship from the New Archival Visions Programme at the UWC Centre for Humanities Research. The project demonstrates how academic research can become a public, accessible, and participatory cultural experience.
May 15, 2026
This session focuses on the work and photography of Cedric Nunn, who will be in conversation with Candice Jansen.
May 12, 2026
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Little Museum of Dublin are proud to present Together/Apart, which opened in Ireland in May and will open in South Africa in August.
May 6, 2026
Artistic Director and co-founder of Rough Magic Theatre Company
May 6, 2026
Writer and Playwright
May 5, 2026
Institute for the Arts and Humanities (IAH), University of North Carolina (UNC)
and Extraordinary Professor, CHR.
April 28, 2026
The CHR was delighted to host and be associated with the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), who held a summit at Iyatsiba Lab in April 2026.