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READ MORE Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson

‘Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson’, launched on 14 November 2025 at the Akademie der Künste (ADK). It is a project by the Akademie der Künste in collaboration with the CHR, and the Haus für Poesie, Berlin.
READ MORE Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO

The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the final session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
READ MORE Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre

Lester Kiewit speaks to Promesh Lalu, a UWC research professor, on the lessons we can learn from the Trojan Horse Massacre in 1985, as well as the misconceptions about those at grassroots level fighting the apartheid machine with intellect and limited resources.
June 17, 2025

Workshop Announcement: Theory in/as Practice – Practice in/as Theory, Leuphana University, Lüneburg

Theory in/as Practice - Practice in/as Theory is a workshop (19 June) hosted by “Cultures of Critique”, at Leuphana University, Lüneburg.
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June 17, 2025

Artists Forum: Shakespeare to Gaza

The Artists Forum connects scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, so as to bring artists’ and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency
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June 6, 2025

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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May 28, 2025

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 21, 2025

Artists Forum with Fatima Dike

The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.
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May 16, 2025

Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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April 23, 2025

Africa, Philosophy and the Image

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
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April 3, 2025

Waterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond

The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you.
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March 12, 2025

Nikolai Brandes

Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
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March 11, 2025

Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon

Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres.
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March 11, 2025

Erich Hörl

Leuphana University, Lüneburg
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March 10, 2025

Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.

CHR Extraordinary Professor, Erich Hörl, will be giving a series of seminars and a public lecture in March at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab.
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  • Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
    November 25, 2025
  • Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO
    November 21, 2025
  • Good Morning Cape Town with Lester Kiewet: Remembering the Trojan Horse Massacre
    November 5, 2025
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