The Herds
We are proud to announce that Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective will be joining ‘The Herds' as they travel with life-sized animal puppets from Kinshasa to Norway....
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ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards for 2025 are now open....
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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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The CHR welcomes 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 and the launch of the CHR’s Humanities hub on 30 July.
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.
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati in conversation with Candice Jansen (New Archival Visions Digital Curatorial Fellow).
From May 28-June 1, 2024, the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host the CHCI’s Annual Meeting. On 30 May, the CHR’s Professor Maurits van Bever Donker will chair a discussion on ‘Humanities at Risk’.
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 the question: What is the University for?
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.
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.
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.