September 15, 2025
Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
September 10, 2025
The New Archival Visions (NAV) programme at the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape (UWC), is offering fellowships for the remainder of 2025. Funding support comes from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET).
September 9, 2025
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September 9, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the second session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run until December 2025.
August 28, 2025
We are delighted to announce that New Archival Visions Fellows, Ingrid Masondo and Tammy-Lee Lakay, have been awarded Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa Proposal Fellowships with the Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC).
August 25, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
August 22, 2025
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.
August 19, 2025
The Centre for Humanities Research (UWC) and the Encounters South African International Documentary Film Festival cordially invite you to the opening session of ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE: The CHR-Encounters Documentary Series, a monthly screening programme which will run from now until December 2025.
August 18, 2025
The book launch of Research and Activism: Ruth First & Activist Research, will take place on Wednesday 3 September (3:00pm-5:00pm) at the Iyatsiba Lab.
August 5, 2025
Kim Gurney will be giving an online keynote on Wednesday 5 August, for ‘Residency Re-sourced’, a collaborative project run by Goethe-Institut Nigeria.
August 1, 2025
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.
July 31, 2025
We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape have signed two historic memoranda of understanding with Compagnie Sogolon, Bamako, Mali, and Iziko Museums of South Africa.