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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. The Forum’s objective has been to connect scholarly exploration with the CHR’s Artist in Residency programme, and to bring artists and humanistic study into a more intimate adjacency. READ MOREThe Polyrhythmic Ensemble
The Polyrhythmic Ensemble was formed in 2023 with the aim of creating new works based around research into contrapuntal and polyrhythmic African music. READ MORETroubling the divide: Jazz, History and the new African
An interview with Lindelwa Dalamba
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.
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.
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.
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the ends of a sensory order in postbellum United States.
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more importantly, to care for the future of its educational responsibilities.
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.
We are pleased to announce that Maurits van Bever Donker has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March.
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening James Joyce's ULYSSES (88 minutes, UK, 2022) by Adam Low on Thursday 27 February 2025, followed by a Q&A with the director.