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.
July 30, 2025
Herbie Tsoaeli, Attiyah Khan and Asher Gamedze, in conversation with Lindelwa Dalamba.
July 29, 2025
The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Maja Jakarasi as recipient of the 2025 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Jakarasi, a Zimbabwean student in the Anthropology Department, is working on his PhD at the University of the Western Cape. Support from ACIP’s Ivan Karp Award will allow Jakarasi to pursue significant research for his dissertation.
July 25, 2025
And I, a newly evolved fish, an exhibition by the RE-WIRING project, the Women's and Gender Studies Department, UWC, and the CHRs Iyatsiba Lab will be opening on Friday, 8 August 2025. The exhibition opening will be preceded by a seminar focusing on watery engagements.
July 20, 2025
We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest edition of Kronos, titled ‘Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network.’ This issue has been split into two sections, the second, Imagining the Environment, was co-edited by Patricia Hayes, Emma Minkley, and Caio Simoes de Araujo.
July 20, 2025
The 2025 International Workshop on Visual History & Theory will take place between October 14-15. It takes as its starting point the notion of gesture, which operates across a range of literal and conceptual levels.
July 18, 2025
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