On 20 February 2015, the Centre for Humanities Research hosted the first Distinguished Lecture in its African Humanities and Letters Lecture Series for 2015 at the newly established Dullah Omar Centre for Critical Thought in African Humanities (DOCCTAH) in Athlone, Cape Town.

Hassan El Geretly (director, El Warsha Theatre Troupe, Cairo) and Neo Muyanga (musician/composer, Cape Town) held a discussion on “Performance and Social Change: from Cairo to Cape Town”.