The CHR welcomes Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Cesare Casarino. Professor Casarino will be co-teaching a course on ‘Global Aparthied’ at the CHR…
A colloquium hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation Date: 20 – 21 February 2020 Venue: CHR: Seminar…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Meleesha Bardolia (University of Melbourne) The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’…
In the first semester of 2020 Prof Cesare Casarino and Dr Ross Truscott will be co-teaching a graduate seminar on “Global Apartheid: A Genealogy of Biopolitical Sovereignty.” The course is…
Thozama April, a Next Generation scholar at the CHR, presented a paper titled ‘The Ideas and Legacy of Charlotte Maxeke at Sol Plaatje University on 9 January 2020, attended by…
The Citizenship and Justice platform, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape; the DST-NRF/British Academy Research Professor in Political Theory, Wits and Cambridge, with the Mphil programme in…
The CHR is delighted to be participating to the thematic session “The arts and rethinking the subject” as part of the first edition of the French-South African Science and Innovation…
The CHR congratulates postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects Aja Marneweck on the publication of ‘The Barrydale Giant Puppet Parade: mobilising creative ecologies in the Klein Karoo, South…
Professor David Scott was recently interviewed in part on some of the work done in his 2017 book Stuart Hall’s Voice, which was based on lectures given at the CHR…
Professor Suren Pillay, Senior Researcher at the CHR, participated in a podcast discussion titled ‘Why are immigrants under attack in South Africa?’ hosted on The Inquiry on the BBC’s World…
The Centre for Humanities Research warmly congratulates Professor Huey Copeland on the award of the Sawyer Seminars grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to convene the international project, “The…
The CHR congratulate Nsima Udo, currently a CHR Doctoral Fellow with the SARChI Chair in Visual History & Theory, for winning the prestigous Africa Thesis Award from the African Studies…