Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Sam Longford (Department of History, UWC) Governing the ungovernable: contested…
On 7 September 2019, prolific photographer and friend of the CHR Paul Grendon passed away. His presence in person and in his work has left an indelible mark on the…
The Crime Scene is on at Theatre Arts Admin Collective, Methodist Church Hall, cnr Milton and Wesley Street, Observatory, 7 – 8 November 2019, at 19h00. Tickets are R70 per…
Professor Jane Taylor (Andrew Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance at the CHR) is participating in the launch of the Mellon funded Arts Laboratory at the University of…
Professor Premesh Lalu will step down from his position as director of the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), a position held for a period of twelve years at the University…
Congratulations to Valmont Layne for graduating with his doctorate. Layne was an Andrew Mellon and NRF Flagship Doctoral Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research, here at the University of…
The CHR is delighted to announce that Dr Thozama April, Next Generation Researcher at CHR, UWC will be awarded The Charlotte Mannya Maxeke Award by the Charlotte Maxeke Institute in…
During August, the CHR will host two visiting scholars: Steve Akoth (Kenyatta University) and Tom Asher (Columbia University). Akoth and Asher will run a seminar titled Built Form, Design, and…
What is the University for? by: Premesh Lalu A new paper by Professor Premesh Lalu has been published in Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory. The paper, titled ‘What…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Okechukwu Nwafor (Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research) Funeral…
Phokeng Setai is an A.W. Mellon doctoral candidate in Anthropology/Sociology department who is working on his doctoral thesis with the working title Contemporary artistic formations: On the role of curatorial…
This report was written by Professor Jane Taylor. Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations,…