As part of an ongoing research collaboration, colleagues from the CHR will be joining other partner institutions for the 2019 CHCI Global Humanities Institute on the ‘Challenges of Translation’. This…
Professor Premesh Lalu celebrates David Koloane’s life as a purveyor of “a lover’s discourse” in a piece published in the Daily Maverick. The passing of David Koloane was a sad…
The CHR production of Warona performed by Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective has been voted the 2019 Standard Bank Ovation Award at the Makhanda Arts Festival. The Ukwanda team are…
Heidi Grunebaum’s manuscript, has been selected by JK Anowe to be one of seven manuscripts for publication in the 2019/2020 poetry Chapbook Series. Grunebaum’s entry is titled “Book of The…
CHR Artist in Residence and Standard Bank Young Artist for Jazz 2019 Mandla Mlangeni will provide a musical journey as part of Oratorio of a Forgotten Youth: Musical Reflections on…
The Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, Invites you to WARONA Presented by: Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Company. CAPE TOWN Date: 17 June @ 15:00 18 June…
A public Lecture in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research Presenter: Dr. Kim Gurney, Next Generation Researcher position in the Centre for Humanities Research, University…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Willemien Froneman (Africa Open Institute, Stellenbosch University) Nico Carstens, Disavowal,…
A new paper by Next Generation Scholars Lauren van der Rede and Aidan Erasmus has appeared in a global-e journal Special Issue Series on Mnemonic Solidarity in the Global Memory…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Wilton Schereka (Centre for Humanities Research, UWC) Speculate – troubling…
Convening an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse group of humanistic scholars and public intellectuals, primarily from Africa, the Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum workshop offered a venue for discussing the ideas,…
The CHR congratulates Heidi Grunebaum, Kurt Campbell, Reza Khota, and Kitso Lelliot on winning a number of important awards at this year’s National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences…