Professor Premesh Lalu attended and presented a paper titled ‘Race and Its Uncanny Returns: Building a Humanities Centre in a University of Aparthied’ at the Africa Institute’s international conference. The…
The CHR is excited to announce Missing and Missed: Subject, Politics, Memorialisation, a special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories. This journal issue is the product of an ongoing partnership…
Bruce Lee, Steve Biko, Dollar Brand: Brothers with imperfect timing or everybody was Kung-Fu fighting by: Premesh Lalu Giving Contours to Shadows. Storm Janse van Rensburg, & Bonaventure Ndikung (Eds)….
The CHR is pleased to announce that Professor Sara Guyer, President of the Consortium for Humanities Centres and Institutes, will be joining the CHR as an Affiliate Researcher in 2019….
On 15 November, the Centre for Humanities Research hosted a year-end colloquium at the new Greatmore building in Woodstock to celebrate the achievements of its fellows in 2018. The reception…
The CHR is pleased to announce that five current and former fellows are to graduate on 14 December 2018 at the University of the Western Cape. Among these, three are…
The Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance, Professor Jane Taylor, was invited to present the performance/lecture “Pan Troglodyte” at the Universite Paris 8 in November. The…
CHR Director Professor Premesh Lalu will take part in the Decolonizing Critical Theory: Decolonial Aesthetics and Epistemic Violence workshop hosted by the Critical Theory in the Global South project of…
Convening an interdisciplinary and geographically diverse group of humanistic scholars and public intellectuals, primarily from Africa, the Cape Town Global Humanities Curriculum workshop will offer a venue for discussing the…
The Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape and Jazz in the Native Yards invites to the Album Launch by Reza Khota…
Water has been at the forefront of public awareness in recent years. Water is life and the importance of active awareness around this precious resource has been made all the…
The CHR congratulates Artist in Residence Mandla Mlangeni on being a recipient of the 2019 Standard Bank Young Artist Award. The award acknowledges notable South African artists, in a variety…