Douglas Mulliken Current Fellows: Postdoctoral Douglas Mulliken is an Andrew W. Mellon CHR Flagship Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of the Western Cape. His research examines representations of violence in…
The CHR congratulates doctoral fellow Rui Assubuji on winning the Ster Kinekor Encounters Youth Experience Award for Best Short Film at the 20th Encounters Film Festival. His film, The Art…
The CHR is pleased to announce that three documentaries produced as part of the Documentary Film course will show at this years 20th Annual Encounters South African International Film Festival….
Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies Public Lecture hosted by The Centre for Humanities Research and the Department of Political Studies…
THE LAUNCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Join the NRF-DST Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities, University of the Western Cape and Wits University Press for the launch of historian, Jon…
Other Universals, is a supra-national project supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, over a five year period. The project creates a consortium of scholars across a number of universities,…
The most recent very significant threshold to note is that the Greatmore building in Woodstock, which will house the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects, has finally been secured and we are…
During April 2018, CHR’s MA Fellow, Zuko Wonderfull Sikhafungana, was invited to be a judge at the Third Annual Thola Drama Festival at the Lwandle Community Hall in Strand. Participating…
CHR director Professor Premesh Lalu will speak at the 25th Annual International Roundtable at the Institute for Global Citizenship at Macalester College. The Roundtable, which also features speakers such as…
Date: Fri, 04/27/2018 – 12:00pm Event Location: 537 Heller Hall, 19th Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN, 55455 Ukwanda Puppets & Designs Art Collective was developed through the mentorship of Handspring Puppet…
The workshop organisers are Suren Pillay, CHR, UWC, Asanda Benya (Dept. of Sociology, UCT), and Faisal Garba (Post Doctoral Fellow, CHR, UWC). Venue: Centre for Humanities Research, UWC Date: April…
Janne Rantala Current Fellows: Postdoctoral Janne Rantala is a cultural anthropologist who defended his thesis in September 2017 at the University of Eastern Finland. His research interests include themes such…