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…
The Centre for Humanities Research invites you to The Subject Races: Populations, Classifications, Justice Date: 26 October 2018 Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pm Venue: Room 2, Centre for Humanities Research, Old…
This short documentary film, A Future Museum Against Apartheid, showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection. Beginning in the early 1990s, a group of artists in France were…
This short documentary film, A Future Museum Against Apartheid, showcases the work of the Art Against Apartheid collection. Beginning in the early 1990s, a group of artists in France were…
LoKO (the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects) is immersed in a busy cycle of making and thinking. We will be hosting the annual Jakes Gerwel Anniversary celebration at the CHR’s newly…
Phokeng Setai DSI-NRF Early Career Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai is an Early Career Doctoral Fellow with the DSI-NRF Flagship. He is registered in the Department of Anthropology at UWC. His…
Kim Gurney, a Next Generation Scholar in the CHR, has been invited to give an opening talk for a Nordic research conference on public art organised by the Public Art…
**PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS WORKSHOP IS NOW FULLY BOOKED** The workshop is concerned with the ways histories are written and assembled, and the materials used to narrate or analyze the…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Swati Arora (Centre for Humanities Research Fellow, UWC) Left to…
William Kentridge: That Which is Not Remembered By Jane Taylor Andrew W Mellon Chair of Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance Centre for Humanities Research University of the Western Cape ‘Prepared…
On the Edge of History: Photographs & African Archives International Workshop on Visual History & Theory Cape Town 27-28 September 2018 This is not simply another colloquium about African photography…
The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Mary Mbewe as recipient of the 2018 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award. Mbewe is a Zambian student pursuing her PhD in the Department…