by Premesh Lalu (HSRC Press, 2009) In 1996, as South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was beginning its hearings, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from the town of Butterworth in…
by Jane Taylor in Performing The Secular: Religion, Representation, and Politics (Eds) Milija Gluhovic and Jisha Menon (2017) With a foreword from Rustom Bharucha, this book is a timely anthology…
Edited by Premesh Lalu and Noëleen Murray Chapters include contributions from: Julia Martin, Premesh Lalu, Noëleen Murray, Ciraj Rassool, Neil Myburgh, Emile Maurice, Keith Gottschalk, Arthur Nortje, Deela Kahn, Wendy…
B Admin (UWC) Administrator Finance Officer Lameez has completed her B.Admin degree at the University of the Western Cape, majoring in public administration and industrial psychology. She has been the…
Premesh Lalu Professor Former Director Professor Premesh Lalu is the former Director of the DSI-NRF Flagship on Critical Thought in African Humanities of the Centre for Humanities Research. Following an…
The CHR is pleased to invite you to the opening of ‘New Jerusalem’, an exhibition of photographic work by the Visual History class of 2017. Date: 26 September 2017 Time:…
The CHR will be hosting a public screening of Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, based on James Baldwin’s unpublished Remember This House. Date: 27 September 2017 Time: 1PM…
Click to view The CHR is delighted to announce that Honours fellow, Zuko Sikhafungana’s latest achievement in the arts. Zuko plays two different characters in the film “INDODA” which has…
Click to view The (visual) subject International Workshop on Visual History and Theory Cape Town 22-23 September 2017 The annual workshop in Visual History and Theory in 2017 takes as…
Kemang Wa Lehulere is one of the artists exhibiting work as part of ‘Athlone in Mind’, the CHR’s upcoming group exhibition of commissioned contemporary art curated by Dr Kurt Campbell….
An exhibition bringing into memory the performances of an Eastern Cape Choir touring the UK and America in the late 19th Century. Presented by Tshisa Boys Productions composers Philip Miller…
Eric Sunu Doe, recipient of the Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award for 2017 The African Critical Inquiry Programme has named Eric Sunu Doe as recipient of the 2017 Ivan Karp…