The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at UWC is deeply saddened by the passing of our friend and colleague, Emerita Professor Jane Taylor on the 6th of September. Together with…
Oscillations Workshop: Sonic Inquiries and Practices 11-14 September 2023 Attuned to trans-hemispheric engagements in sound and knowledge production, the Akademie der Künste, the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the…
ICGC Visiting Scholar and the CHR’s Convener of the Factory of the Arts, Itumuleng Wa Lehulere, will be giving a lecture at the ICGC Colloquium Series, on 8 September 2023,…
The recording for a book launch of Premesh Lalu’s Undoing Apartheid is now available via the below link. Undoing Apartheid responds to the CHR’s inaugural question of the meaning of…
This year’s NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory Workshop will take place between 27-28 July. It coalesces around the title, ‘Power: Remaking selves, archives, environments’, and will include…
The CHR and the African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce that the 2024 ACIP Workshop will be Multispecies Stories from a Southern City. The project was proposed…
While an elusive concept, neoliberalism has come to denote a set of economic policies and principles grounded on individualism, market deregulation, and extensive privatisation. Neoliberalism has also, however, come to…
The CHR would like to congratulate Lebogang Mokwena and Arnaldo Caliche for being accepted to participate in the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS), South African Institute for Policy and…
Deadline: 15 June. The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) is hosting a music production workshop alongside their annual conference later this year. This conference is hosted by…
A Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) Lecture On 6 June, Premesh Lalu will be giving a lecture as part of the programme for the opening of the Leuphana Institute…
The CHR’s Premesh Lalu’s much anticipated new book, Undoing Apartheid, appears in November 2022 with Polity Press. The book responds to the CHR’s inaugural question of the meaning of post-apartheid…
Power: remaking selves, archives, environments Visual History & Theory Workshop 27-28 July 2023 Call for Papers Workshop date: 27-28 July 2023 Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 June 2023 Venue:…