The CHR and Wits University Press is pleased to announce the publication of: Remains of the Social: Desiring the Post-Apartheid Edited by Maurits van Bever Donker, Ross Truscott, Gary Minkley…
Conversations is a new series of public dialogues with jazz musicians and their legacies convened by the Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the…
The Centre for Humanities Research, Other Universals – NIHSS Catalytic Project and the University of Cape Town invite you to a public lecture by Professor Gopal Guru (Centre for Political…
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 its…
The CHR’s platform on Aesthetics and Politics invites you to a film screening as part of a series convened by CHR fellow, Dee Marco. The film, Noma (2016) by Pablo…
Carlos Forment is Associate Professor of Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Citizenship and Justice: Rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy, a project of the Centre for Humanities…
Click to Enlarge Please join us for the launch of ‘Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward a Theory of Emancipatory Politics’, a new book by Professor Michael Neocosmos: Date: Tuesday,…
10 – 13 August 2017 Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town The 2017 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) will explore the multiple ways in…
The Factory of the Arts of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape invites to you a tribute to artists Ncedile Daki and Mluleki Sam, who have…
Please join us for the opening of ‘Voortrekker Gateways’, an exhibition of work by Visual History students. Date: 28 March, 2017 Time: 3:45pm Venue: Centre for Humanities Research, UWC View…
Centre for Humanities Research & Department of History, University of the Western Cape South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar Nigel Gibson (Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson…
The CHR’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Chair in Aesthetic Theory and Material Performance Jane Taylor has a new book coming out with University of Chicago Press titled ‘William Kentridge: Being…