READ MOREBlackness is Blooming Symposium report
Blackness is Blooming was a symposium held at Zeitz Mocaa that delved into the complex experiences of exile and the aftermath of displacement as explored in the exhibition A Protea Is Not a Flower.READ MOREFilm Screening: Aquila, J.M. Coetzee and The Jesus Trilogy
The CHR welcomed J.M. Coetzee on his visit to the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab and was proud to host the screening of Aquila, a film by Callum Chiplin and Jade Harris-Tyler, based on Coetzee’s The Jesus Trilogy.READ MOREOpen Call: The Cape Town Workshop
We are delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully funded 12-day research and practice-led programme of workshops, discussions, and encounters with historical archives and contemporary practice in July 2027.
The Other Universals Consortium and the Center for Race, Gender and Class (University of Johannesburg) are organizing a colloquium on Race and Caste; Hierarchy and Universality at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study on Feb 21-23, 2023.
The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts will be hosting the symposium “Visualizing Pleasure and Practices of Freedom: A South/North Dialogue” in collaboration with the Centre for Humanities Research.
CHR Doctoral Fellow Phokeng Setai was among nine speakers invited to participate in the colloquium BLACK SELF/ a conversation, convened by Ashraf Jamal in partnership with the NIROX Foundation.
Professor David Scott will be delivering a keynote address titled “The Conjecture of 1956” as part of the Other Universals Virtual Institute 2021 inquiry into The Question of the Political: Thinking Difference in the Aftermaths of the Colonial Political Economy.
The CHR invites you to a colloquium on “Literary Pedagogies: Confronting Colonization” to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research on the 20th and 21st February 2020.
Between July 6th and July 10th 2019, the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO) at the CHR hosted a colloquium on Subject/Object relations, in an ongoing exploration of Animation, Animism, Thing Theory, the Subject and the Object, Puppetry Arts and performance.