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READ MORE Book Launch: A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa, by Mark Sanders.

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
READ MORE ‘Queerness, Blackness and the Postcolony’ with Lwando Scott

A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
READ MORE Exhibition opening: Facts and Fabulations

Facts and Fabulations, an exhibition of the New Archival Visions Programme at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab will open on 9 April, 2026. The opening will be preceded by a short talk by the curator Marcos Martins and the assistant curator Katlego Tiisetso Nkoana.
March 30, 2021

Aesthetics and Politics: A Dialogue Across Continents

Join the CHR’s Heidi Grunebaum and members of the Other Universals Consortium Aaron Kamugisha (University of the West Indies), Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi (University of Johannesburg), and Chika Mba (University of Ghana) for an online conversation with colleagues at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
January 22, 2021

The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports African Literature of Travel

The CHR congratulates director, Professor Heidi Grunebaum, on the publication of her latest chapter titled: ‘Zanzibar, circa 1996’ in The Passport That Does Not Pass Ports African Literature of Travel in the Twenty-First Century. The collection is co-edited by Isabel Balseiro and Zachariah Rapola.
September 8, 2020

Radical Disenchantment

A CHR Webinar held jointly between Winter School and the Other Universals Consortium with Fadi Bardawil
September 5, 2020

Leaving Zion

A Winter School webinar with Associate Professor Heidi Grunebaum