August 26, 2024
In August 2024, a CHR delegation met with leadership and Humanities and Social Sciences colleagues at Sol Plaatje University to discuss future collaborations and joint research initiatives.
May 27, 2024
From May 28-June 1, 2024, the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host the CHCI’s Annual Meeting. On 30 May, the CHR’s Professor Maurits van Bever Donker will chair a discussion on ‘Humanities at Risk’.
July 24, 2023
The latest Afrika Focus is now available. Edited by the CHR’s, Maurits van Bever Donker and Lwando Scott, this volume focuses on the question of transformative constitutionalism.
July 10, 2023
The CHR's Maurits van Bever Donker will take part in an expert panel at the University of Oxford on Friday 21 July, 2023 (11:00 – 15:00 BST).
May 9, 2022
The CHR is co-sponsoring a two-part series of conversations on the critical work of humanities centers and humanities administration: “Forming the Humanities: On Care” and “Traversing the Humanities: On Space.” These sessions are open to anyone engaged with the work of directing and administering humanities centers and other spaces.
June 23, 2021
The CHR’s Flagship fellowship programme for early career scholars is at the heart of a deep commitment to transforming higher education at the doctoral level in South Africa.
June 21, 2021
Contributions by Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research to edited volumes represent a diverse engagement with the centre’s academic inquiries. The following list shows publications from the latter years of the centre’s output.
May 31, 2021
Staff and Fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research regularly publish articles and reviews in local and international journals, applying the centre’s intellectual inquiries across a wide range of disciplines and interests.
October 28, 2020
As part of the Communicating the Humanities research project, The CHR Documentary film class was in conversation with award winning journalists and filmmakers, Richard Poplak and Dianna Neile, and producer Neil Brant, about their latest film Influence.
February 10, 2020
The Politics of ‘Rightful Belonging’ in Post-Apartheid South African and Post-Mabo Australian Non-White ‘Settler’ Literatures
February 15, 2018
2017 Special Issue edited by Ross Truscott and Maurits Van Bever Donker