CHR delegation visit
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....
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Centre for Humanities Research: Celebrating milestones
With the recent launch of the next phase of the CHR’s DSTI-NRF Flagship in the Humanities at its new Greatmore facility, we would like to thank our partners, alumni and academic cohorts for bringing the centre to this next phase of its development....
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Launch of the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab was launched on 30 July 2024 by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Western Cape and the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Blade Nzimande....
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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.
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) is pleased to announce the 2022 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled at South African universities.
The African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2023.
Kinetic Objects is a teaching collaboration emerging from the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute in the framework of the partnership on Aesthetic Education: A South North Dialogue, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
UWC congratulates Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo, a former postdoctoral fellow hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research, on her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
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.
It was with a profound sense of loss that the we learned of the death of Shane Petzer, the Social Responsibility Officer from the Magpie Art Collective.
CHR Artist in Residence Juan Orrantia will present his ongoing artistic work “Everything that was made was not destroyed, but also does not exist” at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities Seminar on 14 September 2021.
The CHR is excited to share the following announcement by the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape as they launch a year-long fellowship programme.
CHR Artist in Residence Tony Bonani Miyambo confronts the momentous challenges facing theatre makers with his solo show Commission Continua, performed online for the 2021 National Arts Festival.