March 25, 2024
It is with great pleasure that we announce Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective member, Luyanda Nogodlwane’s, award for Best Puppetry Design at the 59th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.
March 20, 2024
Through the generous support of the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), the Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) offers a range of research grants and fellowships in 2022-2025 to support new research activity in the UWC archives.
March 15, 2024
The CHR was visited by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela, in March 2024.
March 13, 2024
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
March 8, 2024
This event is scheduled to take place at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art on March 13, 2024, as part of the Embassy’s St. Patrick’s Day programme.
February 26, 2024
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
February 19, 2024
The CHR and DFA DocLOVE invite you to a free screening of award-winning Moroccan documentary, The Mother of All Lies.
February 16, 2024
We are pleased to announce the publication of Kronos: Southern African Histories under the theme of Oral/Aural: Pastness and Sound as Medium and Method, edited by Dr Valmont Layne, CHR, and Dr Aidan Erasmus, Department of Historical Studies, UWC.
February 16, 2024
Through the years the annual parade and performance in Barrydale has brought together artists, scholars, researchers and publics not only from across Barrydale and Cape Town, but nationally and internationally as well.
February 2, 2024
The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel is undertaking a mission to South Africa from 29 January until 9 February.
December 12, 2023
The CHR’s Fernanda Pinto de Almeida presented a paper at the Writing a Decentred and Entangled History of Cinema-Going conference in November.
November 29, 2023
Come move mountains at the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance, Saturday 16 December 2023 at the Barrydale Sports Ground Dahlia Avenue Barrydale.