Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
The Centre for Humanities Research welcomed puppetry practitioners and researchers in kinetic objects and object theatre for the first major international puppetry and kinetic objects conference hosted at the University of the Western Cape....
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Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
The Centre for Humanities Research, in partnership with the Mzansi National Phillharmonic Orchestra, invite you to a preview screening of a concert film of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony....
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Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects.
The CHR is pleased to announce the publication of Puppet and Spirit: Ritual, Religion, and Performing Objects, which includes a chapter by senior lecturer and convenor of the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO), Aja Marneweck, and Handspring Puppet Company co-founder Jill Joubert....
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The Other Universals consortium will be running a 7 week writing workshop, facilitated by Anais Nony for Masters and PhD students working on their thesis. Further details on the poster attached.
The CHR would like to congratulate Lebogang Mokwena and Arnaldo Caliche for being accepted to participate in the Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS), South African Institute for Policy and Research (SAIPAR), writing workshop that will take place in Lusaka from August 15-1.
The CHR encourages the call for papers for the Transience and the image workshop to be convened from th1 19-20 August 2022 at the Centre for Humanities Research.
The CHR Transformative Constitutionalism project invites you to submit a one-page proposal for the upcoming virtual workshop “What human is imagined in the ‘Human Rights’ contained in the South African Constitution.”
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.
On 9 March 2021, the CHR’s Jane Taylor and Aja Marneweck will be participating in the puppetry workshop Animations and Activations with William Ellis (Dept. of Anthropology, UWC) and Marcus Neustetter as part of the Tri-Continental Partnership between the University of Missouri, the University of the Western Cape, and Ghent University.
The African Critical Inquiry Programme invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2021.