UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities: Postdoctoral Fellowships.
photo credit: Ajay Lalu
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for postdoctoral awards in 2025 convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities. In this round, the CHR will make two fellowship awards.
Application Deadline: 17 February 2025
Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR and its partner institutions in understanding how a new phase in the co-evolution of the human and technology rescripts the meaning of aesthetics, race, ecology, and labour as traditional concerns of humanistic study.
The position provides for a year-long residential fellowship at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab, a dedicated humanities facility of the University of the Western Cape in Woodstock, Cape Town. The lab offers a supportive environment for focused study and collaborative research with sound, film, and kinaesthetic arts, and humanistic and social science researchers in the CHR. It hosts an expansive network of local and international researchers working on topics related to the social, political, aesthetic, and subjective consequences of the expansion in technological objects. The postdoctoral awards are conceived to enable recently graduated doctoral students to enter the space of digital humanities with a view of developing expertise in the field while shaping an inquiry across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
