Cape Town Jazz Train with Paul Hanmer
Trains toTaung has recently been remastered and released as a double vinyl with additional tracks composed and performed by the legendary Cape Town born pianist, Paul Hanmer. The post Cape Town Jazz...
View ArticleUK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities: Honours, Masters and...
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for Honours, Masters and Doctoral awards in 2025, convened under the auspices of the UK-SA...
View ArticleFilm screening: James Joyce’s Ulysses by Adam Low
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening James Joyce's ULYSSES (88 minutes, UK, 2022) by Adam Low on Thursday 27 February...
View ArticleTexturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of...
The book launch for Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker, will take place at the Iyatsiba Lab on Friday 14 March. The post...
View ArticleFreedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the Making of Worlds
Hosted by The Department of Women and Gender Studies and the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape (UWC) The post Freedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the...
View ArticlePublic Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.
CHR Extraordinary Professor, Erich Hörl, will be giving a series of seminars and a public lecture in March at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab. The post Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl. appeared...
View ArticleCHCI Advisory Board Member announcement.
We are pleased to announce that Maurits van Bever Donker has been appointed to serve on the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). The post CHCI Advisory Board...
View ArticleWaystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis,...
Modernity finds itself in a dissociated state, that is, unable to attach its social energies and political desires to a political vision that resonates and coheres. The post Waystations of Desire: From...
View Article‘Unseating Mastery: The University and the Promise of the New’, by Premesh...
This conversation between Erich Hörl and Premesh Lalu draws on their extended conversation on efforts to link discordant temporal and spatial encounters with the idea of the university and how, more...
View Article‘Sensory Experiments, Sensory Orders, and Aesthetic Education’, by Premesh Lalu.
Erica Fretwell's Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling (2020) raises crucial questions about the making of a concept of difference through marshaling the senses to the...
View ArticleWaterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond
The Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre of Excellence for Black Planetary Studies, Institute for Social and Health Sciences, UNISA, invite you. The post...
View ArticleACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award...
The CHR is pleased to announce that applications for the 2026 African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP) workshop and Doctoral Research awards for 2025 are now open. The post ACIP: Call for workshop...
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