Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela,...
The CHR was visited by the Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti Manamela, in March 2024. The post Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology, Buti...
View ArticleNew Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship...
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...
View ArticleLuyanda Nogodlwana wins Best Puppetry Design at the 59th Fleur Du Cap Theatre...
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. The post...
View ArticleAgainst the Colonial Partition of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’: Mahmoud Darwish, Elias...
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar presented in partnership with the Consortium for Humanities Centres and...
View ArticleMine Mine Mine:
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Uhuru Phalafala in conversation with Dr Lwando Scott. The post...
View ArticleFilm screening: ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ by Adam Low
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair and the Documentary Film Programme of the CHR, will be screening 'Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ (88 minutes, Ireland, 2019) by Adam Low...
View ArticleSound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin.
Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin, will open on Fri 26 April at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. The post Sound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin. appeared first on The Centre for...
View ArticleMuseum Fellowship Programme: Zeitz Mocaa and University of the Western Cape
The University of the Western Cape (UWC) and the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) are pleased to announce an open call for a year-long museum fellowship programme, developed to...
View ArticleWorkshop: What is the University?
Between the 12th and the 18th of March CHR faculty and colleagues from the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Culture and Society met for a ten-day workshop on the question: What is the...
View ArticleThe Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Annual Conference: 12-14 May
The Centre for Humanities Research and its Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair are delighted to partner with and host portions of the Global Brain Health Institute’s (GBHI) Annual Conference in Cape Town....
View ArticleConsortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting: …At Risk
From May 28-June 1, 2024, the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host the CHCI’s Annual Meeting. On 30 May, the CHR’s Professor Maurits van Bever Donker will chair a discussion on...
View ArticleLwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida appointed as Senior Researchers at...
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida as Senior Researchers at the Centre for Humanities Research. The post Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de...
View ArticleEconomic Sovereignty in South Africa, African Economic History
We are pleased to announce the publication of an African Economic History special issue on: Economic Sovereignty in South Africa. Edited by Ndumiso Dladla and Anjuli Webster, and featuring CHR research...
View Article‘The Return’ to premiere at Encounters Film Festival.
We are delighted to announce that The Return will premiere at Encounters Film Festival on 22 June in Cape Town (Labia) and on 30 June in Johannesburg (The Zone, Rosebank). The post ‘The Return’ to...
View ArticleCall for Papers: Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep time,...
Abstracts are invited for participation in the annual workshop in Visual History & Theory to be held at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape, on 19-20 September 2024....
View ArticleEncounters Iliso Lethu African Documentary Symposium
The inaugural Encounters Iliso Lethu African Documentary Symposium, will take place over two days from 20 — 21 June 2024 at the CHR, in partnership with the Centre for Film and Media Studies, the...
View ArticleSound Art Exhibition (27 April – 19 May): Oscillations – Cape Town to Berlin...
Critical listening is the first step toward an ethics and aesthetics of care and freedom. Discarding listening habits and accepting new sound qualities afford access to other layers of history and...
View ArticleHemispheric Headspace workshop
To explore the concept of partition in the context of AI and the humanities, and with an eye towards potential cross-national collaboration on developing research and curriculum, Dr Valmont Layne...
View ArticleImperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session seminar series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati in conversation with Candice Jansen...
View Article2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in African University Museums. The post 2025...
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