Exploring the Fruitful Relationships Between Text, Puppets, and Objects
Facilitated by Isabelle Matter, Puppeteer-Director and Director of the Théâtre des Marionnettes de Genève. The post Exploring the Fruitful Relationships Between Text, Puppets, and Objects appeared...
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...
View ArticlePro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, Puppetry for all ages at the Theatre Arts
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the...
View ArticlePhysical and Vocal Scores Creation
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC present Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, the 4th iteration of Pro-Vocation, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the...
View ArticlePro-Vocation: Roots and Wings
In November 2024, the Centre for Humanities Research presents Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, in partnership with the UNIMA Professional Training Commission, the UNIMA Africa Commission, and UNIMA SA....
View ArticlePuppet 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...
View ArticleFilm 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. The post Film...
View ArticlePro-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...
View ArticleCall for Proposals: “Every Artist Must Take Sides − Resonances of Eslanda and...
The Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, are organizing a joint residency program for artistic research at the...
View ArticleMinister De Lille joins Net Vir Pret and the CHR at Barrydale’s annual...
The CHR was delighted to host Minister De Lille, at the annual Reconciliation Day Festival in Barrydale. The post Minister De Lille joins Net Vir Pret and the CHR at Barrydale’s annual Reconciliation...
View ArticleProfessor Premesh Lalu Awarded UK-SA Bilateral Research Chair in Digital...
The CHR is delighted to announce that Professor Premesh Lalu has been awarded the British Academy/NRF UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities. The post Professor Premesh Lalu Awarded UK-SA...
View ArticleErich Hörl appointed as Extraordinary Professor at the CHR.
The CHR is delighted to announce that Erich Hörl has been appointed as extraordinary professor at the CHR, strengthening our partnership with the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in...
View ArticleTexturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of...
Maurits van Bever Donker’s Texturing Difference “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, was published with Polity Press in December 2024. The post Texturing Difference: “Black...
View ArticleUK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities: Postdoctoral Fellowships.
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...
View ArticleCape 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...
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