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Humanities in Session: Artists Forum with Themba Tsotsi - The Centre for Humanities Research
Humanities in Session: Artists Forum with Themba Tsotsi - The Centre for Humanities Research
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
Bitter Aloe: Using Machine Learning to reframe Human Rights research in South Africa. - The Centre for Humanities Research
Bitter Aloe: Using Machine Learning to reframe Human Rights research in South Africa. - The Centre for Humanities Research
Prof. Stephen Davis will be giving a public lecture on Thursday, February 26th on his ongoing Bitter Aloe project.
The Global Silencing of Racism: A book discussion on Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power - The Centre for Humanities Research
The Global Silencing of Racism: A book discussion on Colorblind Tools: Global Technologies of Racial Power - The Centre for Humanities Research
A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar.
Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over, A talk by Premesh Lalu. - The Centre for Humanities Research
Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over, A talk by Premesh Lalu. - The Centre for Humanities Research
You are invited to attend an APES+ talk titled “Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over”, by Premesh Lalu.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications, 2026 - The Centre for Humanities Research
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications, 2026 - The Centre for Humanities Research
The African Critical Inquiry Programme is pleased to announce the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences and invites proposals from scholars and/or practitioners in public cultural institutions in South Africa to organise a workshop to take place in 2027. ACIP is a partnership between the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape and the Laney Graduate School of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA).
Barrydale 2025: Steek my Weg - The Centre for Humanities Research
Barrydale 2025: Steek my Weg - The Centre for Humanities Research
Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson - The Centre for Humanities Research
Exhibition Announcement: Every Artist Must Take Sides - Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson - The Centre for Humanities Research
Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO - The Centre for Humanities Research
Film Screening: MILISUTHANDO - The Centre for Humanities Research
Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom - The Centre for Humanities Research
Winter School 7-11 July 2025: On the question of Freedom - The Centre for Humanities Research
In anticipation of the arrival of Fanon, Lorde, McGregor and several other truth-seekers, the Iyatsiba Lab, alive to its meaning “to jump”, called attention to the CHR’s 15th iteration of the annual Winter School titled Freedom, Techne/Technics, Postcoloniality. Accompanied by trusted companions, the Reading List, the Place/People, Concept and Programme, Winter School held interdisciplinary space for what it means to think and make in relation(s) at the edge of time.
Troubling the divide: Jazz, History and the new African - The Centre for Humanities Research
Troubling the divide: Jazz, History and the new African - The Centre for Humanities Research
An interview with Lindelwa Dalamba
Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making - The Centre for Humanities Research
Zine-making workshop: Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making - The Centre for Humanities Research
‘Something like an archive - Exploring memory through zine-making’ is a one day public workshop at Iyatsiba Lab facilitated by visual artist and educator, Scott Eric Williams.
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold - The Centre for Humanities Research
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold - The Centre for Humanities Research
Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere - The Centre for Humanities Research
Artists’s Forum with Kemang Wa Lehulere - The Centre for Humanities Research
ISAM200 Conference | SAVE the DATE Announcement – Iziko Museums
ISAM200 Conference | SAVE the DATE Announcement – Iziko Museums
Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement - The Centre for Humanities Research
Together Apart The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement - The Centre for Humanities Research
In April 1964, the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement (IAAM) was launched in Dublin by Kader Asmal, a South-African professor of law in Trinity College. Lobbying for improved human rights and liberation in South Africa, the Movement raised awareness of the racism experienced by communities and campaigned for the release of political prisoners.
An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness - The Centre for Humanities Research
An Archive and Forms of Sight: Gestures of Madness - The Centre for Humanities Research
The workshop will examine 20th century periodicals and related print ephemera – including newspapers, cultural and literary journals, magazines, manifestoes, newsletters and political pamphlets – as sites of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production throughout decolonization, anti-Apartheid struggles, and the post-colonial era.
In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile - The Centre for Humanities Research
In Black Women’s Hands: A History of Gestures in Photography and Textile - The Centre for Humanities Research
Dublin Short: A Little Approach to Big History - The Centre for Humanities Research
Dublin Short: A Little Approach to Big History - The Centre for Humanities Research
Join us for a screening of Dublin Short a short documentary capturing the magic of the Little Museum of Dublin's famous guided tour. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Dr Daryl Hendley Rooney, deputy curator at the Little Museum and visiting researcher on the Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair.
Artists Forum: ASH: Art-Science-Humanities Research - The Centre for Humanities Research
Artists Forum: ASH: Art-Science-Humanities Research - The Centre for Humanities Research
The Artists Forum, convened at the Centre for Humanities Research, emerges out a longstanding conversation between artists and academics working in and through the CHR.
Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice - The Centre for Humanities Research
Lessons from Rwanda 30 Years after Genocide: Reflections on Mnemossiduous Practice - The Centre for Humanities Research
Lauren van der Rede is currently a Lecturer in the Department of English at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is the PI of the Perforated Memory research project.
Forthcoming events at the CHR - The Centre for Humanities Research
Forthcoming events at the CHR - The Centre for Humanities Research
New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025 - The Centre for Humanities Research
New Archival Visions at UWC Research Grants and Fellowships (2025/6): Deadline 26 September 2025 - The Centre for Humanities Research
Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy - The Centre for Humanities Research
Film Screening: Albie: A Strange Alchemy - The Centre for Humanities Research
UWC Partnership Explores The World Through The... | UWC
UWC Partnership Explores The World Through The... | UWC
Research and Activisim: Ruth First & Activist Research
Research and Activisim: Ruth First & Activist Research
Holding a Thought – The puppetry of Ukwanda
Holding a Thought – The puppetry of Ukwanda
Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.
Exhibition opening: And I, a newly evolved fish.
Encounters Documentary Film Festival highlights: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars
Encounters Documentary Film Festival highlights: The Walk and The Shadow Scholars
DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
DSTI-NRF Call for Application Endorsements: UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities and NRF SARChI Chair in Visual History and Theory.
In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
In Defence of the Ontological Category of Ubuqaba
Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
Artists Forum with Fatima Dike
Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama
Tectonic: TOMBWA – A solo performance by Victor Gama
‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
‘Slave Heritage & Cape Music’, with Valmont Layne.
Africa, Philosophy and the Image
Africa, Philosophy and the Image
Waterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond
Waterlogged hauntings of the Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and beyond
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
Herd of life-sized animal puppets to travel through Central Africa to Norway
Herd of life-sized animal puppets to travel through Central Africa to Norway
Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.
Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.
Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon
Waystations of Desire: From Infrastructural Critique to Anticolonial Praxis, by Nancy Luxon
Freedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the Making of Worlds
Freedom after Partition: Palestine, South Africa and the Making of Worlds
Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.
Public Lecture and seminar series by Erich Hörl.
Film screening: James Joyce’s Ulysses by Adam Low
Film screening: James Joyce’s Ulysses by Adam Low
Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.
Texturing Difference: “Black Consciousness Philosophy”and the “Script of Man”, by Maurits van Bever Donker.
Call for Proposals: “Every Artist Must Take Sides − Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson”
Call for Proposals: “Every Artist Must Take Sides − Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson”
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings 20-24 December 2024
Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
Film Screening: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings
On the couch: Puppeteers gather in Cape Town for first international conference - Lunch with Pippa Hudson
On the couch: Puppeteers gather in Cape Town for first international conference - Lunch with Pippa Hudson
Pro-Vocation Roots and Wings - An International Exchange on Puppetry Arts in Africa – Unima - Union Internationale de la Marionnette
Pro-Vocation Roots and Wings - An International Exchange on Puppetry Arts in Africa – Unima - Union Internationale de la Marionnette
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, Puppetry for all ages at the Theatre Arts
Pro-Vocation: Roots and Wings, Puppetry for all ages at the Theatre Arts
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
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New Archival Visions - The Centre for Humanities Research
New Archival Visions - The Centre for Humanities Research
Documentary film screening and Roundtable discussion: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Documentary film screening and Roundtable discussion: Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Art Collective: Bridging Arts, Academia, and Social Change
Ukwanda Puppets and Designs Art Collective: Bridging Arts, Academia, and Social Change
What does apartheid mean for Israel: Reflections in a time of genocide
What does apartheid mean for Israel: Reflections in a time of genocide
Film Screening: The Quiet Girl by Colm Bairéad
Film Screening: The Quiet Girl by Colm Bairéad
Public Arts Museums and their futures
Public Arts Museums and their futures
Journal Launch: God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, Kronos, No.50, 2024.
Journal Launch: God, Grievance and Greed: War in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, Kronos, No.50, 2024.
Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep Time, Shallow Time
Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep Time, Shallow Time
Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.
Award Announcement: Oscillations wins Research and Innovation award at UWC.
Aesthetic Education: Puppetry, Cinema and Sound | National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)
Aesthetic Education: Puppetry, Cinema and Sound | National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)
Between Poetry and Biography: Ruth Mompati, Charlotte Maxeke and intellectual histories of liberation
Between Poetry and Biography: Ruth Mompati, Charlotte Maxeke and intellectual histories of liberation
Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.
Mandela & MK: Situating South African History within the Black Radical Tradition.
The Herd: The CHR’s Ukwanda joins a global project on climate change
The Herd: The CHR’s Ukwanda joins a global project on climate change
Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.
Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.
2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names
2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names
Imperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.
Imperfect Solidarities: On Collecting and History Telling in Nepal.
Encounters Iliso Lethu African Documentary Symposium
Encounters Iliso Lethu African Documentary Symposium
Call for Papers: Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep time, shallow time.
Call for Papers: Visual History and Theory International Workshop: Deep time, shallow time.
‘The Return’ to premiere at Encounters Film Festival.
‘The Return’ to premiere at Encounters Film Festival.
Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida appointed as Senior Researchers at the CHR.
Lwando Scott and Fernanda Pinto de Almeida appointed as Senior Researchers at the CHR.
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting: …At Risk
Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) annual meeting: …At Risk
Undoing Apartheid – seminar
Undoing Apartheid – seminar
Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. - Webshop
Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. - Webshop
The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Annual Conference: 12-14 May
The Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) Annual Conference: 12-14 May
Mine Mine Mine: Uhuru Phalafala, 25 April 2024
Mine Mine Mine: Uhuru Phalafala, 25 April 2024
Klangkunst aus dem südlichen Afrika: „Oscillations“ (1/4)
Klangkunst aus dem südlichen Afrika: „Oscillations“ (1/4)
Museum Fellowship Programme: Zeitz Mocaa and University of the Western Cape
Museum Fellowship Programme: Zeitz Mocaa and University of the Western Cape
Oscillations. Cape Town – BerlinSonic Inquiries and Practices
Oscillations. Cape Town – BerlinSonic Inquiries and Practices
Sound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin.
Sound Art exhibition: Oscillations, Cape Town – Berlin.
Against the Colonial Partition of 'self' and 'other' Muhannad Ayyash
Against the Colonial Partition of 'self' and 'other' Muhannad Ayyash
New Ecologies of the Subject inaugural lecture: Erich Hörl (Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies)
New Ecologies of the Subject inaugural lecture: Erich Hörl (Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies)
Film screening: ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ by Adam Low
Film screening: ‘Seamus Heaney and the music of what happens’ by Adam Low
Mine Mine Mine:
Mine Mine Mine:
News - The Centre for Humanities Research
News - The Centre for Humanities Research
New Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship applications
New Archival Visions (NAV): Curatorial Fellowship and Postdoctoral Fellowship applications
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”
MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”
Inaugural Seminar for the New Ecologies of the Subject research platform
Inaugural Seminar for the New Ecologies of the Subject research platform
Flipside: The inadvertent Archive, by Kim Gurney
Flipside: The inadvertent Archive, by Kim Gurney
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
Justice and Sacrifice in the myths of Iphigenia, Antigone, and Medea
Justice and Sacrifice in the myths of Iphigenia, Antigone, and Medea
Herd of puppets to trek 20,000km to highlight urgency of climate crisis
Herd of puppets to trek 20,000km to highlight urgency of climate crisis
Film Screening: The Mother of All Lies, Bertha House, 28 Feb
Film Screening: The Mother of All Lies, Bertha House, 28 Feb
Kronos, Oral/Aural: Pastness and sound as medium and method
Kronos, Oral/Aural: Pastness and sound as medium and method
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
Moving Mountains: The 2023 Barrydale Parade
Moving Mountains: The 2023 Barrydale Parade
CTV teaser
CTV teaser
On Non Western Marxism and Empire
On Non Western Marxism and Empire
Ghent Africa Platform Lecture in Honour of Nelson Mandela, by prof. Premesh Lalu | Africa Platform
Ghent Africa Platform Lecture in Honour of Nelson Mandela, by prof. Premesh Lalu | Africa Platform
In Memory of Jane Taylor
In Memory of Jane Taylor
Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair: Professor Ruth Barton
Maxeke-Robinson Research Chair: Professor Ruth Barton
The Other Universals: 'On Non Western Marxisms'
The Other Universals: 'On Non Western Marxisms'
Winter School 2023: Premesh Lalu, ‘Undoing Apartheid: The Problem of the Problematization of Race’
Winter School 2023: Premesh Lalu, ‘Undoing Apartheid: The Problem of the Problematization of Race’
In Memory of Professor Jane Taylor
In Memory of Professor Jane Taylor
On Non Western Marxisms
On Non Western Marxisms
Gurney - Epistemic Disobedience: Institution-Building as Artistic Practice
Gurney - Epistemic Disobedience: Institution-Building as Artistic Practice
Aja Marneweck - The Net vir Pret Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance: 18 December 2022
Aja Marneweck - The Net vir Pret Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance: 18 December 2022
Aja Marneweck - MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”
Aja Marneweck - MAXEKE: “This work is not for yourselves”
"Interrupting, the Human: Shuffling" | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
"Interrupting, the Human: Shuffling" | Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change
On Vibrational Architecture
On Vibrational Architecture
Queerness and Cape Town - Open Book Festival
Queerness and Cape Town - Open Book Festival
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
Announcement: Oscillations Artists in Residency
Afrika Focus Volume 36 Issue 1 (2023)
Afrika Focus Volume 36 Issue 1 (2023)
Recording: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid
Recording: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid
POWER: REMAKING SELVES, ARCHIVES, ENVIRONMENTS
POWER: REMAKING SELVES, ARCHIVES, ENVIRONMENTS
Inaugural Lecture: The. Charlotte Maxine - Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair
Inaugural Lecture: The. Charlotte Maxine - Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair
Workshop: Black Radical Thought and Neoliberalism, Call for Papers
Workshop: Black Radical Thought and Neoliberalism, Call for Papers
Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation
Pedagogies of Repair: A Collective Conversation
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Post-Doctoral Writing Fellowship
Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa: Post-Doctoral Writing Fellowship
Journal of Southern African Studies SAIPAR workshop announcement
Journal of Southern African Studies SAIPAR workshop announcement
On the Subject of Citizenship
On the Subject of Citizenship
SASRIM Music Production workshop with Shane Cooper
SASRIM Music Production workshop with Shane Cooper
Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Humanities in Session with Dr Ayanda Simayi.
Humanities in Session with Dr Ayanda Simayi.
Roundtable and Book Presentation On the Subject of Citizenship
Roundtable and Book Presentation On the Subject of Citizenship
Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Puppets in Action: Theory, Practice, and Possibilities
Webinar Registration: NMU CWGS Author Fridays
Webinar Registration: NMU CWGS Author Fridays
Patricia Parker visit
Patricia Parker visit
Digital Inequalities in Higher Education: A Kaleidoscope Approach
Digital Inequalities in Higher Education: A Kaleidoscope Approach
play // profanation recognition // education // ideology
play // profanation recognition // education // ideology
Webinar: Epistemic Ethnonationalism - Identity Policing in Neo-Traditionalism and Decoloniality Theory
Webinar: Epistemic Ethnonationalism - Identity Policing in Neo-Traditionalism and Decoloniality Theory
Repair in 'the After': A Conversation
Repair in 'the After': A Conversation
Undoing Apartheid Book Launch
Undoing Apartheid Book Launch
Call for Applications: ICAS:MP Autumn School 2023- ‘Decolonization/Decolonial: Thinking across Disciplines and Geo-Histories’
Call for Applications: ICAS:MP Autumn School 2023- ‘Decolonization/Decolonial: Thinking across Disciplines and Geo-Histories’
OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices
OSCILLATIONS: Sonic Inquiries and Practices
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023
The Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Irish South Africa Research Chair launch, 14 March 2023
Call for Contributions: The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) 2023 Conference
Call for Contributions: The South African Society for Research in Music (SASRIM) 2023 Conference
A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?
A subaltern study of Xhosa-speakers’ epistemic views in postcolonial South Africa: Is menstruation elided in rural Eastern Cape secondary schools?
Undoing Apartheid: Premesh Lalu | Jackman Humanities Institute
Undoing Apartheid: Premesh Lalu | Jackman Humanities Institute
Think from Black: a Lexicon / the Joburg convening — Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class
Think from Black: a Lexicon / the Joburg convening — Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class
Book Launch: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid
Book Launch: Conversation on Undoing Apartheid
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“The Life and Times of Duke, The Zebra” - Barrydale Stream
“The Life and Times of Duke, The Zebra” - Barrydale Stream
The Net vir Pret Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance: 18 December 2022
The Net vir Pret Barrydale Puppet Parade and Performance: 18 December 2022
Mandela and Tragedy, Tutu and the Political Transfiguration of South Africa: New Approaches to Biography
Mandela and Tragedy, Tutu and the Political Transfiguration of South Africa: New Approaches to Biography
AVA board member announcement.
AVA board member announcement.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
ACIP: Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications.
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