Centre for Humanities Research

Please join us for the next Humanities in Session: Conversations, Thoughts, Experiments seminar, on Thursday 9 April. This session is titled, ‘Queerness, Blackness and the Postcolony’ and will be led by Lwando Scott.

We are pleased to announce the opening of Facts and Fabulations at the Iyatsiba Lab on Thursday 9 April. For more info : Link on Bio

Premesh Lalu will be delivering a lecture, ‘Art effects: sensory education in uncertain times’, at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) on Tuesday 31 March 2026, as part of the Ties That Bind Us series and the Pauwels Academy of Critical Thinking.

Join us for Colin Murphy's 'The Invasion of Melos: A Reimagining of Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue' on Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 2:00 PM at Iyatsiba Lab. Hosted by The Performing Arts Collective, with a chat featuring Colin Murphy as part of the Charlotte Maxeke - Mary Robinson

On Wednesday, 11 March, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS) and the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg will co-host a discussion titled Johannesburg as Imaginarium: Public Art and Placemaking in the City. The panel brings together researcher and writer Kim Gurney (CHR)

Join us for Humanities in Session: Artists Forum with Themba Tsotsi on Thursday, March 12, 2026. The session will discuss Tsotsi's book, "Arts Movements and the Discourse of Acknowledgements and Distinctions." More info: link on bio

Former CHR fellow, Wilton Schereka, will be giving a lecture, titled 'Sound, Spirit, Struggle: Du Bois and South Africa', at the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst, where he is currently a graduate fellow. Please follow the link for further details libcal.library.umass.edu/event/16245877

REMINDER !!! REMINDER !!! REMINDER !!! Please join us on Tuesday 24 February for an APES+ talk titled, 'Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over', by Premesh Lalu Time: 17:30 pm – 20:00pm Venue: Iyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/iyatsiba-lab-a…

Sstephen Davis will give a public lecture on his Bitter Aloe project on Thursday, February 26th at the Sarah Fine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, and online at Iyatsiba Lab. This is part of New Archival Visions at the CHR. Date: Thursday, February 26th Time: 7:30 pm

Dear fellows, colleagues and friends, Please join us for the first Humanities in Session: Conversations, thoughts, experiments seminar of the year, taking place on Thursday 26 February at Iyatsiba Lab. For more infomation and RSVP: chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/the-global-sil…

The Klopse/Minstrel Tradition as intangible cultural heritage', hosted by the Salt River Heritage Society, and featuring the CHR's Valmont Layne. Photos by Muneeb Bassier.

Please join us on Thursday 26 February for an APES+ talk titled, 'Iyatsiba Lab: a hub for creative cross-over', by Premesh Lalu Time: 17:30 pm – 20:00pm Venue: Iyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock (enter via Regents St) chrflagship.uwc.ac.za/iyatsiba-lab-a…

African Critical Inquiry Programme (ACIP): Call for workshop proposals and for Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Award Applications, 2026. We are pleased to announce the 2026 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards to support African doctoral students in the humanities

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

Join us on 14 December 2025 for the Barrydale annual giant puppet parade and performance at BFO Primary School, Tinley Street. "Steek My Weg" is a public puppetry parade in Barrydale, part of a collaboration between Net Vir Pret and the Centre for Humanities Research at the UWC

Join us on 14 Nov 2025 at the Akademie der Künste for 'Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson'. Delve into the Robesons' legacy of linking anti-racist and anti-colonial movements worldwide. Explore art engaging with these themes. #ArtExhibition

Join us for a screening of "Milisuthando" on Friday, 28 November, hosted by CHR and Encounters as part of the ENGAGE/REFLECT/CREATE series. Details: - Date: Friday, 28 November - Venue: Iyatsiba Lab, 66 Greatmore St, Woodstock - Time: 6:00pm For more info link on bio:

Women and Gender Studies Department 30th Anniversary Events: Join us at Iyatsiba Lab on 24 and 25 November for celebrations in partnership with the Human Rights Festival. More details attached. RSVP: cdaweti@uwc.ac.za

Last night, 'Tales of History Retold' launched at Iyatsiba Lab. Curated by Kim Gurney and Carlyn Strydom, this exhibition invited 8 artists to select artefacts from the document archive of the AVA, as source material for an artistic response. It will be running until 28 November.