Welcome to AVReQ
The Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) is established to fulfil the goals of the South African Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma. It aims to bring conceptual clarity to the concept of violence and its consequences in the lives of victim and survivor groups on the one hand, and perpetrators and their descendants on the other. As an interdisciplinary project, we will take an intersectional approach and engage with the physical and structural aspects of violence, as well as the more insidious and symbolic forms of its expression that manifest in dynamic ways.
Highlights
Prof Joel Modiri delivers the 7th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture
A powerful and sobering lecture by legal scholar and public intellectual Prof Joel Modiri, who headlined 7th Stellenbosch University's Annual Africa Day Lecture.
WE NEED NEW NAMES On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in Southern African University Museums
[Watch] The interdisciplinary workshop ‘WE NEED NEW NAMES On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in Southern African University Museums’ took place at Stellenbosch University in April 2025
Book Launch: Mothers as Everyday Peacebuilders – The Implications of Dr Yumi Omori’s Work
During her book launch, Dr Yumi Omori engaged in compelling discussions about how the everyday practices and reasoning processes of ordinary women contribute to peacebuilding in divided societies.
AVReQ Honoured at SU’s Research Excellence and Innovation Awards
Prof Gobodo-Madikizela and the AVReQ team honoured with the Vice-Chancellor’s and Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Special Recognition Award for 2024.