This year our seminar theme was “Legacies of Violence, Social Change and Transformation.” The seminar aimed to explore the interplay of traumatic histories, civic life, social justice and the arts. Invited speakers in the series were drawn from an interdisciplinary group of scholars nationally and internationally.

8 May 2018

Professor, Maurice Apprey, a native of Ghana, is a psychoanalyst, and one of a handful who were trained by Anna Freud at the Hampstead Clinic in London. He is Professor of Psychiatry and the Dean of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia. His standing-room only lecture on Reconfiguring the Legacies of Racialized Trauma was at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (Stias).

2 March 2018

Professor Angela Davis from Washington College of Law, American University,