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A powerful and intellectually provocative lecture by historian, writer and public intellectual Dr Panashe Chigumadzi headlined Stellenbosch University’s 8th Annual Africa Day Lecture on 27 May 2026. Hosted at the Stellenbosch University Museum, the [...]
Author: Ella Hodge - Masters Fellow at AVReQ At the beginning of January, Renee Good was murdered by ICE agents in Minnesota. The next day, footage from a TikTok livestream went viral. Also in [...]
On January 22, the partnership between AVReQ and the Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution was formalised with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement establishes a strategic international partnership [...]
In opening the conversation, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela located the event within a longer history of struggle, solidarity and intellectual activism. Reflecting on her shared past with Professor Tamara Shefer as members of “psychologists against [...]
AVReQ proudly celebrates Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth, who has been recognised among the Top 7 Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the 2025 Research and Innovation Excellence Awards, an event that honours academic brilliance, innovation, and social [...]
AVReQ recently had the honour of hosting Stellenbosch University’s new Rector and Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Deresh Ramjugernath, for a visit that brought together shared visions for research excellence, societal impact, and global collaboration. During the [...]
By Desmond Thompson When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it sparked outrage over how racial bias can persist in academic research [...]
The Australian leg of Dr Akuch Anyieth’s international book tour for Decolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities unfolded as both an intellectual and deeply personal journey. Throughout October, leading Australian universities [...]
Hosted by AVReQ’s Zandile Dywati and Cameron Farrar (Syracuse University), the Borders and Black Bodies: The ‘Placelessness’ of Blackness webinar brought together emerging scholars to engage the psychic, spatial and existential dislocations that define [...]
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted a two-day postgraduate colloquium themed “Post'-Violence Subjectivities in the Global South", bringing together students and researchers from four institutions – SU, the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University [...]
