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Call for conference abstracts Deadline for Submissions: September 30, 2022 A Conference hosted by the Centre for the Study of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) December 7-9, 2022 (Cape Town, South Africa) The conference [...]
Aesthetics of Memory will engage an interdisciplinary lens to explore the intersection of the politics of memory and the arts in the context of ongoing debates about histories of repression and violence, and more specifically the traumatic pasts of the Soviet Gulags and apartheid.
Writing and Reading to Survive - Biblical and contemporary trauma narratives in conversation Writing and Reading to Survive brings a number of trauma narratives from the Hebrew Bible into conversation with contemporary trauma narratives, exploring [...]
Black and Female This paradigm shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of internationally acclaimed novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga's complex relationship with race and gender. At once philosophical, intimate and urgent, [...]
Coming in early 2023, the South African Launch of new book by Judith Herman: Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice I am excited to share this photo with Judith Herman, pioneering scholar in [...]
Undoing Apartheid Post-apartheid South Africa still struggles to overcome the past, not just because the material conditions of apartheid linger but because the intellectual conditions it created have not been thoroughly dismantled. The system [...]
Advanced Introduction to the Sociology of Peace Processes This Advanced Introduction establishes the study of peace processes as part of the mainstream of sociology, a position consistent with the new moral re-enchantment of the [...]
AVReQ has established a new collaboration with the University of Fort Hare’s Goven Mbeki Research and Development Centre on their staff exchange programme for early career academics. The initiative is a research capacity development programme [...]
Professor Wyngaards presented his argument for this lecture in three parts. First, he explored one thread of how whiteness is constructed theologically. Secondly, he expanded on his own use of the language of repair [...]
Dr Chidi Chike Achebe delivered the 4th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture on the 31st of May 2022. It was hosted by the Vice Chancellor as a hybrid event held at Stellenbosch University Museum. [...]
