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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 [...]
By Desmond Thompson The struggle for justice takes many forms. For some, it unfolds in the contested corridors of international law; for others, in quiet defiance in kitchens and mosques. At Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Centre [...]
By Desmond Thompson Women’s Month is usually a time to reflect on South Africa’s progress in addressing gender issues, and on how much remains to be done. But now, as the country turns to celebrating [...]
By Desmond Thompson Policing in South Africa is under intense scrutiny. In July, KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi accused national Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of shielding criminal networks and shutting down sensitive investigations. In response, [...]
The seminar German Colonial Violence in Central Tanzania: Engaging the Afterlives of History formed part of AVReQ’s Bearing Witness series, interrogating practices of memory, museology, and the ethics of bearing witness. Facilitated by Dr [...]
AVReQs recently hosted Dr Katrin Antweiler as part of the Bearing Witness seminar series. Dr Antweiler is a German scholar whose research examines Holocaust memorialisation and its intersections with human rights discourse. The event, [...]
The 2025 edition of the Violent Histories and Repair course, hosted at Stellenbosch University as part of the annual Summer School programme, was once again a great success. Coordinated by Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and [...]
In June, AVReQ Post-Doctoral fellow Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan participated as a delegate in the ‘Global Cultural Assembly’, hosted by the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. The week long gathering brought together scholars, activists, artists, [...]
As South Sudan continues to grapple with sexual and gender-based violence, which remains one of the most pressing scourges in society, legal scholar Dr Akuch Kuol emphasises the need for comprehensive interventions that go beyond legal reforms. [...]
