Desire at the End of the White Line
In a deeply moving and intellectually rigorous talk, Dr Azille Coetzee brought to life the core questions of her recent work, Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of [...]
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.
Bearing Witness to Atrocities: A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose
This conversation examines the ethical and psychological dimensions of bearing witness to atrocity, featuring Professor Jacqueline Rose and Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Through insights grounded in psychoanalysis, history and ethics, the discussion interrogates the meanings [...]
Why do People Kill and Die for Religion? With Prof John Brewer
Professor John Brewer explores the powerful and paradoxical question: Why do people kill and die for religion? The conversation confronts the ways in which monotheistic religions have been entangled with violence throughout history. Brewer offers [...]
Why Do People Kill and Die for Religion?
Drawing on his recently published book, Monotheism and Peacebuilding, Prof John Brewer engaged with the complex interplay between faith, violence, and human behaviour reflecting on “why do people kill and die for religion.” Facilitated [...]
Reflections ‘Bearing Witness to Atrocities’
Author: Sophia Olivia Sanan Post-Doctoral Fellow at AVReQ In mid-February 2025 AVReQ hosted renowned scholar Professor Jacqueline Rose, author of numerous seminal texts on feminism, sexuality, psychoanalysis and violence, for a public conversation with AVReQ [...]
Inscribing Citizenship onto the White Body
Dr Anell Stacey Daries delivered a provocative lecture on the intersections of physical education, nationalism, and the body, focusing on the role of the Physical Training Battalion in shaping ideals of citizenship in mid-twentieth-century [...]
What Would Hannah Arendt Have Said? A Conversation on Thought, Ethics, and Repair
We had the honour of hosting Professor Jacqueline Rose and welcoming Professor Vasti Roodt, the newly appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to a conversation that wrestled with the emotional, [...]
Bearing Witness to Atrocities: A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose
In a time of relentless violence, what does it mean to bear witness? This was the central question explored in a compelling conversation between Prof Jacqueline Rose and Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Their discussion, rooted [...]