Concretions: Ghostly Echoes of the Slave Ship São José
Rabia Omar recently captivated audiences with her paper based on the story of the slave ship São José Paquete d’Africa wrecked just off the shores of Cape Town in December 1794.
AVReQ x VCD Collaborative Workshop Series
The AVReQ x VCD was a collaborative flagship workshop series for the third year Visual Communication Design students in the Visual Arts Department at SU. The VCD course, coordinated by Karolien Perold-Bull, is based [...]
With(Out) the Silver Spoon: Collaborative Making as Liberatory Memory Work for Coloured Communities
Presenter: Mishkah Abrahams In this presentation Mishkah Abrahams will reflect on how the spoon acts as “vibrant matter” for thinking through the entanglement of food and its attendant rituals as vectors of identity and memory. [...]
Masterclass | zethu Matebeni in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
In this episode, Rabia Abba Omar is in conversation with Prof zethu Matebeni about her research on African queer studies, professional trajectory, and scholarly, personal and political journey. Prof Matebeni reflected on her own [...]
Masterclass with Zethu Matebeni
Date: Thursday 1 September 2022 Time: 12:30 PM – 14:00 PM MASTERCLASS WITH ZETHU MATEBENI | The purpose of the masterclass sessions is to empower young researchers/academics and provide a unique opportunity to engage [...]
Book Launch: Queer Activism in South African Education – Dennis Francis
Date: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 For the inaugural launch in our Book Launch Series, AVReQ was honoured to host Professor Dennis Francis. For this momentous occasion, Professor zethu Matebeni (UFH) was in conversation with [...]
Legacies of Violence and Trauma’s Repair
in the Global South Conference
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 [...]
Book Launch: Writing and Reading to Survive – Juliana Claassens
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 [...]
Book Launch: Black and Female – Tsitsi Dangarembga
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, [...]
Book Launch: Truth and Repair – Judith L. Herman
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 [...]