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, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]