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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 [...]
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 [...]
Dr Allely Albert from Queen’s University Belfast introduced us to the layered complexities of ex-prisoner leadership in restorative justice in Northern Ireland. Her work focuses on the Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI) organisation, where [...]
In June, AVReQ hosted a meaningful exchange with representatives of the European Wasatia Graduate School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based at Europa University Flensburg. The meeting, held in Stellenbosch, marks the beginning of [...]
Professor Susanne Klausen’s lecture, “Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’,” was a powerful examination of apartheid’s moral panic over interracial intimacy and the state’s brutal attempts to manage white masculinity in service of [...]
A powerful and sobering lecture by legal scholar and public intellectual Prof Joel Modiri, who headlined 7th Stellenbosch University's Annual Africa Day Lecture.
On a rainy afternoon in Stellenbosch, members of the academic community gathered at the University Museum for a special event. Uncovering / Recovering the Past was not only a presentation of art or legal [...]
