Ayanda Nyoka, has completed her Masters degree cum laude on the topic “Black Women’s Healing from Trauma: Centering Christian Spirituality in a Story Telling Community Healing Methodology.” Read more about Ayanda’s research here: https://avreq.sun.ac.za/people/ms-ayanda-nyoka/   [...]

The Chair, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, won the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. In the photo below she receives the award from Jonathan Oppenheimer, the Chair of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. The ceremony, which was held at [...]

This event was co-hosted with the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and was organised as a lead to the Harry Oppenheimer Award ceremony for the Chair of AVReQ. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was in conversation with Professors Homi K [...]

Shanthini Naidoo speaks about her book Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (2020). The sacrifices and contributions made by women are rarely acknowledge in the histories of liberation movements, and Naidoo’s work is an [...]

This discussion was organised as part of the series of events to launch our book, Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma, Co-edited by Kim Wale, pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Jeffrey Prager. We were privileged to [...]

This conversation was a reflection on ways in which the students engaged with the stories and the storytellers in the digital exhibition titled The Things that Sit with Us. Dr. Marietjie Oelofsen, a post-doctoral fellow [...]

“African Scholars Thinking with Cathy Caruth” Prof. Cathy Caruth, professor of English literature, Cornell University in conversation with: Dr. Sakiru Adebayo (Assistant professor of English, University of British Columbia), Dr. Thando Njovane, lecturer in the [...]

With Professors Deborah Willis and Tamar Garb Images of black social protest are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. From the medium’s beginning, race and gender have shaped and controlled the production and [...]