Prof Joel Modiri delivers the 7th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture
A powerful and sobering lecture by legal scholar and public intellectual Prof Joel Modiri, who headlined 7th Stellenbosch University's Annual Africa Day Lecture.
Uncovering / Recovering the Past: An Intimate Reckoning with Truth through Law and Art
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 [...]
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation – Prof Neil Roos
With calm conviction and rich narrative texture, Professor Neil Roos took his audience through a layered excavation of white complicity in apartheid South Africa, drawing from his recent book Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: [...]
Magical States and Latent Ghosts: Accountability for Apartheid-Era Crime In South Africa
In an in-house session that weaved scholarship, forensic inquiry, and human experience, Dr Robyn Gill-Leslie invited us to step into what she called the “liminal spaces” of South Africa’s unfinished reckoning with apartheid-era crimes. [...]
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.
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 [...]
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, [...]