AVReQ 2023 Orientation Week
AVReQ hosted its 2023 Orientation Week from 6 to 10 February to welcome new Masters students and post-doctoral candidates to the centre. As part of our welcome week, a series of engaging sessions and [...]
Welcome to AVReQ Professor Azrini Wahidin
Professor Azrini Wahidin from the University of Warwick, Department of Sociology, is currently being hosted by the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ). She is the author [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Tera: Song, Dance, and Performance in Rwandan Impunzi Cultural Groups
On 24 March 2022, AVReQ master’s student, Gratia Ilibagiza, presented her research proposal design (i.e., critical research questions, literature review, theoretical framework, method, and ethics) to both the Department of Social Anthropology and the AVReQ [...]
AVReQ Launch
Launch of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) Date: 15 & 16 February 2022 The hybrid event was be moderated by Prof Tamar Garb (University College [...]
Your Greatness will be Enhanced
Your Greatness will be Enhanced – Much More than Courageous and Hopeful Speeches Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela This past week of remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s life, the breaking of each day began with a mournful stillness. Something [...]
Masters’ Fellows Presentation Day
On 3 November 2021, the AVReQ Masters students presented their work in a virtual colloquium. The event provided students at different stages of their research with the opportunity to share their work with peers and [...]
Prof. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela has been named the 2020/2021 Walter Jackson Bate Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute for Advanced Study
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s 2020-2021 cohort, was announced on the 22nd of May 2020, including 42 fellows representing six countries. The acceptance rate for the incoming class was 2.8 percent, from a pool [...]