We speak about “race” and “masculinity” as if they bestow fixed identities on subjects. Yet, in everyday encounters these categories are negotiated, resisted, imposed, and resolved in complex and often unsettling ways. How are experiences of belonging, exclusion, and vulnerability shaped by/in these encounters? This event opens a conversation on the question of the lived experience of being racialised in spaces where race continues to matter in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. We will also engage in a critical reflection on how masculinity is performed within these contexts, and the possibilities that emerge at the intersection of race and masculinity.

The Lecturers

Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and Research Chair for Historical Trauma and Transformation, and the South African National Research Chair (SARChI) in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Her work is in the fields of trauma studies and research on the psychoanalytic interpretation of remorse and forgiveness.

Professor Louise du Toit, professor in the  Philosophy Department. Her main research focus is in a range of themes in feminist philosophy, especially in the interface between the African and European scholarship. Her interests include (sexual) violence, critical theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology, and (feminist) philosophy of religion.

Dr Anell Daries, lecturer at AVReQ. Her research explores the origins, trajectories, and social implications of sciences to do with the human body within the context of South African pedagogical histories, and seeks to understand how history comes to bear on and through the body.

Professor Kopano Ratele, professor in the Psychology Department. His scholarship revolves around two nodes: critical men and masculinity studies on one hand, and critical and cultural African psychological studies on the other. His research covers topics including violence, boys, men and masculinity, race and racism.

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