This lecture engages with questions surrounding the obligations and responsibilities of violence scholars who write from and with the Global South. In foregrounding interdisciplinary perspectives, the lecture focuses on the complexities of representing violence and trauma across art, literature, and media to understand how perceptions and responses to both historical and ongoing violence are shaped and evolve over time.

Professor Pumla Gqola

Pumla Gqola is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and the DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination at Nelson Mandela University. She is the author of groundbreaking studies on slave memory in South Africa, What is Slavery To Me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa, and on rape culture, Female Fear Factory: Gender and Patriarchy under Racial Capitalism, and Rape: A South African Nightmare, which won the 2016 Alan Paton Award. She has written extensively on slave memory, Black Consciousness, African and postcolonial feminisms, African and Caribbean writers, South African visual and musical artists, and postapartheid public culture.