Events
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“Writing violence in violent times”
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis 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 [...]
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Trauma-informed teaching and transformative discomfort: from elite victims to social justice
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis talk develops the concept of transformative discomfort, building on Michalinos Zembylas’ pedagogy of discomfort, and integrating insights from trauma work on windows of tolerance. This shows how, within supportive environments, experiencing manageable distress can [...]
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Bearing Witness: Recognition, Responsibility, and the Burden of Seeing
Attie van Wijk Auditorium - Theological Seminary 171 Dorp St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis interdisciplinary conference will ask the question of what it means to bear witness in a time of relentless violence? When images of cruelty dominate our screens and when acts of public witnessing may deepen hostility [...]