Prof Joel Modiri to deliver the 7th Annual Stellenbosch University Africa Day Lecture This year’s lecture, titled “The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable,” marks a significant moment in our [...]

Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’: State Imposition of Afrikaner Puritan Masculinity on White South African Manhood during Apartheid For centuries in the region that became South Africa there were relatively few social [...]

Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan will be in conversation with Dr Katrin Antweiler, about the role that Holocaust memorialisation plays in post-apartheid South Africa, and its implications for what conceptions of morality, politics, the individual and [...]

In this conversation with Dr Maximilian Chami, we will explore the afterlives of German colonial violence in Tanzania, particularly the execution of two prominent chiefs from central Tanzania and the quest for return and reparation of [...]

This webinar is an international conversation birthed through scholarly engagements with Blackness in Africa and its diaspora, particularly North America. The placelessness of blackness is to be theorized as an anti-black mechanism that justifies the [...]

A Conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth In this conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth. Prof Shefer and Dr Anyieth will reflect on their work on gender-based [...]

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 [...]

This 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 [...]

Bearing Witness Series A viral video of a food delivery driver facing the threat of state-sanctioned violence and seeking safety in a private home raises urgent questions about the tension between fear and moral courage. [...]

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 [...]

This conversation addresses Professor Trapedo Sims’ current work directing an Inside-Out education program in a men’s medium-maximum security prison in rural Illinois. Here, Prof. Trapedo Sims facilitates transformative peace-building circles that interrogate gender/queer identities, [...]

Dr. Panashe Chigumadzi to deliver the 8th Africa Day Lecture This year's lecture marks the 8th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture. The series has been hosted every May since 2018 by the Vice-Chancellor. This [...]