Lecture
[cancelled!] Live and Online Lecture: Science, Law, and the Afterlife of State Violence in Chile
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis event has been cancelled! Professor Eden Medina, professor in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present this lecture in person. The lecture will also be [...]
Theological roots of whiteness and the search for repair in South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCobus van Wyngaard is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa. The intertwined history of whiteness and Christianity has been a matter of persistent concern, and recent scholarship has contributed to [...]
From Biafran Babies to Hotel Rwanda: Witnessing Beyond the Lens
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this talk, I trace the complex experiences of childhood in Biafra across multiple cultural archives of the war’s memory to recuperate and foreground the Biafran child as a speaking, sensate subject whose ‘unreliable’ testimonies, [...]
‘I was paralyzed inside’: Masculinity, vulnerability, and witnessing patriarchal violence through gender dialogue at a South African University
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPatriarchal ideology in South Africa creates the feeding ground for visible and symbolic violence experienced by women and men. In this lecture I will discuss the findings from a year-long collective biography research project examining [...]
Hierarchies of being human: Intergroup dehumanization and its implication in post-apartheid South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis seminar draws on recent research, which suggests that dehumanisation in South Africa continues to reflect the socially constructed and hierarchical race categories instilled by the apartheid regime and maybe one mechanism through which socio-economic [...]
Targets of a broken system: Dehumanising experiences in the South African context
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaOur understanding of how the gross human rights violations committed during apartheid continue to impact people’s lived experiences of dehumanization is not well understood. This seminar will consider the social, environmental, and contextual influences that [...]
“The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed”: Conundrums of Silence and Violence
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaBy Professor Anthony Collins Abstract: Starting with the editorial caption in CCTV video**, this analysis unpacks some of the practical and conceptual problems in representing violence and trauma. What is the work done by different [...]
Qualitative Research with Sensitive and Vulnerable Groups Seminar Series
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCOURSE DESCRIPTION The course is designed as preparation for undertaking qualitative research and dissertation work in sensitive locations, on controversial topics, and with vulnerable, hard-to-access groups. Students will be able to design and critically discuss [...]
MASTERCLASS with Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaReflections on The Fandango Process of Research and the Role of the Researcher in the Co-production of Reparative Knowledge. Azrini Wahidin Professor Azrini Wahidin from the University of Warwick, is the author of 13 co-edited [...]
Physical Education from Volksuniversiteit to Forward Together
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Making of a Nationalist Science at Stellenbosch University, 1935-2019 Presenter: Dr. Anell Stacey Daries, Respondent: Dr. Handri Walters This presentation offers a nuanced dissection of the rise and development of physical education, later reimagined [...]
The Afterlife of Apartheid’s Immorality Act
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaBetween 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and Blacks and was extended in 1957 to also criminalize the attempt to [...]
MASTERCLASS with Prof. Gabeba Baderoon in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCreativity in the academy: A poet-scholar’s intellectual journey Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and [...]