Lecture
‘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 [...]
The 5th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaProf Gabeba Baderoon to deliver the 5th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture, Hosted by the Vice Chancellor In collaboration with the Centre for Collaboration in Africa Tile: The University and Its Hinterland: A [...]
Dialogues Across Violent Histories: Indigenous Arts and Social Cohesion
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPresented by the Australian High Commission in partnership with AVReQ Stellenbosch University Dialogues Across Violent Histories explores the critical role that Australian and African artists, and indigenous practitioners play in providing intersectional frameworks that respond [...]
“The Forgotten Ones”: Revisiting the History of the South African Cape Coloured Corps
SA Cape Corps Memorial Hall 27 Petunia Rd, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaWhat happens when people’s histories are silenced? In this dialogue, we revisit the history of the South African Cape Coloured Corps, “The Forgotten Ones”. An often silenced and marginalised aspect of South African military history [...]