What 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 [...]

Esther A. Armah is an author, playwright, international former journalist. She is CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), an international institute creating innovative racial healing resources. She is author of ‘Emotional Justice: [...]

Welcome to the Emotional Justice experience of narrative. We bring to life the pages of a racial healing roadmap that grapples with a legacy of untreated trauma, the language of whiteness and the troubled focus [...]

Radical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter Gabrielle Goliath situates her practice within the histories, life worlds and present-day conditions of black, brown, femme and queer life, refusing its terminal demarcation within a paradigm of [...]

The Necropolitical Violence of the Township: Interrogating Colonial and Apartheid Trauma Camp studies and Township studies have traditionally been two distinct fields of research. The aim of this lecture is not to combine the [...]

This presentation starts by contextualising violence in South Africa to generate more holistic insights and approaches to the eradication of gender-based violence. Next, as with violence, the concept gender is explored with relevance to the [...]

This presentation is an overview of the research Dr Motala has been carrying out in District Six, Cape Town. It will focus on the mapping of the site, and the resulting research projects that have [...]

Despite ongoing efforts to promote justice and equality, South Africa continues to grapple with the enduring legacy of apartheid. The systemic oppression faced by Black South Africans is notably visible in historically White spaces, [...]

Navigating life in Stellenbosch University Men’s Residences: The Experiences of Self-identifying Black Queer Students In this installment of the Gender Dialogues, Unopachido Mubaiwa shares her research that explores the experiences of black Queer students living [...]

AVReQ in collaboration with the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, presents the Theory 101 lecture series. This series seeks to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and welcomes students and scholars from [...]

Homi Bhabha In Conversation with William Kentridge HOMI K. BHABHA Professor Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University. He was [...]