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 [...]

Why do Black and Brown scholars struggle for legitimacy as knowers; why do millions of Black and Brown Africans struggle to secure a decent meal each day despite living on a continent richly endowed with [...]

Reparative Potential of Dialogue in Conflict Transformation In this Masterclass conversation, Chris Spies will speak on the reparative potential of dialogue in conflict transformation. This session aims to unpack the practice of dialogue as a [...]

“Othered space in Über-urbanity”: A Bourdieuvian analysis of the good city and the right city through the Praxis of zoning in Southern Urbanism In this instalment of the Theory 101 series, Dr Herman Geyer (CRUISE) [...]