Lecture
Why do People Kill and Die for Religion? With Prof John Brewer
Hofmeyr Hall (Room 2003, Faculty of Theology) 171 Dorp St, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis public lecture draws on Prof John Brewer’s recently published book, Monotheism and Peacebuilding. Brewer will address the opportunities and constraints operating on monotheistic peacebuilding, focusing on the three Abrahamic faiths, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, [...]
Desire at the End of the White Line: Notes on the Decolonisation of White Afrikaner Femininity – Dr Azille Coetzee
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaHistorians teach us that in South Africa’s colonial and apartheid history, race was made and maintained through the violent regulation of sex, intimacy and familial love; that to understand Afrikaner whiteness and the violence [...]
Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation – Prof Neil Roos
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDrawing on his own family’s story and others, Roos explores how working-class whites frequently defied particular aspects of the apartheid state but seldom opposed or even acknowledged the idea of racial supremacy, which lay [...]
Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’ – Prof Susanne Klausen
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPolicing 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 [...]