Historians 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 [...]

Drawing 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 [...]

Prof Joel Modiri to deliver the 7th Annual Stellenbosch University Africa Day Lecture This year’s lecture, titled “The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable,” marks a significant moment in our [...]

Policing 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 [...]

Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan will be in conversation with Dr Katrin Antweiler, about the role that Holocaust memorialisation plays in post-apartheid South Africa, and its implications for what conceptions of morality, politics, the individual and [...]

In this conversation with Dr Maximilian Chami, we will explore the afterlives of German colonial violence in Tanzania, particularly the execution of two prominent chiefs from central Tanzania and the quest for return and reparation of [...]

This webinar is an international conversation birthed through scholarly engagements with Blackness in Africa and its diaspora, particularly North America. The placelessness of blackness is to be theorized as an anti-black mechanism that justifies the [...]

A Conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth In this conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth. Prof Shefer and Dr Anyieth will reflect on their work on gender-based [...]

This lecture engages with questions surrounding the obligations and responsibilities of violence scholars who write from and with the Global South. In foregrounding interdisciplinary perspectives, the lecture focuses on the complexities of representing violence and [...]

This talk develops the concept of transformative discomfort, building on Michalinos Zembylas’ pedagogy of discomfort, and integrating insights from trauma work on windows of tolerance. This shows how, within supportive environments, experiencing manageable distress can [...]