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  • Borders and Black Bodies: The ‘Placelessness’ of Blackness | Webinar

    AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    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 [...]

  • “Writing violence in violent times”

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    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 [...]

  • Trauma-informed teaching and transformative discomfort: from elite victims to social justice

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    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 [...]

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