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 [...]

Bearing Witness Series A viral video of a food delivery driver facing the threat of state-sanctioned violence and seeking safety in a private home raises urgent questions about the tension between fear and moral courage. [...]

We speak about “race” and “masculinity” as if they bestow fixed identities on subjects. Yet, in everyday encounters these categories are negotiated, resisted, imposed, and resolved in complex and often unsettling ways. How are experiences [...]

This conversation addresses Professor Trapedo Sims’ current work directing an Inside-Out education program in a men’s medium-maximum security prison in rural Illinois. Here, Prof. Trapedo Sims facilitates transformative peace-building circles that interrogate gender/queer identities, [...]

Dr. Panashe Chigumadzi to deliver the 8th Africa Day Lecture This year's lecture marks the 8th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture. The series has been hosted every May since 2018 by the Vice-Chancellor. This [...]

Socio-Economic Welfare as Post-Genocide Justice in Rwanda Phil Clark is a Professor of International Politics at SOAS University of London. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues, including transitional justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation after mass [...]

In Conversation with Richard Zide's son, Professor Gordon N Zide As Stellenbosch University reflects on its complicated history, it is also beginning to reckon with what it owes to those who have contributed to the [...]