Lecture
“The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed”: Conundrums of Silence and Violence
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaBy Professor Anthony Collins Abstract: Starting with the editorial caption in CCTV video**, this analysis unpacks some of the practical and conceptual problems in representing violence and trauma. What is the work done by different [...]
Qualitative Research with Sensitive and Vulnerable Groups Seminar Series
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCOURSE DESCRIPTION The course is designed as preparation for undertaking qualitative research and dissertation work in sensitive locations, on controversial topics, and with vulnerable, hard-to-access groups. Students will be able to design and critically discuss [...]
MASTERCLASS with Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaReflections on The Fandango Process of Research and the Role of the Researcher in the Co-production of Reparative Knowledge. Azrini Wahidin Professor Azrini Wahidin from the University of Warwick, is the author of 13 co-edited [...]
Physical Education from Volksuniversiteit to Forward Together
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Making of a Nationalist Science at Stellenbosch University, 1935-2019 Presenter: Dr. Anell Stacey Daries, Respondent: Dr. Handri Walters This presentation offers a nuanced dissection of the rise and development of physical education, later reimagined [...]
The Afterlife of Apartheid’s Immorality Act
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaBetween 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and Blacks and was extended in 1957 to also criminalize the attempt to [...]
MASTERCLASS with Prof. Gabeba Baderoon in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCreativity in the academy: A poet-scholar’s intellectual journey Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and [...]
The 5th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaProf Gabeba Baderoon to deliver the 5th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture, Hosted by the Vice Chancellor In collaboration with the Centre for Collaboration in Africa Tile: The University and Its Hinterland: A [...]
Dialogues Across Violent Histories: Indigenous Arts and Social Cohesion
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPresented by the Australian High Commission in partnership with AVReQ Stellenbosch University Dialogues Across Violent Histories explores the critical role that Australian and African artists, and indigenous practitioners play in providing intersectional frameworks that respond [...]
“The Forgotten Ones”: Revisiting the History of the South African Cape Coloured Corps
SA Cape Corps Memorial Hall 27 Petunia Rd, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaWhat happens when people’s histories are silenced? In this dialogue, we revisit the history of the South African Cape Coloured Corps, “The Forgotten Ones”. An often silenced and marginalised aspect of South African military history [...]
Healing Harm, Heeding History – MASTERCLASS with Esther Armah
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaEsther A. Armah is an author, playwright, international former journalist. She is CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), an international institute creating innovative racial healing resources. She is author of ‘Emotional Justice: [...]
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE Dramatization & Dialogue
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaWelcome to the Emotional Justice experience of narrative. We bring to life the pages of a racial healing roadmap that grapples with a legacy of untreated trauma, the language of whiteness and the troubled focus [...]
MASTERCLASS with Gabrielle Goliath in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaRadical 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 [...]