Lecture
Launch of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe new centre will be launched with a series of events featuring leading artists and scholars over two days. The opening hybrid event for the launch on 15 February, which will be curated by Tamar [...]
A conversation with Homi Bhabha on the Meaning of Fanon Today
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this conversation, which forms part of the AVReQ Reading Group’s events for the year, we take Homi Bhabha’s incisive introduction to Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks as a point of departure in thinking about [...]
Encounters: Conversations on Witnessing Violence
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaProfessor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela in conversation with Professors Elena Isayev (Exeter University), Heidi Grunebaum (UWC), and Grant Parker (Stanford University). This Round Table event is part of a series of exploratory conversations to open up discussions [...]
Tri-telescopic Memories: A New Vision of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma.
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this paper Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela explores new avenues of enquiry in intergenerational afterlives of multigenerational systematic violence and oppression. A tri-directional perspective in which memory crosses and re-crosses past, present, and future temporalities is [...]
When I am alone I feel like a target sometimes’: Frail white ladies, apartheid ghosts, and the unmaking of the settler self
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaA close-reading of the story of Hermien du Toit, a young white woman from a South African town, to explore how colonial/apartheid racial categories decades after the formal ending of apartheid. Dr. Azille Coetzee
[cancelled!] Live and Online Lecture: Science, Law, and the Afterlife of State Violence in Chile
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis event has been cancelled! Professor Eden Medina, professor in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present this lecture in person. The lecture will also be [...]
Theological roots of whiteness and the search for repair in South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCobus van Wyngaard is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa. The intertwined history of whiteness and Christianity has been a matter of persistent concern, and recent scholarship has contributed to [...]
From Biafran Babies to Hotel Rwanda: Witnessing Beyond the Lens
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this talk, I trace the complex experiences of childhood in Biafra across multiple cultural archives of the war’s memory to recuperate and foreground the Biafran child as a speaking, sensate subject whose ‘unreliable’ testimonies, [...]
‘I was paralyzed inside’: Masculinity, vulnerability, and witnessing patriarchal violence through gender dialogue at a South African University
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPatriarchal ideology in South Africa creates the feeding ground for visible and symbolic violence experienced by women and men. In this lecture I will discuss the findings from a year-long collective biography research project examining [...]
Hierarchies of being human: Intergroup dehumanization and its implication in post-apartheid South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis seminar draws on recent research, which suggests that dehumanisation in South Africa continues to reflect the socially constructed and hierarchical race categories instilled by the apartheid regime and maybe one mechanism through which socio-economic [...]
Targets of a broken system: Dehumanising experiences in the South African context
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaOur understanding of how the gross human rights violations committed during apartheid continue to impact people’s lived experiences of dehumanization is not well understood. This seminar will consider the social, environmental, and contextual influences that [...]