Workshop
Round Table discussion: Anti-racism student activism and the reparative quest at Stellenbosch University
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDr Wilhelm Verwoerd (AVReQ), Stellenbosch University and Professor Nadine Bowers-Du Toit, Practical Theology and Missiology, Stellenbosch University will co-moderate the round table. The discussion will feature Ms Nomzamo Ntombela (AVReQ) Stellenbosch University, Ms Rabia Omar [...]
Aesthetics of Memory: Soviet Gulag and Apartheid
STIAS Wallenberg Centre 10 Marais Road, Auditorium 1, Stellenbosch, South AfricaAesthetics of Memory will engage an interdisciplinary lens to explore the intersection of the politics of memory and the arts in the context of ongoing debates about histories of repression and violence, and more [...]
The AVReQ Orientation
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPlease download the program for detailed times: AVReQOrientation Programme (.docx | 3 Mb)
MASTERCLASS with Shirley Anne Tate in conversation with Dennis Francis
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africaresearch ● professional trajectory● and scholarly/personal/political journey SHIRLEY ANNE TATE Shirley Anne Tate is a Jamaican descendant of African enslaved people. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality, Sociology [...]
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 [...]
Radio Biafra as Technology of Memory: Reporting Affect in Survive the Peace and Sunset at Dawn
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) is pleased to invite you to a thought-provoking public lecture titled "Radio Biafra as Technology of Memory: Reporting Affect [...]
GERI Gender Workshop & Dialogue
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) programme is a groundbreaking initiative dedicated to advancing gender equality and fostering reconciliation in diverse communities worldwide. GERI operates on the premise that lasting gender equity cannot [...]
Tamar Garb in Conversation with William Kentridge
STIAS Wallenberg Centre 10 Marais Road, Auditorium 1, Stellenbosch, South AfricaSoviet and Apartheid-era Cultures in the ‘moving’ art of William Kentridge: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Aesthetics of Politics Tamar Garb in Conversation with William Kentridge Focussing on William Kentridge’s engagement with Russian Constructivism, [...]
Wilgenhof: Exploring the Transgenerational Legacies and the Reparative Quest – A Transgenerational Dialogue
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn an endeavour to cultivate critical dialogue and reflection on a recent incident that unfolded at the Wilgenhof residence, the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) extends [...]
Fanon In the Moment? A Critical Workshop with Homi Bhabha
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaAVReQ invites you to the Homi Bhabha Workshop, where we will closely read and discuss Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. This workshop offers an opportunity for scholars and researchers in the Faculty of [...]
Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis discussion will focus on a compelling book exploring South Africa's unresolved issue of reparation. It critiques the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's failure to adequately compensate victims of colonization and apartheid, which continues [...]
African Art, Black Subjectivity, and African Psychology
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaRefusing Racialised Structures of Aesthetic or Identity Theories This conversation will discuss some of the imperatives and challenges in the name 'African art' and the epistemic and ontological issues it raises, asking what it means [...]