Events
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Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation – Prof Neil Roos
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDrawing on his own family’s story and others, Roos explores how working-class whites frequently defied particular aspects of the apartheid state but seldom opposed or even acknowledged the idea of racial supremacy, which lay [...]
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Uncovering/Recovering the Past
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaUncovering/Recovering the Past is a multi-layered event that engages with the reopened inquest into the death of Imam Abdullah Haron, whilst in police custody in 1969. Through the collaborative work of visual artist Haroon Gunn-Salie and human rights [...]
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The Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Africa Day Lecture
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaProf Joel Modiri to deliver the 7th Annual Stellenbosch University Africa Day Lecture This year’s lecture, titled “The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable,” marks a significant moment in our [...]
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Policing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’ – Prof Susanne Klausen
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPolicing the Desire of the Treacherous ‘Blood-Mixer’: State Imposition of Afrikaner Puritan Masculinity on White South African Manhood during Apartheid For centuries in the region that became South Africa there were relatively few social [...]
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Holocaust Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Temporality, Ethics and Memory Politics
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDr Sophia Olivia Sanan will be in conversation with Dr Katrin Antweiler, about the role that Holocaust memorialisation plays in post-apartheid South Africa, and its implications for what conceptions of morality, politics, the individual and [...]
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German Colonial Violence in Central Tanzania: Engaging the Afterlives with Dr Maximilian Chami
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this conversation with Dr Maximilian Chami, we will explore the afterlives of German colonial violence in Tanzania, particularly the execution of two prominent chiefs from central Tanzania and the quest for return and reparation of [...]
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‘Post’-Violence Subjectivities in the Global South Colloquium
Visual Arts Building Victoria St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis year's colloquium, themed 'Post'-Violence Subjectivities in the Global South, will bring together Master's and PhD students from SU, University of Cape Town, University of the Western Cape, and Cape Peninsula University of Technology whose work engages [...]
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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 AfricaThis 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 [...]
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Book Launch| Decolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDecolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities This book presents an intersectional, decolonial analysis of family violence intervention/prevention within the African-Australians Communities in Victoria, Australia. It explores the experiences of Family Violence Intervention [...]
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Decolonising Conversations on Gender-Based Violence: African Feminist Perspectives and Global Challenges
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaA Conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth In this conversation between Prof Tamara Shefer and Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth. Prof Shefer and Dr Anyieth will reflect on their work on gender-based [...]
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“Writing violence in violent times”
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis 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 [...]
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Trauma-informed teaching and transformative discomfort: from elite victims to social justice
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis 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 [...]