Events
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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 [...]
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Bearing Witness: Recognition, Responsibility, and the Burden of Seeing
Attie van Wijk Auditorium - Theological Seminary 171 Dorp St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThis interdisciplinary conference will ask the question of what it means to bear witness in a time of relentless violence? When images of cruelty dominate our screens and when acts of public witnessing may deepen hostility [...]