Events
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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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Book Launch | Decolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaAVReQ is pleased to invite you to the launch of Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth’s book, Decolonising Family Violence: Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities. This book explores experiences of Family Violence Intervention Orders (FVIOs) in African-Australian [...]
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Beyond Abstraction: Bearing Witness and Choosing Solidarity in a Time of Violence
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaBearing Witness Series A viral video of a food delivery driver facing the threat of state-sanctioned violence and seeking safety in a private home raises urgent questions about the tension between fear and moral courage. [...]
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Truth be Told: Screening, healing and discussion
Bertha House 69 Main Rd, Mowbray, Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaWe would like to invite you to take part in a screening and healing discussion in response to Enver Samuels "Truth be Told" - a powerful series which unpacks cases from the Truth and Reconciliation [...]
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Entanglements of Race and Masculinity: Reflections on interpersonal encounters
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaWe speak about “race” and “masculinity” as if they bestow fixed identities on subjects. Yet, in everyday encounters these categories are negotiated, resisted, imposed, and resolved in complex and often unsettling ways. How are experiences [...]
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Reckoning with Restorative Justice: The power of prison voices in Hawaiʻi and Illinois
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis conversation addresses Professor Trapedo Sims’ current work directing an Inside-Out education program in a men’s medium-maximum security prison in rural Illinois. Here, Prof. Trapedo Sims facilitates transformative peace-building circles that interrogate gender/queer identities, [...]
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The Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Africa Day Lecture
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaDr. Panashe Chigumadzi to deliver the 8th Africa Day Lecture This year's lecture marks the 8th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture. The series has been hosted every May since 2018 by the Vice-Chancellor. This [...]
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Black men & masculinities in post-colonial Southern Africa: Fragilities, Ruptures and Possibilities
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaHybrid symposium Over the past decades, critical studies of men and masculinities globally have continued to, whether consciously or not, frame Black masculinities as the “antithesis of white masculinities”. The study of Black men's masculinities [...]
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Transformative Education: Trauma-Informed Education for Learning, Growth, and Cultivating Care
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn today's complex societal landscape, trauma is a pervasive force affecting our communities and individual lives. Its impact extends beyond the physiological, deeply influencing our psychological wellbeing. This reality hampers our ability to engage fully, [...]
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Postdoc Seminar: From Fatherlessness to Fatherhood
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaReconstructing Masculinity Among Young Men in Langa Through Fatherhood Bapiwe Gobodo Chair & Discussant: Zandile Dywati