Healing Harm, Heeding History – MASTERCLASS with Esther Armah
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaEsther A. Armah is an author, playwright, international former journalist. She is CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), an international institute creating innovative racial healing resources. She is author of ‘Emotional Justice: [...]
EMOTIONAL JUSTICE Dramatization & Dialogue
Stellenbosch University Museum 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaWelcome to the Emotional Justice experience of narrative. We bring to life the pages of a racial healing roadmap that grapples with a legacy of untreated trauma, the language of whiteness and the troubled focus [...]
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 [...]
MASTERCLASS with Gabrielle Goliath in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaRadical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter Gabrielle Goliath situates her practice within the histories, life worlds and present-day conditions of black, brown, femme and queer life, refusing its terminal demarcation within a paradigm of [...]
The Necropolitical Violence of the Township: Interrogating Colonial and Apartheid Trauma
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThe Necropolitical Violence of the Township: Interrogating Colonial and Apartheid Trauma Camp studies and Township studies have traditionally been two distinct fields of research. The aim of this lecture is not to combine the [...]
Masculinity Meets Humanity: An Adapted Model of Masculinised Psychotherapy
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis presentation starts by contextualising violence in South Africa to generate more holistic insights and approaches to the eradication of gender-based violence. Next, as with violence, the concept gender is explored with relevance to the [...]
Counter-surveying District Six and Stellenbosch
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis presentation is an overview of the research Dr Motala has been carrying out in District Six, Cape Town. It will focus on the mapping of the site, and the resulting research projects that have [...]
Cogs In a Machine: Exploring Organizational Dehumanization In Post-Apartheid South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDespite ongoing efforts to promote justice and equality, South Africa continues to grapple with the enduring legacy of apartheid. The systemic oppression faced by Black South Africans is notably visible in historically White spaces, [...]
AVReQ Gender Dialogues – Navigating life in Stellenbosch University men’s residences
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaNavigating life in Stellenbosch University Men’s Residences: The Experiences of Self-identifying Black Queer Students In this installment of the Gender Dialogues, Unopachido Mubaiwa shares her research that explores the experiences of black Queer students living [...]
The Theory 101 Lecture Series: Demystifying Frantz Fanon
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaAVReQ in collaboration with the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, presents the Theory 101 lecture series. This series seeks to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and welcomes students and scholars from [...]
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 [...]
The Colonial Wound and the Practice of Repair
Adam Small Theatre Complex 15 Victoria St, Stellenbosch, South AfricaThe Colloquium, The Colonial Wound and the Practice of Repair, aims to engender a fertile intellectual space for an interrogation and reparative engagement with the injury: psychic, existential, and spiritual, wrought by centuries of [...]