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 [...]
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 [...]
The Theory 101 Lecture Series: Demystifying Fanon: The Fact of Blackness in the Contemporary
Krotoa Building, Room 3002 52 Ryneveld St, Stellenbosch, 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 postgraduate students from various academic [...]