Events
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Fanon In the Moment? A Critical Workshop with Homi Bhabha
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaAVReQ invites you to the Homi Bhabha Workshop, where we will closely read and discuss Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks. This workshop offers an opportunity for scholars and researchers in the Faculty of [...]
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The Surealism of Fanon: Montage and Social Dialogue
STIAS Wallenberg Centre 10 Marais Road, Auditorium 1, Stellenbosch, South AfricaHomi Bhabha In Conversation with William Kentridge HOMI K. BHABHA Professor Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, Harvard University. He was [...]
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Marketplace Violence: Before and within AI
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaWhy do Black and Brown scholars struggle for legitimacy as knowers; why do millions of Black and Brown Africans struggle to secure a decent meal each day despite living on a continent richly endowed with [...]
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Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis discussion will focus on a compelling book exploring South Africa's unresolved issue of reparation. It critiques the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission's failure to adequately compensate victims of colonization and apartheid, which continues [...]
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Masterclass with Chris Spies in Conversation with Ayanda Nyoka
Victoria Cluster Hub Coligny Street, Stellenbosch, South AfricaReparative Potential of Dialogue in Conflict Transformation In this Masterclass conversation, Chris Spies will speak on the reparative potential of dialogue in conflict transformation. This session aims to unpack the practice of dialogue as a [...]
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African Art, Black Subjectivity, and African Psychology
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaRefusing Racialised Structures of Aesthetic or Identity Theories This conversation will discuss some of the imperatives and challenges in the name 'African art' and the epistemic and ontological issues it raises, asking what it means [...]
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The Theory 101 Lecture Series: “Othered space in Über-urbanity”
Faculty of Arts and Social Science Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa“Othered space in Über-urbanity”: A Bourdieuvian analysis of the good city and the right city through the Praxis of zoning in Southern Urbanism In this instalment of the Theory 101 series, Dr Herman Geyer (CRUISE) [...]