Tri-telescopic Memories: A New Vision of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma.
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this paper Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela explores new avenues of enquiry in intergenerational afterlives of multigenerational systematic violence and oppression. A tri-directional perspective in which memory crosses and re-crosses past, present, and future temporalities is [...]
When I am alone I feel like a target sometimes’: Frail white ladies, apartheid ghosts, and the unmaking of the settler self
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaA close-reading of the story of Hermien du Toit, a young white woman from a South African town, to explore how colonial/apartheid racial categories decades after the formal ending of apartheid. Dr. Azille Coetzee
[cancelled!] Live and Online Lecture: Science, Law, and the Afterlife of State Violence in Chile
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis event has been cancelled! Professor Eden Medina, professor in the Program for Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will present this lecture in person. The lecture will also be [...]
Uprooting Racism: An SU Exploratory Conversation
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis is the first of a three-part series of AVReQ events in June engaging with the Violence of Racism. RSVP and Signup: In-person https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuVtmktjMRPCRpfsKNR15qhwr_dzp3C4H7Bo0SUdyFB7vqZg/viewform Virtual https://maties.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_A4YbfY-MT5GyIasKPvICvw
Theological roots of whiteness and the search for repair in South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaCobus van Wyngaard is Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the University of South Africa. The intertwined history of whiteness and Christianity has been a matter of persistent concern, and recent scholarship has contributed to [...]
Round Table discussion: Anti-racism student activism and the reparative quest at Stellenbosch University
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaDr Wilhelm Verwoerd (AVReQ), Stellenbosch University and Professor Nadine Bowers-Du Toit, Practical Theology and Missiology, Stellenbosch University will co-moderate the round table. The discussion will feature Ms Nomzamo Ntombela (AVReQ) Stellenbosch University, Ms Rabia Omar [...]
From Biafran Babies to Hotel Rwanda: Witnessing Beyond the Lens
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaIn this talk, I trace the complex experiences of childhood in Biafra across multiple cultural archives of the war’s memory to recuperate and foreground the Biafran child as a speaking, sensate subject whose ‘unreliable’ testimonies, [...]
Aesthetics of Memory: Soviet Gulag and Apartheid
STIAS Wallenberg Centre 10 Marais Road, Auditorium 1, Stellenbosch, South AfricaAesthetics of Memory will engage an interdisciplinary lens to explore the intersection of the politics of memory and the arts in the context of ongoing debates about histories of repression and violence, and more [...]
‘I was paralyzed inside’: Masculinity, vulnerability, and witnessing patriarchal violence through gender dialogue at a South African University
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPatriarchal ideology in South Africa creates the feeding ground for visible and symbolic violence experienced by women and men. In this lecture I will discuss the findings from a year-long collective biography research project examining [...]
Hierarchies of being human: Intergroup dehumanization and its implication in post-apartheid South Africa
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaThis seminar draws on recent research, which suggests that dehumanisation in South Africa continues to reflect the socially constructed and hierarchical race categories instilled by the apartheid regime and maybe one mechanism through which socio-economic [...]
Targets of a broken system: Dehumanising experiences in the South African context
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaOur understanding of how the gross human rights violations committed during apartheid continue to impact people’s lived experiences of dehumanization is not well understood. This seminar will consider the social, environmental, and contextual influences that [...]
The AVReQ Orientation
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South AfricaPlease download the program for detailed times: AVReQOrientation Programme (.docx | 3 Mb)