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Centre for the Study of
the Afterlife of Violence and
the Reparative Quest

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  • From Biafran Babies to Hotel Rwanda: Witnessing Beyond the Lens

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    In 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 Africa

    Aesthetics 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 Africa

    Patriarchal 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 Africa

    This 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 Africa

    Our 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 Africa

    Please download the program for detailed times: AVReQOrientation Programme (.docx | 3 Mb)

  • MASTERCLASS with Shirley Anne Tate in conversation with Dennis Francis

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    research ● professional trajectory● and scholarly/personal/political journey SHIRLEY ANNE TATE Shirley Anne Tate is a Jamaican descendant of African enslaved people. She is Professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in Feminism and Intersectionality, Sociology [...]

  • Qualitative Research with Sensitive and Vulnerable Groups Seminar Series

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    COURSE DESCRIPTION The course is designed as preparation for undertaking qualitative research and dissertation work in sensitive locations, on controversial topics, and with vulnerable, hard-to-access groups. Students will be able to design and critically discuss [...]

  • MASTERCLASS with Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    Reflections on The Fandango Process of Research and the Role of the Researcher in the Co-production of Reparative Knowledge. Azrini Wahidin Professor Azrini Wahidin from the University of  Warwick, is  the author of  13 co-edited   [...]

  • Physical Education from Volksuniversiteit to Forward Together

    AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    The Making of a Nationalist Science at Stellenbosch University, 1935-2019 Presenter: Dr. Anell Stacey Daries, Respondent: Dr. Handri Walters This presentation offers a nuanced dissection of the rise and development of physical education, later reimagined [...]

  • The Afterlife of Apartheid’s Immorality Act

    AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

    Between 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and Blacks and was extended in 1957 to also criminalize the attempt to [...]

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