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

Events for February 10, 2026 - February 10, 2026

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  • Uprooting Racism: An SU Exploratory Conversation

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

    This 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 Africa

    Cobus 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 Africa

    Dr 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 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 [...]

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