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[cancelled!] Live and Online Lecture: Science, Law, and the Afterlife of State Violence in Chile
AVReQ Offices & Virtual GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, StellenboschThis 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 [...]
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, StellenboschA 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
Tri-telescopic Memories: A New Vision of Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma.
AVReQ Offices GG Cillie Education Building, Ryneveld Street, StellenboschIn 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 [...]