These public conversations, moderated by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela from the wonderful space of the Stellenbosch University Museum, were with coloured, black and white women who have maintained sustained conversation about race and racism, grappling with experiencing the reality of race as it plays out in their relationship with one another. Our interest in these dialogue processes is in learning about the potentially transformative moments that emerge from these difficult conversations, and to understand some of the deeper issues that are not only difficult to face in conversations about race, but perhaps remain as challenges in the relationships and conversations about race.
Celebrating Excellence: Dr Akuch Anyieth Named Among Stellenbosch University’s Top Postdoctoral Fellows
AVReQ proudly celebrates Dr Akuch Kuol Anyieth, who has been recognised among the Top 7 Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the 2025 Research and Innovation Excellence Awards, an event that honours academic brilliance, innovation, and social [...]
AVReQ Welcomes SU’s New Vice-Chancellor: A Meeting of Vision, Research, and Global Engagement
AVReQ recently had the honour of hosting Stellenbosch University’s new Rector and Vice-Chancellor (VC), Professor Deresh Ramjugernath, for a visit that brought together shared visions for research excellence, societal impact, and global collaboration. During the [...]
New thinking about SU’s past and future
By Desmond Thompson When a study on “Age- and education-related effects on cognitive functioning in Coloured South African women” was published in 2019, it sparked outrage over how racial bias can persist in academic research [...]
Speaking Home and Beyond: Dr Akuch Anyieth’s Australian Launch of Decolonising Family Violence
The Australian leg of Dr Akuch Anyieth’s international book tour for Decolonising Family Violence Legal Intervention Orders in African-Australian Communities unfolded as both an intellectual and deeply personal journey. Throughout October, leading Australian universities [...]
Borders and Black Bodies: The ‘Placelessness’ of Blackness
Hosted by AVReQ’s Zandile Dywati and Cameron Farrar (Syracuse University), the Borders and Black Bodies: The ‘Placelessness’ of Blackness webinar brought together emerging scholars to engage the psychic, spatial and existential dislocations that define [...]
Gathering of young scholars confronts the echoes of historical trauma
Stellenbosch University (SU) recently hosted a two-day postgraduate colloquium themed “Post'-Violence Subjectivities in the Global South", bringing together students and researchers from four institutions – SU, the University of Cape Town (UCT), the University [...]