Whose side are we on? The University’s Moral Responsibility for Social Transformation
Professor John D Brewer recently delivered a series of seminars, a public lecture and engaged in exploratory discussions, at our Centre, which focused on several important topics. These topics [...]
Legacies of Violence and Trauma’s Repair Conference
6-9 December 2022 Kalk Bay, Cape Town, South Africa “Transgenerational transmission of trauma” has become one of the primary ways in which legacies of violent histories have been understood [...]
AVReQ x VCD Collaborative Workshop Series
The AVReQ x VCD was a collaborative flagship workshop series for the third year Visual Communication Design students in the Visual Arts Department at SU. The VCD course, coordinated [...]
With(Out) the Silver Spoon: Collaborative Making as Liberatory Memory Work for Coloured Communities
Presenter: Mishkah Abrahams In this presentation Mishkah Abrahams will reflect on how the spoon acts as “vibrant matter” for thinking through the entanglement of food and its attendant rituals as [...]
Book Launch: Queer Activism in South African Education – Dennis Francis
Date: Wednesday, 31 August 2022 For the inaugural launch in our Book Launch Series, AVReQ was honoured to host Professor Dennis Francis. For this momentous occasion, Professor zethu Matebeni [...]
Collaboration with the University of Fort Hare’s Goven Mbeki Research and Development Centre
AVReQ has established a new collaboration with the University of Fort Hare’s Goven Mbeki Research and Development Centre on their staff exchange programme for early career academics. The initiative is [...]
Homi Bhabha on the Meaning of Fanon Today
In this conversation, which forms part of the AVReQ Reading Group’s events for the year, we take Homi Bhabha’s incisive introduction to Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks as a point [...]
Congratulations to our Masters’ students who have completed with flying colours
Ayanda Nyoka, has completed her Masters degree cum laude on the topic “Black Women’s Healing from Trauma: Centering Christian Spirituality in a Story Telling Community Healing Methodology.” Read more about [...]
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela wins the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award
The Chair, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, won the prestigious Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award. In the photo below she receives the award from Jonathan Oppenheimer, the Chair of the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. The [...]
The Creative Force of Imaginaries for Reparative Humanism
This event was co-hosted with the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust and was organised as a lead to the Harry Oppenheimer Award ceremony for the Chair of AVReQ. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was in [...]