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 [...]
Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid
Shanthini Naidoo speaks about her book Women in Solitary: Inside the Female Resistance to Apartheid (2020). The sacrifices and contributions made by women are rarely acknowledge in the histories of liberation movements, [...]
Reflecting on Historical Trauma: Living with the Haunting Power of the Past
This discussion was organised as part of the series of events to launch our book, Post-Conflict Hauntings: Transforming Memories of Historical Trauma, Co-edited by Kim Wale, pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Jeffrey [...]
Apartheid Trauma: Intergenerational Dialogue
This conversation was a reflection on ways in which the students engaged with the stories and the storytellers in the digital exhibition titled The Things that Sit with Us. Dr. [...]
Rethinking Trauma Theory
Trauma Studies Group Seminar Series We curated a series of conversations between members of the Trauma Studies Group and leading scholars in the field of trauma and memory. Our [...]
Trauma Studies Group Seminar Series
“African Scholars Thinking with Cathy Caruth” Prof. Cathy Caruth, professor of English literature, Cornell University in conversation with: Dr. Sakiru Adebayo (Assistant professor of English, University of British Columbia), Dr. [...]