The Afterlife of Apartheid’s Immorality Act
Between 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and blacks and was extended [...]
Masterclass | Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza
In this instalment of the masterclass, Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza is in conversation with Professor Azrini Wahidin as she shares her experience of conducting research with prisoners, her feminist praxis, [...]
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 [...]
AVReQ Launch
Launch of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) Date: 15 & 16 February 2022 The hybrid event was be moderated by [...]