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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

“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. [...]

With Professors Deborah Willis and Tamar Garb Images of black social protest are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. From the medium’s beginning, race and gender have shaped [...]