Reframing Gender-Based Violence: Decolonial Feminist Dialogues from Africa to the Global Stage
In opening the conversation, Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela located the event within a longer history of struggle, solidarity and intellectual activism. Reflecting on her shared past with Professor Tamara Shefer [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
German Colonial Violence in Central Tanzania: Engaging the Afterlives
The seminar German Colonial Violence in Central Tanzania: Engaging the Afterlives of History formed part of AVReQ’s Bearing Witness series, interrogating practices of memory, museology, and the ethics of [...]
Holocaust Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Temporality, Ethics and Memory Politics
AVReQs recently hosted Dr Katrin Antweiler as part of the Bearing Witness seminar series. Dr Antweiler is a German scholar whose research examines Holocaust memorialisation and its intersections with [...]
Violent Histories and Repair Course Welcomes Global Scholars to Stellenbosch
The 2025 edition of the Violent Histories and Repair course, hosted at Stellenbosch University as part of the annual Summer School programme, was once again a great success. Coordinated [...]
The Humboldt Forum and the Global Cultural Assembly: (im)possible expectations of museums?
In June, AVReQ Post-Doctoral fellow Dr Sophia Olivia Sanan participated as a delegate in the ‘Global Cultural Assembly’, hosted by the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. The week long gathering [...]
“Consent Remains a Grey Area” – Legal Academic Urges Broader Action Against SGBV in South Sudan
As South Sudan continues to grapple with sexual and gender-based violence, which remains one of the most pressing scourges in society, legal scholar Dr Akuch Kuol emphasises the need for comprehensive interventions [...]