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A big shoutout to our postdoc, Dr Danille Bester! She presented her paper, Advancing Black Solidarity while Coloured and Black: Reflections during COVID-19, at the 30th PsySSA & 10th PAPU Congress. #PsySSA2024 #BlackSolidarity #BlackConsciousness #ReimaginingIdentity

What can “Prime Evil” teach us about forgiveness? In the Templeton Ideas Podcast, Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela reflects on her encounters with Eugene de Kock, apartheid trauma, and her model for social healing, the “reparative quest.” 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/40uWt19

Prisoner in My Mind from the Truth Be Told series has been selected as a semi finalist at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August...

REMINDER |🚨 Applications are open for AVReQ’s 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships at Stellenbosch University! 📰 Apply by 20 Jan 2025 🔗 bit.ly/3OgCIoh #PostdocFellowship

📢 New book release!AVReQ celebrates another milestone by SU Extraordinary Prof John Brewer, whose latest book, Monotheism and Peacebuilding, is now available from Cambridge University Press!🎉 🔗Link in our bio #MonotheismAndPeacebuilding #ProfJohnBrewer #AVReQ #ReligiousStudies

Dr Daries will examine how the Physical Training Battalion sought to transform white South African boys and men with ‘remedial bodily defects’ into ‘useful citizens,’ embedding nationalist ideals through structured physical training. 🗓️RSVP Link in Bio!

OP-ED| Social Justice Struggles - Reflecting on a Fault Line| "How do we reckon with the reality that movements born from the pursuit of justice can themselves become sites of pain and suffering?" -Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela bit.ly/3QUknyB

Celebrating Dr Yumi Omori’s powerful book launch! 📖Her research highlights mothers as everyday peacebuilders, shaping post-conflict societies through care & resistance.Proud to share her work with the world! 🌍💙 #EverydayPeace #Peacebuilding #DrYumiOmori #MothersAsPeacebuilders

We are launching our Critical Engagements with Histories of Whiteness Series.This interdisciplinary series unpacks how whiteness,as identity, structure, and power,has been constructed and sustained. Link in Bio for details & RSVP #AzilleCoetzee #DecolonialFeminism #CriticalRace

To mark Freedom Month, all 6 episodes from enver samuel's Truth Be Told Series are now available on SABC+ 📷 Explore the stories emerging from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's unfinished business. sabc-plus.com/show/236521/Tr…

📸Why do people kill & die for religion?Prof John Brewer delivered a compelling lecture unpacking the paradox of monotheism, violence, and identity.This was followed by a sharp and provocative response from Prof Solomons and engaging reflections from Prof Vosloo & the audience.

We're honoured to welcome our research associate, Prof Anthony Collins, back to AVReQ! In addition to leading workshops with our postgrads, Prof Collins will be delivering a series of public lectures at SU and UWC. Links in the Bio.

Join us for the 7th Annual #AfricaDay Lecture with Prof Joel Modiri! The event inaugurates the next series of #AfricaDayLectures under the leadership of our newly appointed VC, Prof Deresh Ramjugernath. bit.ly/4dISTXr #AVReQ #SteveBiko #JoelModiri #DecolonialLaw #TRC30

We welcome back Prof Susanne Klausen (Penn State) for the final Critical Engagements with Histories of Whiteness seminar. This vital conversation examines how race, sex, and power were entangled in efforts to preserve the boundaries of whiteness. 🔗 Link in the bio.

📣 Calling all postgrads at Stellenbosch University, UCT, UWC & CPUT ! Thinking about the afterlives of violence, memory, and identity in the Global South? Present your work at the AVReQ Postgrad Colloquium. Papers, panels, posters & creative formats welcome. 🔗Link in bio

OPINION | "Du Toit and Ndwayana… are proxies for a deeper, unresolved confrontation between our country’s apartheid past and its unfulfilled democratic promise.” -Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela 🔗Link in bio to read the Op-Ed #DuToitVerdict #HigherEd #Transformation #SouthAfrica