🎷 Directed by Enver Samuel🔊 Sound becomes story. Music becomes memory. #TruthBeToldDocuseries #SoundOnScreen2025 #MandlaMlangeni #BhekiMlangeni #JazzAsHealing #PathwaysToLight.

🎬 SOUND ON FESTIVAL SCREEN 2025.📍 @neelsiecinema, Stellenbosch.🗓 24 July | 🕢 7:30PM🎟 R75 (incl. popcorn!).The powerful Truth Be Told episode will be screened at this year's festival. A journey across time and trauma to honour the father he never knew.

📣 Calling all Postgrads at @StellenboschUni,@UCT_news,@UWConline & @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

“Solidarity is not a perfect union.” On #AfricaDay2025, Prof Pumla gave a very relevant lecture on repair, recognition & responsibility at @unimpumalanga, drawing from her work as the SARChI Chair in Violent Histories. #STISA2034 #TraumaHealing #ScienceForDevelopment #G20SA

We are honoured to have our PhD fellow, Alida van der Walt, part of this cohort!.

Call for Applications | The SARChI Chair is seeking applications for MA and PhD #Scholarships funded by the NRF. For more information on research topics, related areas of interest, eligibility criteria, and application procedures, click on the respective links in the 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

📣 Calling all postgrads at @StellenboschUni, @UCT_news, @UWConline & @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

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.

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. #AVReQ #SteveBiko #JoelModiri #DecolonialLaw #TRC30

Uncovering / Recovering the Past - A live presentation. A courtroom of memory. A call to witness. We revisit the reopened inquest into Imam Haron’s 1969 death in detention, through sculpture, sound, and archive. Where evidence becomes art, and remembrance becomes resistance.

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.

This seminar is part of AVReQ’s new series examining the construction, policing, and transformation of whiteness across South Africa’s past and present. 🔗 #AVReQ #NeilRoos #WhitenessInSA #RaceAndHistory #HistoriesofWhiteness.

AVReQ is excited to welcome back Prof Neil Roos for a vital conversation on the everyday complicities of whiteness under apartheid. He will examine how working-class whites resisted aspects of the system while benefiting from its core logic of racial supremacy.

📸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.

To mark Freedom Month, all 6 episodes from @EnverSamuel's Truth Be Told Series are now available on SABC+ 📷 Explore the stories emerging from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's unfinished business.

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

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

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 .