​AVReQ three-part conversation series engaging with the violence of racism at Stellenbosch University and in South Africa (June 2022)

This month the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) will host a three-part conversation series engaging with the violence of racism in the context of Stellenbosch University as well as broader South African society. The speakers include student leaders, activists and academics. All three conversations can be attended either in person (at the AVReQ Offices, 37 Ryneveld Street) or online.

The series will consist of the following three events:

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Uprooting Racism: An SU Exploratory Conversation

Wednesday 8 June 2022, 12:30 to 13:45

The panelists are John van Niekerk (Primarius of Wilgenhof Men's Residence), Westley Ceasar (SU alumnus and research assistant at AVReQ), and Dr Wilhelm Verwoerd (Senior Researcher at AVReQ). The conversation will be facilitated by Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela.

To attend in person, register here.

To attend online, register here.

Theological Roots of Whiteness and the Search for Repair in South Africa

Lecture by Cobus van Wyngaard (Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at UNISA)

Thursday 9 June 2022, 12:30 to 13:45

Lecture description: The intertwined history of whiteness and Christianity has been a matter of persistent concern, and recent scholarship has contributed to deepening our ability to trace the way in which Christian theology serves to underpin the colonial world while being distorted through this very work. The lecture will seek to illustrate how our understanding of the theological roots of whiteness can assist in grappling with the particular history of racism in South Africa, and explore how the language of repair could assist in imagining the work required of and within Christian theology for the sake of the communities that we are embedded in.

To attend in person, register here.

To attend online, register here.

Round Table Discussion: Anti-Racism Student Activism and the Reparative Quest at Stellenbosch University

Wednesday 15 June, 12:30 to 13:45

The conversation will feature the following students: Nomzamo Ntombela (AVReQ), Rabia Omar (AVReQ), Christine Venter (Theology Faculty, Stellenbosch University) and Lyndon Mactavie (Theology Faculty, Stellenbosch University). And it will be co-moderated by Dr Wilhelm Verwoerd (AVReQ) and Professor Nadine Bowers-Du Toit  (Practical Theology and Missiology, Stellenbosch University). 

To attend in person, register here.

To attend online, register here.​