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HOW Series | The Treacherous Blood-Mixer: Policing White Male Desire under Apartheid
Prof Susanne Klausen traces the apartheid state’s obsession with suppressing interracial sex between white men and black women, revealing how Afrikaner nationalism relied on a punitive, puritanical…
HOW Series | Desire at the End of the White Line
Dr Azille Coetzee speaks with remarkable vulnerability and intellectual clarity about the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within white Afrikaner identity. Drawing on personal memoir and…
S1 HOW Series | Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation
In this episode, Prof Neil Roos discusses how whiteness operated not only through state violence but also via the bureaucratic disciplining of the white working class. Drawing on archival material…
HOW Series | Inscribing Citizenship onto the White Body
This episode delves into the racialised logic of physical education in twentieth-century South Africa and its entanglement with whiteness, nationalism and citizenship. Dr Anell Stacey Daries examines…
The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable
In this powerful and unflinching lecture, Prof Joel Modiri challenges us to reckon with South Africa’s unfinished liberation and the symbolic transformation that has failed to deliver substantive…
Magical States and Latent Ghosts: Accountability for Apartheid-Era Crime In South Africa
In this compelling talk, Dr Robyn Gill-Leslie examines how the apartheid regime created a bureaucratic fiction to disguise political killings, using the case of Imam Abdullah Haron as a focal point.…
Why do People Kill and Die for Religion? With Prof John Brewer
Professor John Brewer explores the powerful and paradoxical question: Why do people kill and die for religion? The conversation confronts the ways in which monotheistic religions have been entangled…
Bearing Witness to Atrocities: A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose
This conversation examines the ethical and psychological dimensions of bearing witness to atrocity, featuring Professor Jacqueline Rose and Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela. Through insights…
What Would Hannah Arendt Have Said? A Reflective Conversation on Thought, Ethics, and Repair
In this intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant conversation, Professors Jacqueline Rose, Vasti Roodt, Jaco Barnard-Naudé, and Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela examine what it means to “think without…
Lecture Series | Reparative Justice and Social Justice Scholarship
In this episode, we explore Prof Saleem Badat's compelling seminar, Reparative Justice and Social Justice Scholarship. Moderated by Dr Anell Daries, the discussion examines the structural and…
Lecture Series | Addressing Continuities of Trauma in Higher Education | Mays Imad
In this episode, we engage with Professor Mays Imad's transformative lecture, Addressing Continuities of Trauma in Higher Education: Fostering Equity and Intergenerational Wellbeing. A neuroscientist…
Lecture Series | The Afterlife of Apartheid's Immorality Act: Enduring Legacies of the Criminalization of Interracial Desire
In 1950 the apartheid regime passed the Immorality (Amendment) Act that criminalized heterosexual desire between “Europeans” and “non-Europeans.” During the 35 years the Act was on the statute book…
Lecture Series | African Art, Black Subjectivity, and African Psychology: Refusing Racialized Structures and Embracing Decolonial Potential | Kopano Ratele
In this episode, Professor Kopano Ratele and Dr. Sophia Sanan engage in a profound dialogue on the intersections of African art, black subjectivity, and African psychology. They explore the…
Lecture Series | Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This episode will focus on a compelling book exploring South Africa’s unresolved issue of reparation. It critiques the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s failure to adequately…
Lecture Series | The Surrealism of Fanon | Homi Bhabha in conversation with William Kentridge
In this episode, Professor Homi Bhabha engages in a conversation with acclaimed artist William Kentridge. Their dialogue revolves around Kentridge's latest project, "The Great YES, The Great No," a…
Masterclass | Gabrielle Goliath in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
Radical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter In this installment of the masterclass, Rabia Abba Omar was in conversation with Gabrielle Goliath as she shared on “Radical Familiar. A…
Lecture Series | The Afterlife of Apartheid's Immorality Act
Between 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and Blacks and was extended…
The Making of a Nationalist Science at Stellenbosch University, 1935-2019
This episode offers a nuanced dissection of the rise and development of physical education, later reimagined as sport science, as a department and as an academic discipline at Stellenbosch University…
Lecture Series | ‘Whose side are we on?’: The University’s Moral Responsibility for Social Transformation
This lecture addresses the public value of the social sciences and its implications for ethical engagement by academics, particularly focusing on universities’ moral responsibilities in societies…
Masterclass | Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza
In this instalment of the masterclass, Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza is in conversation with Professor Azrini Wahidin as she shares her experience of conducting research with prisoners, her feminist praxis,…
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