AVReQ The Podcast
Episodes
HOW Series | The Treacherous Blood-Mixer: Policing White Male Desire under Apartheid
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Prof Susanne Klausen traces the apartheid state’s obsession with suppressing interracial sex between white men and black women, revealing how Afrika...
HOW Series | Desire at the End of the White Line
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Azille Coetzee speaks with remarkable vulnerability and intellectual clarity about the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality within white Af...
HOW Series | Ordinary Whites in Apartheid Society: Social Histories of Accommodation
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Prof Neil Roos discusses how whiteness operated not only through state violence but also via the bureaucratic disciplining of the whi...
HOW Series | Inscribing Citizenship onto the White Body
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into the racialised logic of physical education in twentieth-century South Africa and its entanglement with whiteness, nationalism...
The Three Deaths of Steve Biko: Towards a Jurisprudence of the Irreparable
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful and unflinching lecture, Prof Joel Modiri challenges us to reckon with South Africa’s unfinished liberation and the symbolic transf...
Magical States and Latent Ghosts: Accountability for Apartheid-Era Crime In South Africa
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this compelling talk, Dr Robyn Gill-Leslie examines how the apartheid regime created a bureaucratic fiction to disguise political killings, using t...
Why do People Kill and Die for Religion? With Prof John Brewer
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor John Brewer explores the powerful and paradoxical question: Why do people kill and die for religion? The conversation confronts the ways in ...
Bearing Witness to Atrocities: A Conversation with Jacqueline Rose
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This conversation examines the ethical and psychological dimensions of bearing witness to atrocity, featuring Professor Jacqueline Rose and Professor ...
What Would Hannah Arendt Have Said? A Reflective Conversation on Thought, Ethics, and Repair
01 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this intellectually rigorous and emotionally resonant conversation, Professors Jacqueline Rose, Vasti Roodt, Jaco Barnard-Naudé, and Pumla Gobodo-...
Lecture Series | Reparative Justice and Social Justice Scholarship
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we explore Prof Saleem Badat's compelling seminar, Reparative Justice and Social Justice Scholarship. Moderated by Dr Anell Daries, t...
Lecture Series | Addressing Continuities of Trauma in Higher Education | Mays Imad
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we engage with Professor Mays Imad's transformative lecture, Addressing Continuities of Trauma in Higher Education: Fostering Equity ...
Lecture Series | The Afterlife of Apartheid's Immorality Act: Enduring Legacies of the Criminalization of Interracial Desire
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1950 the apartheid regime passed the Immorality (Amendment) Act that criminalized heterosexual desire between “Europeans” and “non-Europeans....
Lecture Series | African Art, Black Subjectivity, and African Psychology: Refusing Racialized Structures and Embracing Decolonial Potential | Kopano Ratele
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Kopano Ratele and Dr. Sophia Sanan engage in a profound dialogue on the intersections of African art, black subjectivity, a...
Lecture Series | Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode will focus on a compelling book exploring South Africa’s unresolved issue of reparation. It critiques the South African Truth and Recon...
Lecture Series | The Surrealism of Fanon | Homi Bhabha in conversation with William Kentridge
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Professor Homi Bhabha engages in a conversation with acclaimed artist William Kentridge. Their dialogue revolves around Kentridge...
Masterclass | Gabrielle Goliath in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
12 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Radical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter In this installment of the masterclass, Rabia Abba Omar was in conversation with Gabrielle ...
Lecture Series | The Afterlife of Apartheid's Immorality Act
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heter...
The Making of a Nationalist Science at Stellenbosch University, 1935-2019
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode offers a nuanced dissection of the rise and development of physical education, later reimagined as sport science, as a department and as ...
Lecture Series | ‘Whose side are we on?’: The University’s Moral Responsibility for Social Transformation
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture addresses the public value of the social sciences and its implications for ethical engagement by academics, particularly focusing on univ...
Masterclass | Azrini Wahidin in conversation with Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza
22 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this instalment of the masterclass, Gratia Aimee Ilibagiza is in conversation with Professor Azrini Wahidin as she shares her experience of conduct...
Masterclass | Shirley Anne Tate in conversation with Dennis Francis
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this instalment of the masterclass, Professor Dennis Francis is in conversation with Professor Shirley Anne Tate discussing decoloniality, intersec...
Lecture Series | “The Sound of Children Screaming Has Been Removed”: Conundrums of Silence and Violence
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On May 24, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, a former studen...
Concretions: Ghostly Echoes of the Slave Ship São José
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rabia Abba Omar is a researcher and curator working towards a MA in Visual Studies from Stellenbosch University’s Visual Arts Department. She likes ...
Masterclass | zethu Matebeni in conversation with Rabia Abba Omar
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Zintombizethu (zethu) Matebeni is a sociologist, activist and writer whose research focuses on the development of African Queer Studies. She has worke...
Mediated cruelty: Second-hand aesthetics of horror
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andrea Gullotta is lecturer in Russian at the University of Palermo. He has also worked for the University of Glasgow, the Ca' Foscari University of V...
Ballie Boys
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Siona O’Connell (PhD) is an African Studies scholar/practitioner in the School of the Arts at the University of Pretoria. Her research foc...
Between memory and cruelty: On the failure of postapartheid lament
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Heidi Grunebaum is a writer and academic, and Director of the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape. Her work focus...