Reckoning with Echoes of the Past: A South African Story

Date: 

Thursday, September 29, 2022, 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

The repercussions of violent histories extend far beyond these events to engender repetitions that echo for generations. In this lecture, Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela will reflect on this problem and consider alternative ways of theorizing and making sense of the "transgenerational trauma" phenomenon, with the South African post-apartheid context as backdrop.

Gobodo-Madikizela is a professor and research chair at Stellenbosch University. She holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and is also the founding director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch University.

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