Professor Kopano Ratele will be a panellist in the 1st of the 2023 Webinar Series hosted by PsySSA (Psychological Society of South Africa). Exploring notions of meritocracy and its challenges for diversity in professional practice, considering the histories of resistance and activism in Africa and current practices of pathologizing that [...]
The Nelson Mandela University-DSI-NRF SARChI Chair in African Feminist Imagination and the Centre for Women and Gender Studies (CWGS) present the Author Fridays "Book Launch and Roundtable Series" with Professor Kopano Ratele, 5 May 2023
During the week of 20 February, I was privileged to spend the week at Pacifica Graduate Institute as a visiting scholar. I had always wanted to experience first-hand what a programme that integrates psychologies of liberation, critical community inquiry, Indigenous Psychologies, and psychoanalytic traditions, may look like. I was therefore [...]
Die Universiteit Stellenbosch se Fakulteit Geneeskunde en Gesondheidswetenskappe nooi alumni om ons Breaking Boundaries @BMRI-geleentheid by te woon. Dit is 'n onafhanklik-georganiseerde byeenkoms wat deel uitmaak van die inwyding van ons wêreldklas Biomediese Navorsingsinstituut op die Tygerberg-kampus. Breaking Boundaries @BMRI word deur die Fakulteit se bestuurspan aangebied en is daarop gemik om jou te betrek [...]
Chair of the psychology department and member of African Thought, Desmond Painter, published this article on racism at Stellenbosch University which can be accessed here: Universiteitseminaar: Die US, rassisme en die toekoms. An English translation by Sean Jacobs can be accessed here: A fundamental reimagining of who we are.
The prevalence of and fear of gender-based violence really cannot be overstated. The statistics and stories and experiences invade our lives, we encounter it in the news, fiction and non-fiction. For every story we read we raise our guard, we feel more afraid. And on the other side of this [...]
Why Men Hurt Women and Other Reflections on Love, Violence and Masculinity by Kopano Ratele Publication Date: 1st Sep 2022 Publisher: Wits University Press This book seeks to imagine the possibility of a more loving masculinity in a society where structural violence, failures of government and economic inequality underpin much of [...]
Does life writing offer opportunities to reveal something about the nature of care? Leslie Swartz’s award-winning book, How I Lost My Mother (2021), illuminates many insights about the nature of care. The book tells, among other things, the circuitous route by which this prominent South African, Jewish psychologist came to [...]
One day, long after A-rated researcher Prof Leslie Swartz of Stellenbosch University’s (SU’s) Department of Psychology has retired, a practical symbol of his dedication to the disability cause will remain: an elevator in the Krotoa Building on the main campus. Swartz first started advocating for better wheelchair access to the [...]
Prioritising mental health is becoming more important than ever in the face of ongoing global health such as economic and social inequalities but addressing these problems can also make finding solutions seem like an insurmountable task, writes Bronwyne Coetzee and Maria Loades. Read full article here: https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/guestcolumn/opinion-where-do-we-begin-in-making-mental-health-and-wellbeing-a-global-priority-for-all-20221010
