2023 Battle for Ideas In African Studies  -  Live stream link

2021 Heritageday Using Storytelling to Remember and Reflect 

2020 Heritageday Webinar with SA Poet Laureate
2020 Diversity a Microcosm of the World

2024 Fostering Peace in Africa: Recap of the Africa Day Memorial Lecture by Prof Ismail Rashid LIVESTREAM Video    

2023 Africa-day Memorial Lecture

2022 Africas Indigenous Knowledge can Lead in Global Knowledge Production

2021 Africa-day Reflection Africas Crisis of Leadership and Lack of Credible Institutions

2019 Africa-day Memorial Lecture African Identity Rooted in Ubuntu

2018 Africa-day Memorial Lecture Explores Future of Statues

2021 Gendered and Humanities Worlds Lecture the Difficulty of Achieving Change

2019 World Reimagined after Feminism and Gender

2024

• 21 November 2024: Is Supporting the National Minimum Wage a GNU Route to Jobs Growth? With Gabriel Crous and Celeste Campher

• 7 November 2024: In Conversation with Carl Niehaus with Car Niehaus

• 17 October 2024: Fixing South Africa’s Intelligence Services with General Eeben Barlow, Dr Edward Mienie, Captain GW Plint, Chaile Seretse, Dr Thys van den Berg, and Joe van der Walt

• 26 September 2024: BRICS and Climate Change with Dr Marina  Magalhaes Barreto Leite da Silva, Jana de Kluiver, Shillpi Ghosh, Bashabi Gupta, Milu Maria Jose, Sergey Kostelyanets, Bianca Naude, Md. Muddassir Quamar, and Hussein Solomon.

• 8 August 2024: Fixing the South African national defence force (SANDF) by Prof Lindy Heinecken, Prof Thomas Mandrup, Dr Moses Khanyile, Dr Evert Jordaan and the Honourable Kobus Marais.

• 5 June 2024: SA Elections Aftermath: Economic, Security and Political Considerations with Philippe Burger, Eeben Barlow, Sanet Solomon, Terence Corrigan, and Marius Roodt.

• 17 April 2024: CGAS hosted a discussion on South African Foreign Policy and the Politics of Genocide in Sudan and Gaza. This brought together a Sudanese International Human Rights Lawyer Mutassim Ali in conversation with Prof Sheldon Gellar an Israeli political scientist.

• 18 March 2024 (hybrid conference): Climate Change and its Impact on African Security. This conference formed part of the ADL and had a number of African scholars joining from Algeria, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and Lesotho.

• 6 March 2024: Elections 2024: South Africa’s Changing Political Landscape with Ambassador Tony Leon, Makona Maja, Michael Atkins and Terence Corrigan 

• 27^th and 28^th February 2024: CGAS together with Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and the African Studies Association of India jointly held a two day conference focusing on Africa’s International Engagements: Opportunities and Challenges.

• 20 February 2024: Realising the South African Dream by Duduzane Zuma

2023

• 6 December, Institutional capacity and institutional integrity Why universities become dysfunctional ‑ and what to do about it by Prof Jonathan Jansen

• 20 October, presentation made to Dutch Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren and members of the Royal Dutch Ministry of Defence. Stellenbosch.

• 27 September, presented lecture at Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, UWC. Title: ‘(Inter)disciplinary and other stories: From women’s peace movements to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’.

• 20 September, keynote address delivered to the ‘International Conference on Counter Terrorism, Technology and Development in Africa’ co-hosted by the Africa Institute of Obuda University, Hungary and the Centre for Military Studies, Stellenbosch University. Title: ‘Terrorism in the Sahel after the coup in Niger’.

• 24 August, paper presented to the seminar, ‘Trajectories of Conflict and Transitional Justice in Africa’ co-hosted by the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State and the Centre for Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Nelson Mandela University.

• 23 August, paper presented to the 2023 Summer School on EU Counter-Terrorism co-hosted by the Jean Monet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism, City University of Dublin and the University of South Wales. Dublin. Title: ‘Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in the Sahel’.

• 21 July, paper presented to the webinar ‘Emerging security threats in Africa’ hosted by the Department of Political Studies (UFS). Title: ‘Terrorism in the Sahel’.

• 4 April, paper presented in UFS Thought Leader Webinar Series. Title: Threats to South Africa’s domestic stability and security challenges’.

2024
Gender Talks schedule and guest speakers

• 23 February 2024 - Prof Deidre Byrne - “Horses are just men extenders” Feminism in Barbie
• 15 March 2024 - Dr Robert Zuber - “Gender and peace keeping’ Atrocity and crime prevention
• 26 April 2024 - Dr Jessica Lyn and Debi Jackson - A little about me: Transgender Awareness
• 17 May 2024 - Prof Grider - Manliness at Sea: The Atlantic Origins of Pacific Pacific Sailors' Masculine Identity
• 23 August 2024 - Dr Tarminder Kaur - Soccer masculinities and Personhood: A South African Subaltern Story
• 20 September 2024 - Prof Marlize Rabe - The prisoner, the breadwinner, the man, the father
• 25 October 2024 - Neo Motaung - African spirituality makes space for my divinity and queerness

2023
The Gender Talks seminar series continued coordinated by Dr Juliet Kamwendo during her term as Acting Programme Director: Gender Studies (1 September 2022-31 August 2023).

• Friday, 24 February 2023: Prof Michelle Gay, ‘Queering Digital (IM) Mortality, or, How to think about mourning and our cyberselves’.
• Friday, 24 March 2023: Dr Bimha Primrose, ‘African women leaders international relations: Spotlight on Ngozi Okonjo Iweala’.
• Friday, 14 April 2023: Prof Hussein Solomon, ‘Being Gay in Al-Sisi’s Egypt’.
• Friday, 19 May 2023: Dr Zamambo Mkhize, ‘Transformation, race, gender and STEM in South African Universities’.
• Friday, 25 August 2023: Prof Pamila Gupta, ‘Fields of Marigold: Makers and weavers of luxury African beaded necklaces’.
• Friday, 22 September 2023: Prof Billy Huff, ‘Thinking Trans/Sex: Erotic Justice and the Trans-Subject’.
• Friday, 13 October 2023: Prof John Grider, ‘Manliness at sea: The Atlantic origins of Pacific sailors’ masculine identity’.

2022
The Gender Talks seminar series continued as a webinar series through the involvement of Dr Nadine Lake.

• Friday, 25 February 2022: Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, ‘You have to pay with your body’: Women’s experiences of sexual assault and rape at the Lesotho-South Africa ‘paqama gates’.
• Friday, 11 March 2022: Prof Deirdre Byrne, ‘Tell the truth, but tell it slant’: Ways of thinking about South African women’s poetry.
• Friday, 22 April 2022: Jessica Lynn, Awareness and support for Transgender Individuals: Working with young people.
• Friday, 20 May 2022: Nonhlanhla Dlamini, Fictions of femininity and masculinity construction in the ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’.
• Friday, 26 August 2022: Dr Stephanie Cawood, Gendered (in)securities and the memorialisation of struggle in postliberation Africa.
• Friday, 9 September 2022: Prof Amanda Gouws, ‘Shadows of Agamben’: Gender-based violence and bare life in South Africa.
• Friday, 28 October 2022: Dr Mias van Jaarsveld, ‘Intersections of religious agency, gender-based violence and African masculinities’.