GUEST SPEAKER: PROFESSOR PUMLA GOBODO-MADIKIZELA

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, the 2024 Templeton Prize Laureate, is the South African National Research Foundation’s Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma and the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ) at Stellenbosch University. She has won several academic awards, which include the Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award; the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship; an honorary Doctor of Theology from the Friedrich-Schiller University; and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Rhodes University. Awards for her critically acclaimed book A Human Being Died that Night, which has been reprinted as a Mariner Classic, are the Alan Paton Prize in South Africa, and the Christopher Award in the United States. Her other books include Narrating our Healing: Perspectives on Healing Trauma as co-author, Memory, Narrative and Forgiveness: Perspectives on the Unfinished Journeys of the Past, as co-editor; Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Repetition: A Global Dialogue on Historical Trauma and Memory, as editor; and editor of a collection of essays on Jewish-German dialogue, History, Trauma and Shame: Engaging the Past Through Second Generation Dialogue.