Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, recipient of the 2024 Templeton Prize, will deliver the annual Von Hügel Lecture at St Edmund’s College, giving a talk entitled "Bearing Witness: Responsibility, Recognition, and the Quest for Repair."
The Von Hügel Lecture will take place in person at St Edmund’s College (Garden Room) on Tuesday, 12 May 2026 at 5.30pm. Given the availability of space, we would like to invite anyone interested in attending to register by 5 May.
A small drinks reception will follow in the Garden Room.
All are welcome.
About Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela: Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is the Director of the Centre for the study of the After of Violence and the Reparative Quest, and the South African National Research Chair (SARChI) in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma at Stellenbosch University. Her work focuses on trauma studies and the psychoanalytic interpretation of remorse and forgiveness. She holds a B-rating from the National Research Foundation and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and an honorary member of the South African Psychoanalytic Association. Her recent honours include The Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award (2021), a Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship (2020-2021), and honorary doctorates from Rhodes University and Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Since 2017, she has been a Research Associate and Global Scholar at Queen’s University, Belfast.
St Edmund's College
Mount Pleasant
Cambridge, CB3 0BN
United Kingdom