Lou-Marié Kruger
Lou-Marie Kruger is medeprofessor by Departement Sielkunde aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch.
Desire at the end of the white line by Azille Coetzee: video of the book discussion
2025-02-27In Desire at the end of the white line Azille Coetzee examines a range of contemporary Afrikaans popular culture texts to demonstrate how the stories that white Afrikaans women tell about themselves keep them white and apart. In this video, she discusses her research with Lou-Marié Kruger. AB Jantjies was the videographer for LitNet.
Lou-Marié Kruger in conversation with Azille Coetzee about Desire at the end of the white line
2025-01-03"My decision to render my own body, sexual desires and erotic imagination present in this text is an attempt at making the personal and the sexual legible as political and theoretical in the thinking that I am doing."
Internasionale konferensie: Slow intimacy (Langsame intimiteit)
2022-10-11"Vir hierdie konferensie het ons skrywers, digters, kunstenaars, musici, filosowe, literators, politieke wetenskaplikes, sielkundiges, regsgeleerdes en teoloë gevra om kreatief te besin oor intimiteit en die lewegewende en destruktiewe aspekte van die langsame intimiteite waarmee ons altyd besig is."
Video: Cape Town launch of Of Motherhood and Melancholia by Lou-Marié Kruger
2020-03-04The launch of Of Motherhood and Melancholia by Lou-Marié Kruger took place on Thursday 27 February 2020 at The Book Lounge in Cape Town. Pierre de Vos was in conversation with Lou-Marié.
Of Motherhood and Melancholia: a bilingual interview with Lou-Marié Kruger
2020-02-19"Ek het die boek geskryf vir almal wat in versorgingsrolle is en was en sal wees. Ek het die boek geskryf vir hulle wat verantwoordelik is vir die versorgers in die land. Dit is ons almal."
Some notes from the workshop on "slow violence"
2015-03-31Lou-Marié Kruger, psychologist, researcher and convenor of a workshop based on Rob Nixon’s concept of "slow violence", shares notes by some of the presenters of this multi-disciplinary workshop held at Stellenbosch University.
"Freeze this frame." Trauma and the art of remembering and forgetting
2014-10-13 "Enige kunswerk is altyd opeens ’n refleksie van die banaliteit van menswees en ’n soort weerstand teen die noodlot van menswees. Dit laat ons fluktueer tussen vergeet en onthou. Good art at once represents reality and resists it."
Boekgesprek: In a strange room deur Damon Galgut
2014-08-27 "Ek wonder hoe wat sy ons almal laat voel te doen het met ons eie geskiedenisse. Ons almal ken ’n Anna. Sy is ’n ster wat altyd verskiet. ’n Lig wat afgaan. ’n Oop honger mond met ’n dodelike byt as ’n mens te naby kom. ’n Bliksemstraal wat alles spektakulêr kan vernietig."