Announcements
Wednesday, 23 August 2017 - 1:00pm
Srimati Basu
The Governing Intimacies Project invites you to a seminar by Srimati Basu
Cures and Side Effects: Feminist Reform and Law in India
This talk considers the promise of governance feminism to be a primary remedy to address gender more
Monday, 28 August 2017 - 3:00pm
Jim Campbell
Nations, as Isabel Hofmeyr long ago observed, are forged, in part, from words. Many, perhaps most, of those words are in the nature of history, stories of the past that provide explanation, justification, a charter for present more
Tuesday, 29 August 2017 - 5:00pm
Shireen Hassim
In the second half of 2017, WiSER will launch a Medical Memoirs series as part of its medical humanities programme. The series will consist of several events in a range of formats, from discussions of individual texts with their authors, more
Thursday, 31 August 2017 - 1:00pm
Keith Breckenridge
The next meeting of this reading group will be on Thursday, 31 August, from 1 - 2.30pm in the Wiser seminar room. We will be reading Douglas Holmes' Economy of Words (2014). Anyone interested in joining this discussion should please more
Monday, 4 September 2017 - 3:00pm
Popular Theorizing on albinism and the human in Eastern Africa: Exploration of Tanzanian experience.
Benson A Mulemi
Partial or complete absence of the melanin pigment in the skin, eyes, and hair constitute varied cultural expressions and labels denoting albinos or persons with albinism (PWA). Popular cross-cultural references to albinism and albinos in more
Wednesday, 6 September 2017 - 8:30am
Sarah Nuttall
08:30-08:45 Introduction: Sarah Nuttall
08:45-09:45 Lenore Manderson: Nerve: Conversations with Lenore
(discussant: Victoria Hume)
09:45-10:00 Break
10:00-10:45 Glen Ncube: “Medical Biographies”
10: more
Thursday, 14 September 2017 - 11:30pm
Didier Fassin
The School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, announces open applications for the 2018-2019 Summer Program in Social Science. Conducted in collaboration with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic more
Monday, 18 September 2017 - 3:00pm
Faeeza Ballim
It is well-established in the South African historiography that the apartheid government adopted a new “language of legitimation” (Posel, 1984) in the aftermath of the 1976 student uprisings. In this reformulation of authoritarian more
Monday, 2 October 2017 - 3:00pm
Darja Djordjevic
This paper examines the various types of experimentation that are built into the practice of oncology within Rwanda’s developing national infrastructure, with a focus on historicizing malignancy there by examining trajectories of research more
Monday, 9 October 2017 - 3:00pm
Bodhi Kar
Between 1919 and 1931, the question of unfree “native labour” was constantly shuttled and moved around between various agencies of the League of Nations. Since the formation of the International Labour Organization in 1919 and the first more