Announcements
Friday, 20 February, 2026 - 23:00
Keith Breckenridge
With generous support from Standard Bank for the second phase of the African Trust Infrastructures project, WISER invites applications for 3-year doctoral fellowships to be awarded to outstanding students from Political Science, History, more
Friday, 20 February, 2026 - 23:00
Laura Phillips
WISER invites applications for two-year post-doctoral fellowships to be awarded to outstanding candidates from any appropriate discipline.
The fellows will be expected to support the scholarly work and public events of the Institute, but more
Monday, 23 February, 2026 - 16:00
Kevin Donovan
This paper examines the functioning and implications of a little-known legal trust that forms the financial foundation for M-Pesa. The M-Pesa Holding Company operates a trust fund which is intended to ensure the liquidity of M-Pesa more
Monday, 2 March, 2026 - 16:00
Laura Lambert
Like many countries in the Global South, Sierra Leone has recently embarked on the biometric identification of its citizens and residents in the aim to achieve ‘legal identity for all’ (Sustainable Development Goal 16.9). Given more
Monday, 9 March, 2026 - 16:00
Harsha Man Maharjan
In the Global South, sociotechnical systems such as digital national identification are expanding rapidly. States are using these systems to govern populations in the context of security and e-governance, with support from financial donors more
Monday, 16 March, 2026 - 16:00
Sarah Saddler
This seminar offers an overview of my book project, Theatres of Extraction: Performing Collectivization and Industrial Heritage in South Africa, which examines histories of workers’ and industrial theatre from the late apartheid more
Monday, 30 March, 2026 - 16:00
Justin Willis Radha Upadhyaya & Eric Njuguna
How should we understand 1970s Kenya, with its combination of inequality and relative political stability? This article offers a new perspective on that by following the early history of the Harambee Co-operative Savings and Credit Society more
Monday, 13 April, 2026 - 16:00
Daniel Mwesigwa
Credit scoring is an increasingly central and contested domain of data and AI governance, frequently framed as a neutral and objective method of assessing risk across diverse economic and political contexts. Based on a nine-month more
Monday, 20 April, 2026 - 16:00
Eddie Higgs
Monday, 11 May, 2026 - 16:00
Keren Weitzberg
Monday, 18 May, 2026 - 16:00
Gregory Gondwe
Monday, 25 May, 2026 - 16:00
Nimi Hoffmann
'[D]ecolonization, the postapartheid, is first and foremost, a resumption of interrupted history. A resumption not indeed of some original purities and essences before the Fall, but of interrupted dramas, indigenous and universal dramas; more