Announcements
Thursday, 25 April, 2024 - 14:00
Keith Breckenridge
Keith Breckenridge with commentary from Ayesha Omar
Historians of the medieval law of trust have pointed to its origins in the religious obligations of waqf that the English crusaders brought home from Jerusalem in the 13th century. more
Monday, 6 May, 2024 - 16:00
Euclides Goncalves
Monday, 20 May, 2024 - 16:00
Awadhendra Sharan
My presentation shall focus on practices and technologies through which air was sought to be rendered ‘pure’ in cities in colonial India. In particular, I shall draw attention to hygienic discourses that prioritized ‘ more
Monday, 20 May, 2024 - 17:00
Sarah Nuttall
Dear participants
Our final five sessions in the Breathing In series are below for ease of diarizing. We look forward to seeing you there.
May 6: Euclides Goncalves: Revisiting the Dead Archive more
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 12:00
Achille Mbembe
The staff and students at WISER would like to congratulate our colleague, Achille Mbembe, on the award of the Holberg Prize, the most prestigious international prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We are thrilled that his more
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 16:00
Tunde Okunoye
Monday, 24 June, 2024 - 16:00
Gala Rexer
In this exploratory paper, I invite you to visit the Edmonton Waste Incinerator in North London. Since 2020, climate justice and Black Lives Matter activists have been campaigning against the expansion of this already polluting more
Friday, 12 July, 2024 - 17:00
Keith Breckenridge
Short programme | Full programme, with abstracts
Thursday, Jul 11, 2024: Day 1
9:00 to 9:30 : Introductions
9:30 - 11:30 : more
Thursday, 25 July, 2024 - 17:00
Yousseff Mnaili
24th & 25th July 2024
WiSER, Johannesburg
Call for Papers
Delegation – or indirect rule - is ubiquitous. Leaders at the state level rely on a network of actors, including local and national bureaucrats, judges, central bankers more
Thursday, 1 August, 2024 - 12:00
Sarah Nuttall
A new seminar series running from February to June 2024
Recent work on infrastructures, atmospheres and the biospheric shifts associated with conditions of the Anthropocene have relied on rendering newly vivid those aspects of the social more
Wednesday, 30 October, 2024 - 12:00
Achille Mbembe
Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Innovation Foundation for Democracy
On October 30 and 31, 2024, WISER and the Foundation will be hosting a public forum in Johannesburg, South Africa to consider the problems more
Thursday, 1 October, 2026 - 00:00
Keith Breckenridge
Over the last twenty years WiSER has established itself as the leading interdisciplinary research institute in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the African continent. From 2023, with generous support from Standard Bank, the more