Announcements
Monday, 24 July 2017 - 3:00pm
Kerry Chance
On 14 Jul, 2017, the police officer who shot seventeen-year-old schoolgirl Nqobile Nzuza during a 2013 street protest was convicted of “murder beyond a reasonable doubt.” The discussion of this article will be framed in terms of this more
Wednesday, 26 July 2017 - 12:00pm
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER Winter Programme in Critical Thought
WiSER’s 2017 Winter Programme in Critical Thought will run from July to September this year. As in 2016, we will design and curate a cluster of afternoon symposia, conferences, seminars and public more
Wednesday, 26 July 2017 - 12:00pm
Jean Comaroff John Comaroff
WiSER invites you to a midday symposium on
THE POLITICS OF DREAD
Commonly defined as fear and anxiety about the future and the possibility of an end to the world, or a world, as we know it, dread conjures up images of collision, more
Thursday, 27 July 2017 - 1:00pm
Jean Comaroff John Comaroff
WiSER and Wits University Press invite you to a launch
THE TRUTH ABOUT CRIMESovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
By Jean Comaroff & John L. Comaroff
n this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a more
Monday, 31 July 2017 - 3:00pm
Keith Breckenridge
This paper examines the recent history of population registration and credit surveillance in Kenya. It argues that the events taking place there are important because they mark out the development of new kinds of administratively created more
Tuesday, 1 August 2017 (All day)
Keith Breckenridge
THE WITS INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH (WiSER) UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP in the Medical Humanities
Re-considering lung disease in South Africa : the politics of data more
Monday, 7 August 2017 - 3:00pm
William Mpofu
I seek to apply and expand Edward Said’s 1982 concept of travelling theory to discuss the state of decoloniality in the South African university now. When theory moves across geographies and travels through human bodies and experiences it 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