WISER Seminar Papers

WISER, and its predecessors the Institute for Advanced Study and the African Studies Institute, have hosted an inter-disciplinary seminar in southern African research for almost half a century. Listed here are the papers for which we have information. Much of the data comes from the Wits Wiredspace project, and the papers are stored on their servers. This list is ordered chronologically, extending back to the middle of the 1960s.

Date
15 Apr 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Georges
  • Eyenga
The Invention of 'Kumba Age’. How did individuals' age become dynamic in Cameroon?
8 Apr 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Helene
  • Strauss
Photosynthetic Justice
25 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Rowan
  • Boyson
Air Makes Free: the 1772 Somerset Case and the Poetics of England’s ‘Pure Air’
18 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Rike
  • Sitas et al
Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs : The Rise of on-Demand Logistics and Mobility in Nairobi and Kigali
11 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Lucy Sabin &
  • Jorge Olcina Cantos
Weathering Saharan Dust Beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: A Dialogue Between Climatology and Postcolonial Critical Theories
4 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Ranjit
  • Singh
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures
26 Feb 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Uhuru
  • Phalafala
Cosmologies of Breath
19 Feb 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Marine
  • al Dahdah
Mobile (for) Development: When Digital Giants Take Care of Poor Women
23 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Stephan
  • Scheel
The Politics of Seamless Travel: From matters of care and concern to matters of dissent
16 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sonwabile
  • Mnwana
Beyond the ‘definition paradigm’: Rethinking ‘community’ and mining-led conflict in rural South Africa
2 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sara
  • Byala
A Catalytic Role Untold : Coca-Cola and the Undoing of Apartheid
18 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Simon
  • Hull
An Overview of Frontier Technologies for Land Tenure: How to Avoid the Hype and Focus on What Matters
11 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Tara
  • Weinberg
Bargaining with the state? Black farmers’ petitions for agricultural support, amidst white farmers’ subsidies, 1920s-1970s
4 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Romesh
  • Silva
A population-based estimation and assessment of persons lacking official proof of legal identity
28 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Polly
  • Pallister-Wilkins
“Open Doors” and “Stranger Natives”: white supremacy, racialisation and governing im/mobilities in African Trusts
21 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sean
  • Redding
"The girl is not consulted" : Abduction marriages and gendered traditions of violence
14 Aug 2023 - 2:00pm
  • Kirk
  • Sides
“Astral Forms: Halley’s Comet and Sol Plaatje’s Reading of the “Long White Tail” of Colonial History.”
7 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Andries
  • du Toit
The Land and its people : The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order
31 Jul 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Jonathan
  • Klaaren
Changing Verifiable Identity Across Africa: A Sociotechnical and Political Economy Mapping of Initiatives for Digital Public Infrastructure
8 Jun 2023 - 10:00am
  • Janet
  • Roitman
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide
5 Jun 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Natasha
  • Erlank
Nets of Social Motion: Black Christianity in South African History
22 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Joel
  • Pearson
Center-led Fiscal Reform and the Rise of Regional Power Blocs in a Limpopo Municipality, 1980-2020
15 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Polly
  • Pallister-Wilkins
“Open Doors” and “Stranger Natives”: white supremacy, racialisation and governing im/mobilities in African Trusts
8 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Keren Weitzberg &
  • Radha Upadhyaya
Regulatory efforts to reign in digital credit: Case study of evolving regulation in Kenya
24 Apr 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Clovis
  • Bergere
“We Will Not Follow You Like Sheep”: Literacy, Officialdom, and Generational Politics in the Digital Age
3 Apr 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Christian
  • Lund
An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia
27 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Enrique
  • Martino
Labour recruiters as Lumpen-brokers
20 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Jeanne
  • Bouyat
Looking below racism. Renegotiating authority at school through challenging the policing of hairstyles, an inside view on a girls-led protest in Soweto.
13 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Cecilia
  • Passanti
  • & Marie-Emmanuelle
  • Pommerolle
The (un) making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy
6 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Ricardo
  • Soares de Oliveira
Researching Africa and the Offshore World
27 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Gustav
  • Kalm
Capitalizing on competing property titles in the Simandou iron ore reserves in Guinea:investor-state arbitration vs host-stranger relations
20 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sakiru
  • Adebayo
The Memory Flâneur in Teju Cole’s Open City
13 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Wendy
  • Hunter
Denationalization in the Dominican Republic: Trapping Victims in the State’s Administrative Maze
7 Nov 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Merve
  • Fejzula
Publics, Counterpublics, Black Publics: The Growth of a Negritude Public in the Twentieth Century
31 Oct 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Willemien
  • Froneman
On Being Touched by Boeremusiek: Listening as Haptic Event
24 Oct 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Anooradha
  • Siddiqi
Architecture and History in a Refugee Camp
17 Oct 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Raff
  • Donelson
Acknowledging Natural Punishment
3 Oct 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Caio
  • Simoes de Araujo
Colonial Carnivalesque: Transgressing Normativities and Gender Performance in Mozambique and Angola
26 Sep 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Casey
  • Golomski
Mandela's Nurse
19 Sep 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Srila
  • Roy
Dissonant intimacies: South-South asymmetries, coloniality and failure
5 Sep 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Stephane
  • Robolin
Imported Black Books, Radical Undesirability, and Comparative Reading Under Apartheid
29 Aug 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Ran
  • Greenstein
Anti-colonial resistance in South Africa and Israel/Palestine: comparative dimensions
22 Aug 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Steve
  • Davis
The Bitter Aloe Project: Applying Advanced Machine Learning to the Truth and Reconciliation Archive
18 Aug 2022 - 12:00pm
  • Asli
  • Telli
The politics of cooperative movements in three continents: Mesopotomia Coop in Rojava, Mondragon in Basque Country and ASCOOP in Colombia
15 Aug 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Seth
  • Koven
Born White: Race, Religion, and the Conscientious Objector to Smallpox Vaccination in Britain and Natal
1 Aug 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Upamanyu Pablo
  • Mukherjee
Finding Nemo: Energy, Justice and Transition
6 Jun 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Radhika
  • Singha
The Ends of War : Homecoming for the Indian Soldier and Follower, 1914–21
30 May 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Sarah
  • Nuttall
On Pluviality: Reading for Rain in Namwali Serpell’sThe Old Drift
23 May 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Jordanna
  • Matlon
A Man among Other Men: The Crisis of Black Masculinity in Racial Capitalism
16 May 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Beth Goldblatt &
  • Shireen Hassim
‘Grass in the cracks’: Gender, social reproduction and climate justice in the Xolobeni struggle.

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