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
9 Apr 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Renee
  • van der Wiel
Doing research that does something: The trope of the exceptional knowledge-producing medical doctor
19 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Claudia
  • Gastrow
The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Rehousing and Class in Luanda
12 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Sarah
  • Wild
The lifecast cast: an ethico-legal inquiry
5 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
What happened to the theory of African capitalism?
26 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Antonio
  • Tomas
Urban Nostalgia: Colonial traces in the postcolonial city of Luanda
19 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Saarah
  • Jappie
Baas of the Kramat: Muslim place and belonging in 19th and 20th century Cape Town
12 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Simamkele
  • Dlakavu
“Say No, Black Woman”: The Giant is Falling and the erasure of Black women in South Africa
23 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Srila
  • Roy
Queer activism as governmentality: regulating lesbian lives in India
16 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Thato
  • Masiangoako
The shaping of legal consciousness through the experience of short-term incarceration
2 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Darja
  • Djordjevic
Historicizing Public Oncology in Rwanda: From Geographies of Incidence to Onco-Nationhood (1915-2015)
18 Sep 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Faeeza
  • Ballim
Neoliberalism and the techno-politics of Apartheid
4 Sep 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Benson A
  • Mulemi
Popular Theorizing on albinism and the human in Eastern Africa: Exploration of Tanzanian experience.
28 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Jim
  • Campbell
History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement
14 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Juan
  • Obarrio
private/public government of communities
7 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • William
  • Mpofu
Decoloniality as Travelling Theory: Or What Decoloniality is not
31 Jul 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
The single source of truth about Kenyans : collateral mysteries, credit information and Safaricom
24 Jul 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Kerry
  • Chance
Sacrifice After Mandela: Debts of Liberation Among South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation
12 Jun 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Grieve
  • Chelwa
Does economics have an ‘Africa Problem’? Some data and preliminary thoughts
5 Jun 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Robyn
  • Bloch
The apartheid historian’s struggle: black betrayal and its effects
29 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Achille
  • Mbembe
Future Knowledges
22 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Cynthia
  • and John
  • Kros
  • Wright
"You can write and remember but we are simply izithunguthu'"
15 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Daniel
  • Magaziner
African Architecture, Education and Possibility in the 1960s
8 May 2017 - 5:00pm
  • Lucy
  • Allais
‘Is there Western Philosophy?’ a discussion with Lucy Allais and Eusebius McKaiser
24 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Edgar
  • Taylor
The Tank Hill Party: Generational Politics and Decolonization in East Africa
10 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Gregory
  • Dowd
AMfecaneRICA, 1650-1850: What can Historians of Native America Learn from Southern Africanists?
3 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Richard
  • Pithouse
Manichean Delirium (In the Time of Jacob Zuma)
27 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Candice
  • Jansen
VULNERABILITIES OF THE IMAGE: Cedric Nunn & Coloured Family in Struggle
20 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Bettina
  • Malcomess
Moving Image as chronotope of the Colonial Imagination
13 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Nompumelelo Zinhle
  • Manzini
African Conceptions of Person as Gendered, Ableist and Anti-queer
6 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Andreas
  • Kalyvas
Carl Schmitt's Postcolonial Imagination
27 Feb 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Rita
  • Kesselring
Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Book discussion and launch
20 Feb 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Marielle
  • Debos
Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation
7 Nov 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Lumkile
  • Mondi
From proprietorship, public companies to pyramid ownership and control: The evolution of the Financialisation of the South African Economy
31 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Victoria
  • Collis-Buthelezi
Other Universals: India, Africa, the Caribbean and Un-national Thought of the Southern Hemisphere
24 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Emery
  • Kalema
The Mulele rebellion (D.R. Congo) and the politics of forgetting
17 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Christi
  • Kruger
White on the margin: post-apartheid white poverty and the politics of homogeneity
10 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Sarah Emily
  • Duff
‘From Young Adults to Teenagers: Sex Education Manuals and the Making of Modern Youth in Apartheid South Africa’
3 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Jamie
  • Miller
An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and its Search for Survival
26 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Peter
  • Geschiere
Homosexuality, Witchcraft, Freemasonry - Postcolonial Obsessions in Cameroon and elsewhere
19 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Nancy
  • Rose Hunt
A Nervous State
12 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Shaun
  • Franklin
"Worse than Apartheid?" Measuring educational progress since democracy
5 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Khumisho
  • Moguerane
Everyday identities, formal schooling and the practice of nationalism in Bechuanaland in the early twentieth century
5 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
Aadhaar and the superindex : India's UID and the politics of database normalization
29 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Carolyn
  • Dinshaw
Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making.
15 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Linda
  • Gordon
Unemployed activism in the 1930s : long-term structural change, gender and the meanings of independence
8 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Drew
  • Thompson
ID'ing Mozambique's Post-Independence Development and History from 1975 to 1993
4 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Noah
  • Tamarkin
Becoming Genetic Jews: Lemba Political Histories of Racial, Religious, and Cultural Difference in Twentieth-Century South Africa
25 Jul 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Sam
  • Daly
Sworn on the Gun: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.
6 Jun 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Ruth
  • Sacks
Object Agencies: Congolese artifacts as exhibition organisms
30 May 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Taiwo Adetunji
  • Osinubi
Provincializing Slavery: Abolition, Law, Slave Subjects

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