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
4 Apr 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Danny
  • Herwitz
Cultural Property and The Question of Repatriation
28 Mar 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Jacob
  • Dlamini
The Archive Machine: The Truth Commission and the Archaeology of Apartheid
14 Mar 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Sanyu
  • Mojola
Designing a syndemic risk environment: racial containment and health in historical context.
7 Mar 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Sylvia
  • Croese
Twilight governance: local power, politics and participation in Luanda
28 Feb 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
Revolutionary mathematics : risk, class and the financial overthrow of mining capitalism
22 Nov 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Madalitso
  • Phiri
The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy.
15 Nov 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Meredith
  • Root-Bernstein
What is degradation?
8 Nov 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Temba
  • Carmel
  • Middelmann &
  • Rawhani
Grounding the paradox of cohesion and contestation in public space
25 Oct 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Irvin Sifiso
  • Jiyane
Experts of the Surface and Underground: Cartography and Geological Knowledge in the Territorial Construction of the Witbank Labour District, c. 1899-1930s
18 Oct 2021 - 4:00pm
  • David
  • Kearabetswe
  • Coplan &
  • Moopelo
Magic mountain: ‘The ancestors cannot be relocated’
11 Oct 2021 - 4:00pm
  • James
  • Merron
(Hetero)Topologies of an Eastern Cape Province Nature Reserve
4 Oct 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Véra
  • Ehrenstein
Planetary forests: Remote sensing, field sciences and carbon markets in Central Africa
27 Sep 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Jeff
  • Maskovsky
Laboring for whiteness: The rise of Trumpism and what it tells us about racial and gendered capitalism in the United States
13 Sep 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Christopher
  • Tounsel
The Troubled Promised Land: Political Theology in South Sudan
6 Sep 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Kirk
  • Sides
Animist Eco-logics: The Speculative Ecosystems of Amos Tutuola
30 Aug 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Janeke
  • Thumbran
The Formulation of the 'Coloured Question' (1932-1950)
23 Aug 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Srila
  • Roy
From travel to arrival: mapping intersectionality’s landings in the Global South 
14 Aug 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Nicodemus Fru
  • Awasom
POSTPONED Metropolitan Factor in the Crisis of Nation-Building in Africa: The British Incomplete Decolonization of the British Southern Cameroons
2 Aug 2021 - 4:00pm
  • William
  • Beinart
Rhodes, violence and the statue at Oriel College, Oxford
21 Jun 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Edward
  • Higgs
Criminal Faces: Beauty, Race and Criminality in Western Thought and the Development of Digital Profiling
14 Jun 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Mark
  • Hunter
The Labour-drug Question in precarious times: The rise of Heroin and Xanax
7 Jun 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Sharad
  • Chari
‘Interlocking Transactions’: Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’
31 May 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Rachel
  • Sandwell
The Impasses of Politics: Sexual Violence and the ANC in Exile
24 May 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Lindelwa
  • Dalamba
Fostering Decoloniality in Music: From Local Archives to Global Dialogue
17 May 2021 - 3:00pm
  • Stephen
  • Sparks
Modernist/Modernising South Africa
10 May 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Albert
  • Mushai
The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa
19 Apr 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Efthimios
  • Karayiannides
Orlando Patterson’s analyses of slavery as an intervention into debates around the political economy of the “Third World” in the 1970s
12 Apr 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Siphiwe
  • Dube
The New Religious Political Right in South Africa
29 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Crispian
  • Olver
What we can learn from the data about metropolitan political economies?
23 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Lucy
  • Allais
Freedom, Property and Markets
15 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Ariella Aïsha
  • Azoulay
Potential History - Unlearning Imperialism
8 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Charlie
  • Piot
Book discussion of The Fixer : Visa Lottery Chronicles
1 Mar 2021 - 4:00pm
  • Dennis
  • Davis
Funding of the Vaccine and the general implications of budget 2021 for inclusive growth and reduction of poverty
2 Nov 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Ayesha
  • Omar
Ibn Rushd’s _The Decisive Treatise_: A Text for Political Reform
26 Oct 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Ngaka
  • Mosiane
Landscapes of peripheral and displaced urbanisms
19 Oct 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Hilary
  • Lynd
Living Together: The ANC, the Soviet Union, and the National Question.
12 Oct 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Karl
  • von Holdt
Critically Engaged Sociology at SWOP : Four decades of South/North concept formation
5 Oct 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Quinn
  • Slobodian
South Africa and the Neoliberals
21 Sep 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Megan
  • Vaughan
Metabolic drift? food, fertiliser and the biology of history in Malawi
14 Sep 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Paul
  • Gilroy
Rereading Stuart Hall on Race
7 Sep 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Kaushik
  • Sunder Rajan
Just Health? : Law, Constitutionalism and Postcolonial Dis-ease
24 Aug 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Jean
  • Comaroff
After Labor
17 Aug 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Priya
  • Lal
Building National Universities and Making Human Resources in Southeastern Africa
3 Aug 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Alexandra
  • Parker
Spouse in the house: Household structures and roles, gender, and quality of life in the Gauteng City-Region,South Africa
27 Jul 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Stefan
  • Ouma
From the Plantation to the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Other Economic Geographies
20 Jul 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Adam
  • Tooze
Panel discussion of Crashed
25 May 2020 - 3:00pm
  • Lauren
  • Paremoer
Protect the poor but don’t meddle with those who can pay: Debating solidarity in the context of the NHI
18 May 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Joanna
  • Woods
Contemporary Speculative Fiction in Southern Africa
11 May 2020 - 4:00pm
  • Jeremy
  • Seekings
International actors and social protection in Africa, 2000-2020
4 May 2020 - 3:00pm
  • Divine
  • Fuh
On Monastic Seclusion: Making knowledge from an African University

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