WISER Seminar Papers

WISER is very pleased to host the Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities. The presentations for the remainder of the current academic semester are listed below. WISER, and its predecessor institutions the Institute for Advanced Study and the African Studies Institute, have hosted similar seminars that date back to the late 1960s. The archive of those events, and the past papers of the current semester, is available here. A printable version of the seminar schedule for the current year is available here.
  • The WISH seminar will continue to be held on-line for the foreseeable future; for the details of the Zoom meetings, please sign up for email notices at https://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail.
  • Participants must read the paper prior to the seminar.
  • The paper will typically only be available on the Friday preceding the seminar.
  • Date Author/s Title
    Wednesday, 26 February, 2025 - 16:00
    • Silvia
    • Masiero
    On ID, Solidarity and Resistance
    Wednesday, 5 March, 2025 - 16:00
    • Courtney
    • Hallink
    Reparative histories, the welfare state, and the future of income assistance for working-age adults in South Africa
    Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 - 16:00
    • Talja
    • Blokland
    Trusting public? Preliminary thoughts on urban seclusion, trust and public space
    Wednesday, 19 March, 2025 - 16:00
    • Natalie
    • Brinham
    Citizenship and Genocide Cards : IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
    Wednesday, 26 March, 2025 - 16:00
    • Dambala Kutela
    • & Nicky Nicholls
    Trust as a decision under ambiguity: Does race matter?
    Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 - 12:30
    • Sophie
    • Chevalier
    LUNCH TIME SEMINAR | Purchasing power as a promise : Anthropological views on « purchasing power »
    Wednesday, 16 April, 2025 - 16:00
    • Keith
    • Breckenridge
    Maitland and the unification of the theory of trust
    Wednesday, 23 April, 2025 - 16:00
    • Bidisha
    • Chaudhuri
    The DPI Approach: Infrastructuring Indian vision of Development
    Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 - 16:00
    • Pariroo
    • Rattan
    The personalisation of Aadhaar
    Wednesday, 7 May, 2025 - 16:00
    • Zehra
    • Hashmi
    Pakistan's kinship based population register
    Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00
    • Luke
    • de Noronha
    Digital identification in Jamaica
    Wednesday, 28 May, 2025 - 16:00
    • Fatima
    • Moolla
    TBC