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Next Trust Seminar
The schedule of the Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities for the current semester is now complete. (The papers presented over the last few years are here). If you would like to present a paper in the next term please submit the details to http://wiser.wits.ac.za/WISHproposal and we will respond to you.
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Useful On-line Research Databases
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Towards a unified theory of Trust
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The Turning Liquid of the Real
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Introduction
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Contagion
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Passing On, Passing Around, and Passing Through: Urban Inheritance in South Africa as Circulation
4 weeks 19 hours
On Technicisation: How to Create a Zone of Decolonial Translation?
4 weeks 19 hours
Wet and Dry Hinterlands: Pluviality and Drought in J. M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K
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Translated Authorship and Language Futures
4 weeks 19 hours
Scientific racism: Histories, legacies and ethics Steve Biko Bioethics Lecture, 12 September 2023
4 weeks 19 hours
African Studies, a Journal on a Fault Line
4 weeks 19 hours
Writing While Female: Merit, Market and Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing in South Africa
4 weeks 19 hours
La prison ailleurs. Enquête sur les fonctions de l’enfermement carcéral au Cameroun
4 weeks 19 hours
Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press
4 weeks 19 hours
Concrete Suggestions for Liberated Media
4 weeks 19 hours
B.W. Vilakazi, Ithongo Lokwazi: The Muse of Knowledge
4 weeks 19 hours
Brutalism
4 weeks 19 hours
‘Bahari Imekufa, The Sea is Dead’: Local Perceptions of Ocean Health and Ocean Wealth among Fishers on the Kenyan Coast
1 month 1 week
Within the Landscape: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading of Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning
1 month 1 week
Wits University: Leading Africa in global university rankings
1 month 2 weeks
Contesting a legendary legacy: A century of reflection on Raymond Dart and the Taung skull |
1 month 2 weeks
Bringing Formalisation ‘to the People’: Deceased Estates as a Post-Apartheid Legal Field
1 month 2 weeks
Archiving Environmental Change: Mapping a Network
1 month 2 weeks
She Said—Feminist Critiques of Sociobiology Begin in 1975
1 month 2 weeks
The Nightwatchman: Essays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa
1 month 2 weeks
Witness to AIDS (2005) de Edwin Cameron: ética del cuidado y la memorialización del VIH y sida en Sudáfrica
1 month 2 weeks
On Art, Contagion and Immunity
1 month 2 weeks
Stories of home: Aging, intergenerational relations and dementia in Julia Martin’s The Blackridge House: A memoir (2019)
1 month 2 weeks
Establishing a Broad Church in the Bantustans:The ANC and the Political Transition in Lebowa, 1990–1994
1 month 2 weeks
National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile
1 month 2 weeks
Nongqayi / Nongqai
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