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Next WISH 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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Brutalisme
1 month 1 week
Writing South Africa’s Prisons into History
1 month 3 weeks
Reincarnating Marechera: notes on a speculative archive
1 month 3 weeks
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Delirium in intensive care: violence, loss and humanity
1 month 3 weeks
Migration control, temporal irregularity and waiting
1 month 3 weeks
Imperialism Above and Below the Water Line: Making Space Up (and Down) in a Colonial Port City
1 month 3 weeks
Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary
1 month 3 weeks
Genetic afterlives: Black Jewish indigeneity in South Africa
1 month 3 weeks
Black Diamonds in the Rough
1 month 3 weeks
Johnny Fingo: war as work on the Eastern Cape Frontier
1 month 3 weeks
The Policeman, Reconsidered
1 month 3 weeks
The Rickshaw Puller and the Zulu Policeman: Zulu Men, Work, and Clothing in Colonial Natal
1 month 3 weeks
‘The Black House’, or How the Zulus Became Jews
1 month 3 weeks
‘Carpe DM’: Seizing the Afropolitan Day
1 month 3 weeks
Thinking from the Southern Ocean
1 month 3 weeks
Antarctica and Africa: Narrating alternate futures
1 month 3 weeks
Stories of migration and belonging
1 month 3 weeks
Ethnographies of Global Policing
1 month 3 weeks
Unmournable bodies, embodied monuments and bodily truths: rethinking reconciliation in Zulu Love Letter
1 month 3 weeks
Diving into the Slave Wreck: The São José Paquete d’Africa and Yvette Christiansë’s Imprendehora
1 month 3 weeks
Pluvial Time/Wet Form
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‘The hardness of the times and the dearness of all the necessaries of life’: class and consumption in bilingual nineteenth-century newspapers
1 month 3 weeks
Social Im/mobilities in Africa: Ethnographic Approaches
1 month 3 weeks
Navigating the African Archive–A Conversation between Tamar Garb and Hlonipha Mokoena
1 month 3 weeks
3. Mysterious Moves of Revolution: Spectres of Black Power, Futures of Postcoloniality
1 month 3 weeks
Chapter 7. Crisis, Work and the Meanings of Mobility on the Zimbabwean-South African Border
1 month 3 weeks
Young families: gender, sexuality and care
1 month 3 weeks
État documentaire et identification mathématique : la dimension théorique du gouvernement biométrique africain
1 month 3 weeks
Young Nigerians rise up to demand a different kind of freedom
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