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