Announcements
Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 (All day)Add to Calendar
Bongani Madondo
● Telegraph to the Sky •Towards Afrofuturism 3.0.Symposium co-hosted by WiSER & the Black Speculative Arts Movement
17-18th October 2018WiSER seminar room
Convenors: Bongani Madondo and Reynaldo Anderson.
Programme available more
Thursday, 18 October, 2018 - 12:30Add to Calendar
Keith Breckenridge
WiSER invites you to a launch and book discussion of a new book by Anne Mager & Phiko Velelo
The House of Tshatshu -- Power, Politics and Chiefs North-West of the Great Kei River, c1818 - 2018.
Catherine Burns will be in discussion more
Thursday, 18 October, 2018 - 13:00Add to Calendar
Isabel Hofmeyr
Oceanic Humanities, WiSER and Centre for Indian Studies in Africa invite you to a book talk by
Thomas F. McDow
Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean
Thursday October 18 at 1:15pm – 3pm
Venue : Humanities Graduate more
Monday, 22 October, 2018 - 13:00Add to Calendar
Richard Pithouse
This contribution offers some observations with regard to political identities in a pop- ular movement largely based in the shantytowns of Durban, South Africa. It seeks to examine, via more than a decade of immersion and research, one more
Thursday, 25 October, 2018 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Zanele Muholi
WiSER invites you to a launch and book discussion of a new book by Zanele Muholi (Artist in Residence at WiSER)
Somnyama Ngonyama
Zanele Muholi
Ntozakhe ll, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2016
The long-awaited monograph Somnyama Ngonyama, a more
Monday, 29 October, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
T. Dunbar Moodie
The transition in South Africa from apartheid to a constitutional democracy with equal rights for all has been described and celebrated in innumerable accounts. The best overview is probably Patti Waldmeir’s, Anatomy of a Miracle. What is more
Tuesday, 1 January, 2019 - 09:00Add to Calendar
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER is delighted and honoured to announce that Professor Richard Rottenburg will join the Institute as Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies from January 2019.
Professor Rottenburg has been awarded one of Wits more