Announcements
Monday, 19 April, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Efthimios Karayiannides
Orlando Patterson’s sociological and historical studies of slavery have had an enormous impact on the humanities and social sciences since the publication of his seminal Slavery and Social Death in 1982. The concept of “social death”, in more
Wednesday, 21 April, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Achille Mbembe
WISER PUBLIC POSITIONS SERIES 2021
FANON AFTER FANON
From February to October of 2021, WiSER’s PUBLIC POSITIONS Series will present ten public thematic dialogues on the new generation of Fanon studies. Particular emphasis will be placed more
Friday, 30 April, 2021 - 17:00Add to Calendar
Najibha Deshmukh
Call for Papers
Hinterlands
A Project in the Rural, Literary and Environmental Humanities
Hosted by the ASCA Amsterdam and WISER, 3-4 June 2021, online
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and WISER are co-convening an more
Monday, 3 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Albert Mushai
Wednesday, 5 May, 2021 - 17:30Add to Calendar
Noah Tamarkin
WISER invites you to the launch of Noah Tamarkin's Genetic Afterlives
Zoom Event
The author will be in discussion with Nolwazi MKhwanazi, Achille Mbembe and Kaushik Sunder Rajan.
In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black more
Monday, 10 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Janeke Thumbran
This paper examines how the ‘coloured question’ was initially formulated through the biological essence that underpinned this racial category. The paper makes two arguments: first that the essence of this category – represented through more
Monday, 24 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Lindelwa Dalamba
Presented by Lindelwa Dalamba, Philip Burnett, Roe-Min Kok and Yvonne Liao
Recent years have seen intensive critical engagement across the humanities with questions of decoloniality (e.g. Quijano 2000, Mignolo 2011, Mignolo and Walsh 2018 more
Monday, 31 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Rachel Sandwell
In the late 1990s, as the hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began, stories of past abuse, including sexual violence, within the exiled camps of the African National Congress (ANC) emerged. Despite women more