Announcements
Monday, 19 May, 2025 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series
Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South
Riley Snorton will speak on
On the Resurgence of Pioneer Species
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Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00
Luke de Noronha
While biometric national identification systems have been examined in interesting ways in other postcolonial settings, notably on the African continent and in India, questions over state/citizenship, economy/economisation, and freedom/ more
Wednesday, 28 May, 2025 - 16:00
Zehra Hashmi
Drawing on archival material and oral histories, this chapter examines Pakistan's national identity database’s most immediate historical predecessor: Pakistan’s first paper-based population register. The first more
Monday, 2 June, 2025 - 00:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER’s very successful online seminar series:
‘Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities – Conversations from the Global South’
pauses for two weeks on April 21 and 28 which are public holidays more
Monday, 2 June, 2025 - 12:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER is proud to announce a new online seminar series
Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South.
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
February to June 2025
In these calamitous times, more
Monday, 2 June, 2025 - 17:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER’s very successful online seminar series ‘Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities – Conversations from the Global South’ pauses for one week as Wits University is on break. We commence again with Haripriya more
Wednesday, 4 June, 2025 - 16:00
Keith Breckenridge
Drawing out the competing legal models for the development of trust from Henry Maine and FW Maitland, this paper shows that while almost all of the English-speaking countries followed the path of self-regulated fiduciaries mapped out by more
Thursday, 26 June, 2025 - 17:00
Najibha Deshmukh
The Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water series, hosted by WiSER and Wits Water, starts up again next week, after the University break and the series of long weekends.
We’d like to keep building the impetus behind the more