Announcements
Monday, 27 August, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Caio Simoes
In 1952, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) agreed to establish a commission to study the “racial situation” in South Africa, a topic that had been raised in the organization since 1946, when India first brought the “treatment more
Monday, 10 September, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Euclides Goncalves
Monday, 17 September, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Wendy Kline
How was pain understood in the 1970s? ... As this article will demonstrate, gender plays a key role. Current studies show that women both experience and tend to report more pain
than men. Yet they are “more likely to be less well treated more
Thursday, 20 September, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Naranjo Rodrigo
Under the emergence of modernity, captivity, or more precisely, its dynamic traces a living experience of the new; the production or invention of the americas as the new. Today, captivity is one of the major forms of the global (prisons, more
Monday, 1 October, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Thato Masiangoako
South Africa’s legal system maintains its legitimacy despite the commonplace experiences of injustice that take place at the hands of the criminal justice system. This paper looks at the experiences of migrants, community activists and more
Monday, 8 October, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Alf Gunvald
One of the foundational mythologies of sociological Eurocentrism pivots on the proposition that political modernity originated in the West. On this reading, the democratic nation-state, and institutions such as citizenship and civil more
Monday, 15 October, 2018 - 15:00Add to Calendar
Melanie Boehi
This paper argues that botanical garden should be reframed as social gardens. As such, they provide a suitable starting point for reimagining multispecies relationships which enable us to “stay with the trouble” (Haraway 2016) of our time more
Monday, 22 October, 2018 - 13:00Add to Calendar
Michael Neocosmos
If, as has been pointed out, there is a close subjective connection between liberalism as a political philosophy (of freedom) and colonialism, could it not also be suggested that there is, correspondingly, a close connection between 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