Announcements
Monday, 26 September, 2022 - 16:00
Casey Golomski
This chapter from a creative nonfiction book in progress tells a story of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island prison nurse in her own words. Mrs. N.Z. was the first sister of rank hired to administer care to prisoners there, including Mr more
Wednesday, 28 September, 2022 - 18:00
Achille Mbembe
WiSER invites you to an online lecture in our PUBLIC POSITIONS SERIES by Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London)
“Cloud Studies: Atmospheric Violence”
Airborne toxins, like the colored smoke in a wind more
Thursday, 29 September, 2022 - 13:00
Richard Rottenburg
WISER warmly invites you to a discussion on
Technicisation and (De)colonisation
This session discusses a few questions related to the development of new technologies and their circulation around the world. How are technologies more
Saturday, 1 October, 2022 - 00:00
Cheikh BA
In this episode of The WiSER Podcast, Cheikh BA discusses the Senegal River as an intense node of knowledge making. He discusses how those who live alongside it observe, name and think about its flows, quantities, evolutions, water paths more
Monday, 3 October, 2022 - 16:00
Caio Simoes de Araujo
Gender as a concept has been increasingly engaged in Southern African history. Much of this scholarship has studied the making of gender regimes over time, the ways in which men and women are historically situated as ever-changing more
Monday, 17 October, 2022 - 16:00
Raff Donelson
A natural punishment occurs when an agent commits a wrong, and then, as a result of this wrong, faces a significant harm that is not caused by anyone seeking retribution against the agent for their wrong. When the wrong in question is a more
Thursday, 20 October, 2022 - 12:00
Natasha Erlank
This is partly a paper about Christianity and its influence on black family life in the first half of the twentieth century, but more centrally about the conceptualization of social change in South African history. Migrant labor and the more
Monday, 24 October, 2022 - 16:00
Anooradha Siddiqi
I would like to present material from the introduction to my book manuscript, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement (to be published by Duke University Press), which analyzes the history, visual more
Monday, 31 October, 2022 - 16:00
Willemien Froneman
Grounded in Aristotle, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida and Peter Sloterdijk’s reflections on the synesthesia of touch, the haptic sense as “corpus,” and the philosophical possibility of the gestation of a bodily apparatus via the ear, this more
Thursday, 3 November, 2022 - 12:00
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Presented by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Abstract: In Kenya over recent years several small ethnic groups have sought classification as a ‘tribe of Kenya’ through the granting of a ‘code’. These groups aim not more
Monday, 7 November, 2022 - 16:00
Merve Fejzula
This paper employs the history of negritude’s intellectual and institutional expansion across the twentieth century, to argue for a new conceptualization of public spheres. Against conventional Habermasian accounts, I argue that states are more