Announcements
Monday, 18 August, 2025 - 16:00
Janine Patricia Santos
Monday, 25 August, 2025 - 13:00
Rosalind Morris
WiSER invites you to a book discussion by
Rosalind C. Morris
Unstable Ground
The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa
What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once more
Monday, 25 August, 2025 - 16:00
Keith Breckenridge
Tuesday, 26 August, 2025 - 13:00
Estefanía Bournot
WiSER invites you to join us for a lunchtime seminar
by Estefanía Bournot (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Extractive Zones and the Last Utopia:
Art, Literature, and Ecological Resistance from Latin America to Africa
Gustavo more
Wednesday, 27 August, 2025 - 13:00
Julia Tischler
WiSER invites you to a book discussion by
Julia Tischler (University of Basel)
Cultivating Race
Transatlantic Agricultural Reform in South Africa, c. 1900–1950
Simultaneous to the rise of industrial capitalism, more
Monday, 1 September, 2025 - 16:00
Sara Dezalay
Monday, 15 September, 2025 - 16:00
Niall Reddy
A hugely influential framework in South African political economy holds that the country has been dominated for the better part of a century by a Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) comprising powerful firms and state agencies involved in mining more
Monday, 29 September, 2025 - 16:00
Tunde Okunoye
Monday, 13 October, 2025 - 16:00
Keren Weitzberg
Monday, 20 October, 2025 - 16:00
Teo Zidaru
The digitalisation of global economies has fostered anxieties about the trustworthiness of so- called ‘Artificial Intelligence’ technologies and their implications for interpersonal and institutional forms of trust and mistrust more