Announcements
Thursday, 15 October, 2026 - 13:00
Laura Phillips
Chair: Keith Breckenridge
With: Sarah Nuttall, Hlonipha Mokoena, Isabel Hofmeyr, Jonathan Klaaren
Venue: Wiser Seminar Room, Richard Ward, 6th Floor
In September 1886 gold was discovered on the dusty Transvaal highveld. What followed more
Sunday, 15 November, 2026 - 23:00
Laura Phillips
With generous support from Standard Bank for the second phase of the African Trust Infrastructures project, WISER invites applications for 3-year full-time doctoral fellowships OR 5-year part-time doctoral fellowships to be awarded to more
Wednesday, 7 October, 2026 - 16:00
Eric Magale
Co-operatives have long been important institutions for low- to middle-income Kenyans, long before the financial inclusion discourse came about. But it was the advent of mobile money in 2008 that transformed Kenya's financial services more
Monday, 12 October, 2026 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the tenth session in our widely subscribed seminar series on Monday 12 October 4-5pm SAST
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
Life on the Wing: Avian more
Wednesday, 14 October, 2026 - 16:00
Erin Torkelson
Who owes what to whom? Can the debts of racial capitalism be repaid or repaired through redistribution? What role might basic income payments play in this process? In this speculative last chapter of Predatory Welfare, I consider the ways more
Wednesday, 21 October, 2026 - 16:00
Danny Bradlow and Magalie Masamba
Africa's sovereign debt crisis is exacerbating human rights vulnerabilities, yet the African human rights systems and institutions have remained largely absent from debt governance debates. While regional human rights systems do not more
Monday, 26 October, 2026 - 12:00
Sarah Nuttall
We are now almost half-way through our highly subscribed and successful seminar series
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Upcoming sessions for diarizing are as follows:
Monday 14 September Philip Miller more
Monday, 26 October, 2026 - 17:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to participate in a new seminar series
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
In an age of extinction, partial adaption and survival, what would a better more
Saturday, 31 October, 2026 - 00:00
Sarah Nuttal
You are warmly invited to participate in a new seminar series
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
In an age of extinction, partial adaption and survival, what would a better more
Saturday, 31 October, 2026 - 17:00
Oscar Ortega
Health Humanities in a Time of Extractivist Aftermaths and Ecological Damage:
Southern African Literary and Cultural Perspectives
WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research),
University of the Witwatersrand
This more
Saturday, 31 October, 2026 - 17:00
Sarah Nuttall
New book announcement
Postcolonial Air and Atmospheres: Elemental Life and Environmental Crisis
edited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr is published this week with UCL Press.
The book is fully Open Access and can be accessed more