Announcements
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
Thursday, 17 September, 2026 - 12:00
Keith Breckenridge
WISER and the SA-UK SARChI Chair in the Digital Humanities warmly invite you to join us for a Chatham House lunchtime seminar on :
The African Humanities after the AI rupture.
The seminar will bring together more
Friday, 18 September, 2026 - 15:00
Keith Breckenridge
WISER’s African Political Economy Reading Group invites you to join us for a panel discussion of Joe Studwell’s new book, How Africa Works. The author will be in discussion with a group of researchers from WISER, the more
Monday, 21 September, 2026 - 04:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the seventh session in a new seminar series on Monday 21 September 4-5pm SAST
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
Abstracting Flight: Datafication and Divination more
Monday, 21 September, 2026 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the seventh session in a new seminar series on Monday 21 September 4-5pm SAST
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah more
Monday, 21 September, 2026 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
You are warmly invited to the seventh session in a new seminar series on Monday 21 September 4-5pm SAST
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
Abstracting Flight: more
Wednesday, 23 September, 2026 - 16:00
Bulelani Jili
This piece examines Huawei’s rise in Kenya as part of a broader transformation in African digital governance. The sections trace how telecommunications liberalization shifted the state from direct infrastructure provision toward more
Wednesday, 30 September, 2026 - 16:00
Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen
This article examines the resistance strategies employed by fintech users in Jimeta, Nigeria against the violent techniques used by fintech companies to enforce loan repayments. While efforts to extend access to financial services are 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
Wednesday, 14 October, 2026 - 16:00
Erin Torkelson
Over the past decade and a half the South African social grant payment system has changed several times -- but, debt has been part and parcel of each new system. Between 2012 and 2015, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) 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