Announcements
Monday, 18 March, 2024 - 16:00
Rike Sitas et al
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Kigali and Nairobi have been dubbed ‘silicon savannahs’, celebrated for their adoption of smart city programmes and projects (Rosenberg & Brent, 2020; Graham & Mann more
Monday, 25 March, 2024 - 16:00
Rowan Boyson
Monday, 25 March, 2024 - 16:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at the University of London UCL warmly invite you to the third seminar of our new online seminar series
Breathing In: Air and Atmospheres more
Monday, 8 April, 2024 - 16:00
Helene Strauss
In this talk, I consider the cultural mediation of “atmospheric violence” (Hsuan Hsu) in South Africa alongside histories of ecocide that have long characterized industrialisation’s relationship to the earth. Placed at more
Monday, 15 April, 2024 - 12:00
Sarah Nuttall
Join Sarah Nuttall, esteemed Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, for a compelling discussion titled 'Hydrocolonialism and Pluvial Time: more
Monday, 15 April, 2024 - 16:00
Georges Eyenga
This article analyzes how individuals react to the age barriers established by the state for access to public service in Cameroon. The use of civil age as an instrument of identification reveals that this artifact has political more
Monday, 22 April, 2024 - 16:00
Ruth Sacks
This paper embraces what reading for air can bring to a narrative of how a 16th century portrait of Queen Idia appears in Lagos. Likenesses of the legendary Edo queen have been fashioned in Benin tradition since her time (including in more
Monday, 6 May, 2024 - 16:00
Euclides Goncalves
Monday, 20 May, 2024 - 16:00
Awadhendra Sharan
My presentation shall focus on practices and technologies through which air was sought to be rendered ‘pure’ in cities in colonial India. In particular, I shall draw attention to hygienic discourses that prioritized ‘ more
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 12:00
Achille Mbembe
The staff and students at WISER would like to congratulate our colleague, Achille Mbembe, on the award of the Holberg Prize, the most prestigious international prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences. We are thrilled that his more
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 16:00
Tunde Okunoye
Monday, 24 June, 2024 - 16:00
Gala Rexer
In this exploratory paper, I invite you to visit the Edmonton Waste Incinerator in North London. Since 2020, climate justice and Black Lives Matter activists have been campaigning against the expansion of this already polluting more
Thursday, 25 July, 2024 - 17:00
Yousseff Mnaili
Competence, Loyalty, and Control: Indirect Governance of Violence, Economy, and
Religion in Africa
Workshop (24-25th July 2024), WISER, Johannesburg
Call for Papers
Delegation – or indirect rule - is ubiquitous. more