Announcements

Monday, 18 March, 2024 - 16:00

Rike Sitas et al

[ Please register on Zoom in advance of this event. ] 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, 8 April, 2024 - 16:00

Louise Green


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, 13 May, 2024 - 16:00

Peter Geschiere


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, 3 June, 2024 - 16:00

Ruth Gilmore


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, 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

Monday, 1 July, 2024 - 16:00

Matthew Gandy


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

Thursday, 25 July, 2024 - 17:00

Yousseff Mnaili

24th & 25th July 2024 WiSER, Johannesburg Call for Papers Delegation – or indirect rule - is ubiquitous. Leaders at the state level rely on a network of actors, including local and national bureaucrats, judges, central bankers more

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