Announcements
Monday, 24 March, 2025 - 16:00
Isabel Hofmeyr
You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series
Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South
Helene Strauss will speak on
The Northern Cape Phytosphere, Artisanal more
Wednesday, 26 March, 2025 - 16:00
Dambala Kutela & Nicky Nicholls
This paper examines the role of ambiguity attitudes in shaping trust decisions. Traditional trust games often ignore or conflate the role of risk and ambiguity, though trust decisions typically involve the latter. Using a refined trust more
Thursday, 27 March, 2025 - 13:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER and Wits Water warmly invite you to a monthly discussion series
Interdisciplinary conversations on water
~ Session Two ~
Each session pairs a scientist with a social scientist/humanities scholar who make brief opening presentations more
Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 - 12:30
Sophie Chevalier
In this presentation I would like to place this concept “purchasing power” at the heart of current debates in economic anthropology and more widely in the social disciplines. So far, this concept is unfamiliar in my discipline more
Wednesday, 16 April, 2025 - 16:00
Keith Breckenridge
Drawing out the competing legal models for the development of trust from Henry Maine and FW Maitland, this paper shows that while almost all of the English-speaking countries followed the path of self-regulated fiduciaries mapped out by more
Wednesday, 23 April, 2025 - 16:00
Bidisha Chaudhuri
Digital Public Infrastructures or DPIs has become the newest technological export from India that is being globally recognised and efforts are being made to replicate its “success” in other countries of the global south (Sharma more
Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 - 16:00
Pariroo Rattan
Wednesday, 7 May, 2025 - 16:00
Zehra Hashmi
Drawing on archival material and oral histories, this chapter examines Pakistan's national identity database’s most immediate historical predecessor: Pakistan’s first paper-based population register. The first more
Monday, 2 June, 2025 - 12:00
Sarah Nuttall
WiSER is proud to announce a new online seminar series
Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South.
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
February to June 2025
In these calamitous times, more