Announcements

Monday, 14 April, 2025 - 16:00

Sarah Nuttall

You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South   Stephané Conradie will speak on Transferred matter: 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

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00

Luke de Noronha


Wednesday, 28 May, 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

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

Monday, 2 June, 2025 - 17:00

Sarah Nuttall

WiSER’s very successful online seminar series ‘Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities – Conversations from the Global South’ pauses for one week as Wits University is on break.  We commence again with Haripriya more