Announcements

Tuesday, 23 July, 2024 - 18:00

Sharad Chari

WiSER and UKZN Press invite you to a hybrid book launch and discussion of Apartheid Remains by Sharad Chari In Apartheid Remains, Sharad Chari explores how people handle the remains of segregation and apartheid in South Africa 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

Thursday, 1 August, 2024 - 12:00

Sarah Nuttall

A new seminar series running from February to June 2024 Recent work on infrastructures, atmospheres and the biospheric shifts associated with conditions of the Anthropocene have relied on rendering newly vivid those aspects of the social more

Wednesday, 7 August, 2024 - 15:00

Keith Breckenridge

We encourage anyone interested in working with Omeka S to join us for a Zoom workshop on Wednesday, August 7, at 15:00.  If you would like an account on the project server at https://afridig.omeka.net, please contact Keith more

Tuesday, 17 September, 2024 - 18:00

Laura Phillips

Thirty years since the end of apartheid the public mood in South Africa is pessimistic. Loadshedding, crime and corruption dominate headlines, while opinion makers wring their hands about opportunities lost and paths not taken. But more

Wednesday, 30 October, 2024 - 12:00

Achille Mbembe

Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Innovation Foundation for Democracy On October 30 and 31, 2024, WISER and the Foundation will be hosting a public forum in Johannesburg, South Africa to consider the problems more

Thursday, 1 October, 2026 - 00:00

Keith Breckenridge

Over the last twenty years WiSER has established itself as the leading interdisciplinary research institute in the Humanities and Social Sciences on the African continent. From 2023, with generous support from Standard Bank, the more