Announcements
Wednesday, 4 August, 2021 - 18:00
Sizwe Mpofu-Walshs
WiSER invites you to the launch of
THE NEW APARTHEID
By Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and more
Wednesday, 11 August, 2021 - 12:00Add to Calendar
Keith Breckenridge
We would like to encourage anyone interested in working with Omeka S to join us for a Zoom workshop on Wednesday, August 11, at 12:00.
If you would like an account on the project server at https://afridig.omeka.net, please more
Wednesday, 11 August, 2021 - 17:00Add to Calendar
Sisonke Msimang
WiSER, Governing Intimacies and Number10Publishers invite you to
On Violence: an intergenerational conversation about women's resistance
A conversation between Sisonke Msimang (writer, WISER Writing Fellow), more
Thursday, 12 August, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Keith Breckenridge
The Forge, WISER and the C150 Chair in Gender and African Politics invite you to a panel investigating the political economy of last month's events in Durban and Pietermaritzburg.
Thursday, 12 August, 2021 - 18:00
All of the popular more
Monday, 16 August, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Nicodemus Fru Awasom
The nature and way of Africa’s entanglement with the West is such that Africans have often been treated as pawns and inconsequential subjects in western imperial gymnastics. Western imperial interests always took precedence over the more
Monday, 23 August, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Srila Roy
Monday, 30 August, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Janeke Thumbran
This paper examines how the ‘coloured question’ was initially formulated through the biological essence that underpinned this racial category. The paper makes two arguments: first that the essence of this category – represented through more
Monday, 6 September, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Kirk Sides
This paper looks at the work of Nigerian author Amos Tutuola arguing that Tutuola’s first works, The Palmwine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, inaugurate a negotiation over which poetics and politics were best suited to imagine more
Monday, 13 September, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Christopher Tounsel
Monday, 27 September, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Jeff Maskovsky
This talk explores the ways that whiteness and paternalism work to categorize labor in the 21st century United States. The entry point for this discussion is the rise of Trumpism, which I see as a post-civil rights era form of right-wing more