Announcements
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
Monday, 29 July, 2024 - 16:00
Ngala Chome & Justin Willis
Asked why they intended to vote for William Ruto in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election, many people in central Kenya had a simple answer: ‘we owe Ruto a debt’. This was not the only kind of debt, nor the only idea of 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
Monday, 5 August, 2024 - 16:00
Tunde Okunoye
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
Monday, 19 August, 2024 - 16:00
Keith Breckenridge
Monday, 26 August, 2024 - 16:00
Richard Steyn
Monday, 9 September, 2024 - 16:00
Wendy Willems
Monday, 16 September, 2024 - 16:00
Deborah James
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
Monday, 7 October, 2024 - 02:00
Rodney Ehrlich
Monday, 21 October, 2024 - 16:00
Michelle Spektor
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