Announcements

Monday, 5 May, 2025 - 16:00

Sumana Roy

You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South Sumana Roy will speak on The Quest for the Plant more

Thursday, 8 May, 2025 - 18:00

Laura Phillips

While Afriforum, Solidarity, and any number of other rightwing organisations make their way to Washington to seek an audience with Trump, social media has provided an equally - or perhaps more - powerful platform from which South Africans more

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00

Luke de Noronha


Wednesday, 28 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 - 00:00

Sarah Nuttall

WiSER’s very successful online seminar series: ‘Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities – Conversations from the Global South’  pauses for two weeks on April 21 and 28 which are public holidays 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

Wednesday, 4 June, 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

Thursday, 26 June, 2025 - 17:00

Najibha Deshmukh

The Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water series, hosted by WiSER and Wits Water, starts up again next week, after the University break and the series of long weekends. We’d like to keep building the impetus behind the more