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Monday, 3 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Albert Mushai
Tuesday, 4 May, 2021 - 18:00Add to Calendar
Noah Tamarkin
WISER invites you to the launch of Noah Tamarkin's Genetic Afterlives
Zoom Event
The author will be in discussion with Nolwazi MKhwanazi, Achille Mbembe and Kaushik Sunder Rajan.
In 1997, M. E. R. Mathivha, an elder of the black more
Monday, 10 May, 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, 24 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Lindelwa Dalamba
Presented by Lindelwa Dalamba, Philip Burnett, Roe-Min Kok and Yvonne Liao
Recent years have seen intensive critical engagement across the humanities with questions of decoloniality (e.g. Quijano 2000, Mignolo 2011, Mignolo and Walsh 2018 more
Monday, 31 May, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Rachel Sandwell
In the late 1990s, as the hearings of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) began, stories of past abuse, including sexual violence, within the exiled camps of the African National Congress (ANC) emerged. Despite women more
Monday, 7 June, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Sharad Chari
Monday, 14 June, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Mark Hunter
A considerable amount of research shows that drugs in colonial settings drew indigenous groups into relations of dependence—that is they acted as ‘labor inducers’ and ‘labor enhancers’ in the words of Jankowiak and Bradburd. Southern more
Monday, 21 June, 2021 - 16:00Add to Calendar
Edward Higgs
Artificial intelligence systems are being developed to identify known ‘criminals’ through facial recognition profiling, and also to identify criminal physiognomies of those considered to be potential criminals. Such systems are being more