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Sarah Emily Duff has contributed an essay to Issue 18 of Powision, the theme of which is 'difference'. Her piece is titled 'Children, Childhood, and the Making of Racial Difference in South Africa.'

STEVE BIKO LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY

Still Hoping for a Revolution

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)

Hlonipha Mokoena will be in conversation with Lindie Koorts, Mark Gevisser, and Jill Weintroub on biography and the writing of South African history at this year's Free State Arts Festival in Bloemfontein.

Achille Mbembe was interviewed recently by Le Monde.

Sarah Emily Duff took part in this year's Summer Programme in Social Science, held at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in June. The Programme is run over three years, and hosts a group of young scholars from the global south. It is organised jointly by EHESS, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala.

A new piece by Achille Mbembe, 'Africa in the New Century,' has been posted on Africa is a Country.

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe are both participating in the prestigious 2016 Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory in Bologna. The theme of this year's meeting is 'Global Humanities and the Global South: History, Politics, and Critical Theory.'

Shireen Hassim and Catherine Burns represented WiSER at the 2016 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes in June in London. The theme of this year's conference was 'Area Studies in a Globalising World: Past, Present, and Future.'

Please see below for videos of our seminar 'Violence, Non-Violence, and the Future of Democracy' hosted on 30 May 2016 by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Speakers included Wendy Brown, Achille Mbembe, Thando Njovane, Jane Taylor, David Theo Goldberg, and Judith Butler.

Achille Mbembe is on the cover of the 2 June edition of Libération. He is profiled by Cécile Daumas, and interviewed by both Cécile and Sonya Faure.