The Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Oslo has advertised a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship. For more information, and to apply, see here.

Former WiSER MA student Simphiwe Ngwane reflects on the legacies of the 1976 Soweto Uprising for Generation Y.

John Stremlau comments on the WISER Piketty panel and the implications for taxation and the surveillance of offshore capital flows in the Business Day.

(videos are listed in the order in which the panels took place)

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Introduction: Sarah Nuttall

Panel One: Africa in Diasporic and Continental Imagination

Xolela Mangcu, "The Idea of Africa in Black South African Political Thought"

Achille Mbembe, "Futures of Pan-Africanism"

International Symposium
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia
4th June 2015

International Symposium
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia

3rd June 2015

We are very pleased that Yasmina Martin, a recent recipient of a Fulbright scholarship currently based at Amhest College in the US, will be joining the Wits History Department and WiSER to do research on LGBT rights in South Africa. She describes her project:

Black Music and the Aesthetics of Protest

Co-presented with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Musicology

Neo Muyanga’s opera The Struggle serves as a departure point for a panel discussion exploring the role of Black opera and other genres of Black music in achieving racial justice and social change, the persistent exclusionary politics of musical genres, and the future revolutionary potential of historically defined Black genres.

Neo Muyanga, WiSER's composer-in-residence, reflects on work done during April and May 2015.