Blogs

The next meeting of the history of sexuality reading group will be on Thursday, 26 March at 3pm in the WiSER seminar room (6th floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus). We'll be focussing on the work of David Halperin, specifically:

David Halperin, ‘Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality,’ Representations, no. 63 (Summer 1998), pp. 93-120.

David Halperin, ‘How to do the History of Male Sexuality,’ GLQ, vol. 6, no. 1 (2000), pp. 87-124.

A South African edition of On the Postcolony will be published in May by Wits University Press, with a foreword by Isabel Hofmeyr and a note by the author.

Showdown at the Red Lion

by the winner of the prestigious Alan Paton award, the Herskovits prize and voted as author of one of the 100 best books to emerge from Africa during the 20th century,

CHARLES VAN ONSELEN

To all urbanists, thinkers about cities and those interested in Johannesburg and its development

You are invited by Prof Adam Habib,
Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand,
and Wits University Press & UKZN Press to the launch of two books

Our new colleague Jonny Steinberg writes for BuzzFeed Books on his decision to return to Johannesburg.

The Mail and Guardian reports on Allen and Bobby Isaacman's seminar on the Cahora Bassa dam and South Africa's security interests.

A profile of Neo Muyanga, WiSER's composer-in-residence, in the Mail and Guardian.

Applications to participate in this year's Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (28 June-8 July 2015) are open. This year's theme is Bios, Techné and the Manufacture of Happiness. Click here to apply and for more information.

International Society of Critical Health Psychology (ISHCP)

9th Biennial Conference

12-15 July 2015, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
 

An extract from an interview with Achille Mbembe for Le Monde's special edition 'L'Africa, l'envol'.