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WiSER PhD student Ellison Tjirera writes for Insight Namibia (Dec 2015/Jan 2016) on the Dried Peas Control Ordinance and the politics of drinking under apartheid.

Hlonipha Mokoena has been quoted in an article by Rea Khoabane for the Sunday Times on the politics of wearing doeks, headscarves, and turbans.

Achille Mbembe in conversation at the recent Nuit des Idées at the Quai d'Orsay.

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi and Achille Mbembe have both contributed essays to a special edition of Arts and Humanities in Education titled 'State of Urgency: The Humanities in South Africa.' See more here.

WiSER PhD student and visual artist Ruth Sacks will present a paper at this year's conference of the College Art Association in Washington, DC.

Achille Mbembe will take part in La Nuit des idées at the Quai d’Orsay on 27 January. The event brings into conversation artists, intellectuals, and architects to imagine tomorrow's world. See here for more information.

~ WiSER WELCOMES YOU TO OUR 2016 PROGRAMME ~

The Institute has undergone a period of reflection. We are determined to respond creatively to the historic challenges put to us all by the student movement in 2015. We embrace the critique that has been made of South African institutions and we want to actively contribute to changing and re-inventing our University as we move forward into the year.

Elisabeth Wellershaus reports on the Johannesburg Goethe Institute's 'African Futures' festival, held in October and November 2015, at which Achille Mbembe delivered a keynote address.

An excerpt from Achille Mbembe's "Diary of My South African Years". The "Diary" includes various notes, fragments, unfinished texts (some of them hand written), interviews, public interventions and other material accumulated over many years.

In December last year, WiSER's Achille Mbembe was awarded a prestigious A1 rating from the National Research Foundation.

As Wits VC and Principle Adam Habib explains: “I don’t think people realise what it means to be A1. It means that, effectively, you are at the cutting edge of the world. You are in the top 3 to 5 of the world. That is what it means. You don’t get higher than that.”