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WiSER Director Sarah Nuttall was interviewed recently on TalkRadio 702 about the humanities.

A summary and audio recording of Keith Breckenridge's recent inaugural lecture.

WiSER Winter Programme in Critical Thought

WiSER’s 2017 Winter Programme in Critical Thought will run from July to September this year. As in 2016, we will design and curate a cluster of afternoon symposia, conferences, seminars and public events, many of them in collaboration with other institutes or departments.

Achille Mbembe discusses the implications of the recent French Presidential election for Africa, for Le Point Afrique.

Achille Mbembe will discuss racial violence with Taiye Selasi and David Theo Goldberg at 'Dictionary of Now' on 11 May at 7pm, an event organised by Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. For more information, see here.

Hlonipha Mokoena, Achille Mbembe, and others will discuss the contemporary South African art scene at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris on 27 April 2017 at 17:30. The debate forms part of a broader exhibition of South African art at the Foundation, and will be live streamed on YouTube. For more information, see here.

The Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research is pleased to announce that Achille Mbembe has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy is both a learned society and independent policy research centre. It recognises achievement across academia, the arts, science, business, and government, and currently includes Nobel Prize winners, Pulitzer Prize winners, MacArthur Fellows, and luminaries who shape contemporary politics, policy, and society.

THE DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG INVITES YOU TO A PANEL DISCUSSION ON:

The “Anglophone Problem” and the Political Future of Cameroon

16 August 2017 

A workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa