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Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins (Jacana, 2016) by WiSER associate Christa Kuljian has been long listed for the prestigious 2017 Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award. For the full list see here.

Achille Mbembe will present a keynote address at the Butler Conference organised by the Research Institute for the Humanities CLUE+ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on 5-7 April 2017.

For more information, about the conference, see here. The programme is available here.

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe will present keynote addresses at the 2017 Spring School held on 5-8 April at the University of Tübingen's Weltethos Institute. The theme of this year's School is 'Participatory Cultures and New Ethical Paradigms in the Global South.'

The programme is available here.

Achille Mbembe will participate in and deliver the keynote lecture at the conference 'African Migration in Comparative Perspective' Duke University. See here for the conference programme.

An interview with Achille Mbembe in Der Spiegel (in German and subscribers-only).

Achille Mbembe argues that Africa needs a humane migration policies, for the Mail and Guardian.

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)’s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.

Achille Mbembe will take part in the first Night of Ideas and Philosophy to be held in New York. The event is organised by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Achille presents 'What is the Future of Democracy?' at 7pm in the Brooklyn Central Library on 28 January 2017.

An English edition of Achille Mbembe's Critique de la raison negre will be published by Duke University Press in 2017. Critique of Black Reason was translated by Laurent Dubois.

Africa's Great Civilizations - a new television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - will be aired by PBS in the United States in February 2017. Hlonipha Mokoena is featured in its first trailer.