Victoria Hume's blog

Rising sea levels require new styles of oceanic research that speak to environmental and decolonial themes. Much oceanic research focuses on the surface of the ocean, tracing movements of people, ideas and objects.  An oceanic humanities equal to the present must engage with both human and non-human aspects of the ocean, with the depth and the surface. Such a project must also decolonize the histories of oceanic space, providing new approaches to aesthetic understandings of water.

Zanele Muholi received the insignia of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the Ambassador of France to South Africa on 22 November at a ceremony in Pretoria.

Read more in Art Africa magazine 

"One way to document, raise up and publicise these under-appreciated issues of care and compensation is through visualisation, which brings home the human costs of gold-mining and silicosis through powerful imagery and associated commentary." 

"The book helps the average reader to understand the evolution of knowledge as well as our knowledge of evolution."  See the October issue of the Wits Review (attached here), or access the full Review online here.  

Darwin's Hunch, by WiSER Research Associate Christa Kuljian, has been reviewed by Professor Alan G. Morris (University of Cape Town) for the South African Journal of Science.

"Darwin’s Hunch by Christa Kuljian is an important book because the search for fossil humans and the understanding of human variation is so important to South Africa. [...] 

Kuljian tracks through the more modern evidence and how our earlier social and academic biases and interests have impacted on current research. [...]