Blogs

"Visualising the human price of gold" - new work from the Governing Intimacies project by Shirin Rai and Beth Goldblatt

Submitted by Victoria Hume on 4 December, 2017 - 14:24

"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." 

Christa Kuljian's "Darwin's Hunch" in Wits Review

Submitted by Victoria Hume on 4 October, 2017 - 13:45

"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.  

Review of Christa Kuljian's "Darwin's Hunch" in South African Journal of Science

Submitted by Victoria Hume on 28 September, 2017 - 13:13

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. [...]

Recent Writing by Bongani Madondo

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 11 August, 2017 - 14:38

Bongani Madondo reviews Flowers of a Broken Smile by Mak Manaka for the Johannesburg Review of Books, discusses the heavy metal fans of Botswana for Huck Magazine, and explores the work of An

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi Granted a Wellcome Seed Award

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 August, 2017 - 10:58

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi has been granted a prestigious Seed Award from the Wellcome Trust to fund a project which explores South Africans' attitudes sexuality and how these affect uptake of sexual health interventions. For more information, see here.

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