Blogs

Ellison Tjirera on Namibia's Dried Peas Control Ordinance

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 5 February, 2016 - 09:25

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 on the Politics of Doeks, Headscarves, and Turbans

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 4 February, 2016 - 10:08

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 at La Nuit des Idées

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 February, 2016 - 10:55

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

Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi and Achille Mbembe on the State of the Humanities in South Africa

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 29 January, 2016 - 09:27

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.

Ruth Sacks to Present at the CAA Annual Conference

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 29 January, 2016 - 09:26

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.

Workshop: Mediating Past, Present and Future

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 29 January, 2016 - 09:25

WiSER PhD students Emery Kalema and Ruth Sacks organised a four-day workshop in Kinshasa titled 'Mediating Past, Present and Future: Historical narratives and 20th/21st century art; Dialogues with Global South experiences.' The project is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between Kinshasa (l’Académie des Beaux Arts, Democratic Republic of the Congo), Johannesburg (Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and São Paulo (Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil).

Achille Mbembe at La Nuit des idées, Quai d’Orsay, 27 January 2016

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 22 January, 2016 - 11:59

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

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 20 January, 2016 - 11:16

~ 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.

A Radical Culture of Listening: Believing is not Knowing

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 20 January, 2016 - 10:47

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.

Achille Mbembe, 'Adorno, Marcuse, and the Politics of Brutality'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 18 January, 2016 - 13:16

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.