Blogs

Measures of future health, from the nonhuman to the planetary

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 7 November, 2019 - 19:21

Measures of Future Health, from the nonhuman to the planetary, an introductory essay by Abou Farman & Richard Rottenburg. The essay is meant to delineate the contours of measures of future health as they expand from the human to include the non-human and planetary. Essay can be found here.

"Architectures of Permanence: Brutalism and the South Africa University"

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 7 November, 2019 - 14:47

Hlonipha Mokoena will be presenting at the University of Columbia, "Architectures of Permanence: Brutalism and the South Africa University". Additional information can be found here.

Digital Identity and Data Privacy in Africa : Research Notes and Links

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 29 October, 2019 - 08:12 
https://wiser.wits.ac.za/ResearchingDigID

Tools for researching Digital Identity on the African Continent

Use a documentary database management tool – Zotero https://www.zotero.org (keeping track of the changing web, sharing)

* Good summary overview : Gelb and Metz Identification Revolution

Johannesburg's Oceans

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 23 October, 2019 - 10:35

Additional programme can be found here.

Mad Horse City Exhibition

Submitted by WiSER Admin on 14 October, 2019 - 11:06

The workshop programme is available here.

 

WISER Director's position on Tangwa Seminar

Submitted by Sarah Nuttall on 13 September, 2019 - 15:01

Wiser has received numerous calls and inquiries concerning the recently announced seminar in the Mapping African Futures seminar series.  As Director of WISER I would like to dissociate both myself and this Institute from the problematic and objectionable assertions in the proposed seminar by Professor Tangwa on the subject of  gender.   I was not consulted on the announcement of the talk.

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