Seminars

Paper Kinship: Constructing Individual Identity in Cold War Pakistan

Wednesday, 7 May, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Zehra
Hashmi

Drawing on archival material and oral histories, this chapter examines Pakistan's national identity database’s most immediate historical predecessor: Pakistan’s first paper-based population register.

Trusting public? Preliminary thoughts on urban seclusion, trust and public space

Wednesday, 12 March, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Talja
Blokland

Trust in people whom we know or work with in organizational contexts has been widely discussed, and scholars have also talked a lot about trust in our governments and other institutions, although not all of them agree that one should call this trust.

Trust as a decision under ambiguity: Does race matter?

Wednesday, 26 March, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Dambala Kutela
& Nicky Nicholls

This paper examines the role of ambiguity attitudes in shaping trust decisions. Traditional trust games often ignore or conflate the role of risk and ambiguity, though trust decisions typically involve the latter.

Reparative histories, the welfare state, and the future of income assistance for working-age adults in South Africa

Wednesday, 5 March, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Courtney
Hallink

Applying Gurminder Bhambra’s reparative history framework, this paper examines the historical institutionalisation of income protection for working-age adults and asks how this can inform contemporary debates about welfare reform.

Citizenship and Genocide Cards : IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar

Wednesday, 19 March, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Natalie
Brinham

This book, which is available open access here, draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critiqu

Digital identification in Jamaica

Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Luke
de Noronha

On ID, Solidarity and Resistance

Wednesday, 26 February, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Silvia
Masiero

Digital identity systems convert individuals into machine-readable data.

The DPI Approach: Infrastructuring Indian vision of Development

Wednesday, 23 April, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Bidisha
Chaudhuri

Digital Public Infrastructures or DPIs has become the newest technological export from India that is being globally recognised and efforts are being made to replicate its “success” in other countries of the global south (Sharma and Saran, 2023).

Putting Race in its Place

Tuesday, 11 February, 2025 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Luke
de Noronha

ID Wars in Côte d'Ivoire

Monday, 28 October, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Richard
Banégas
& Armando_
Cutolo

IS CLIMATE CHANGE UNGOVERNABLE? | Paul N Edwards

Wednesday, 9 October, 2024 - 13:00

WISER and the Pro Vice-Chancellor for Climate, Sustainability and I

Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections

Monday, 29 July, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Ngala Chome
& Justin Willis

Asked why they intended to vote for William Ruto in Kenya’s 2022 presidential election, many people in central Kenya had a simple answer: ‘we owe Ruto a debt’.

The Moneychanger state

Monday, 30 September, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Kevin
Donovan

Decolonization in East Africa was more than a political event: it was a step toward economic self-determination. In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin P.

Rhodes And His Banker: Empire, Wealth And The Coming Of Union

Monday, 26 August, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Richard
Steyn

[ This is an on-line seminar; please

Racialised Publics: Coloniality, Technology and Imaginaries

Monday, 9 September, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Wendy
Willems

The notion of the ‘public sphere’ remains one of the key concepts in the field of media and communications studies.

Trust: A question of belief

Monday, 12 August, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
John Keith
Hart

[ This is an on-line seminar; please

Collaborations to curb involuntary indebtedness among welfare grant recipients

Monday, 16 September, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Deborah
James

This project involved a partnership between the London School of Economics (LSE), human rights NGO Black Sash, Stellenbosch University Law Clinic (SULC), and the National Finance Ombud Scheme South Africa (NFOSA - formerly the Office of the Credit Ombud).

Biometric Statecraft, Policing, and Fingerprint Technology in Palestine/Israel, 1920-1948

Monday, 21 October, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Michelle
Spektor

After the League of Nations designated Palestine as a British Mandate in 1920, British colonial authorities created a Fingerprint Bureau in their newly-formed Palestine Police. When Israel was established in 1948, the Israel Police acquired the Bureau’s experts, methods, and technologies.

Carrot or Stick? Linking Nigeria’s National Identity Number (NIN) coerced enrolment with Questions of a shared Nigerian Identity

Monday, 5 August, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Tunde
Okunoye

Nigeria commenced enrolment to its national identity program in 2007, and enrolment numbers as of July 2023 stands at 101.6 million.

Achille Mbembe: Thinking the World from Africa

In collaboration with the Holberg Prize, Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK) and the Research Group for Radical Philosophy and Literature invite you all to an open seminar/reading session on this year’s Holberg Prize winner: historian, political theorist and public intellectual Achille Mbembe.

"‘Sou pessimista sobre um futuro sem racismo’, diz Mbembe"

Em entrevista a VEJA, Achille Mbembe falou sobre filosofia africana, fragilidades da democracia contemporânea e construção de uma sociedade mais sustentável

[Translation] In an interview with VEJA, Achille Mbembe talked about African philosophy, the fragilities of contemporary democracy, and the construction of a more sustainable society.

More on @Veja - By Luiz Paulo Souza 

Mbembe in São Paulo

Prof. Mbembe's first time in São Paulo. This event formed part of the São Paulo International Theater Show.

@Universidade de São Paulo

Images by: Silvia Machado



Hydrocolonialism and Pluvial Time: Materiality as Method'

Monday, 15 April, 2024 - 12:00

Join Sarah Nuttall, esteemed Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for

Breathing In: Air and Atmospheres

Thursday, 1 August, 2024 - 12:00

A new seminar series running from February to June 2024

Weathering Saharan Dust Beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: A Dialogue Between Climatology and Postcolonial Critical Theories

Monday, 11 March, 2024 - 16:00
Presented by: 
Lucy Sabin &
Jorge Olcina Cantos

This interdisciplinary dialogue between climatology and cultural studies explores the phenomenon of “Saharan dust” that passes through and beyond t

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