Seminars

WiSER in 2018

WiSER in 2018

 

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



Divinatory Computation : Artificial Intelligence and Africa

Faeeza Ballim & Keith Breckenridge, 24 October 2018

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.

WISER Director's position on Tangwa Seminar

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.

The Trust Seminar

Many countries on the African continent are building powerful new biometric population registration systems. Often matched with credit scoring regulations and digital payment systems, these tools are designed to have powerful effects on finance. The advocates of these systems describe them as trust infrastructures, mainly because they can be used to simplify payments and strengthen credit distribution in the context of unreliable identification and collateral systems. Trust is important, but it is also complicated and difficult.

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

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

"‘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 

The Unreason of the Law

Saturday, 15 September, 2001 - 14:30

The Unreason of the Law Jean & John Comaroff University of Chicago

Mourning and Memory in Congo

Saturday, 29 September, 2001 - 14:30

Mourning and Memory in Congo Bogumil Jewsiewicki  (University of Laval, Quebec)

Legal Pluralism, Decentralization and Conflict in the Sahel

Wednesday, 24 October, 2001 - 14:30

Legal Pluralism, Decentralization and Conflict in the Sahel Gerti Hesseling  (University of Leide

Ethnographies of the Post Colonial State

Thursday, 15 November, 2001 - 14:30

Ethnographies of the Post Colonial State Thomas Blom Hansen (University of Edinburgh)

Rewriting Twentieth-Century South Africa: General History in a Post-Apartheid Era

Wednesday, 21 November, 2001 - 14:30

Rewriting Twentieth-Century South Africa: General History in a Post-Apartheid Era William Beinart

Writing on Witchcraft in Times of AIDS

Saturday, 2 February, 2002 - 14:30

Writing on Witchcraft in Times of AIDS Adam Ashforth (Advanced Center for Social Research, Prince

African Modes of Self-Writing: A Critique of Political Economy and Nativism

Wednesday, 6 February, 2002 - 14:30

African Modes of Self-Writing: A Critique of Political Economy and Nativism Achille Mbembe (WISER

Common Illnesses: Anthropology of Health in Everyday Life in Maasina (Mali)

Tuesday, 19 March, 2002 - 14:30

Common Illnesses: Anthropology of Health in Everyday Life in Maasina (Mali) Frederic Le Marcis (C

Negotiating Spaces: The role of women in South Africa's transition

Tuesday, 26 March, 2002 - 14:30

Negotiating Spaces: The role of women in South Africa's transition Shireen Hassim (Department of

Ways of Living, Ways of Dying and the South African City

Tuesday, 26 March, 2002 - 14:30

Ways of Living, Ways of Dying and the South African City Rita Barnard (University of Pennsylvania

Globalizing Bestsellers: the Case of Marie Corelli

Thursday, 28 March, 2002 - 14:30

Globalizing Bestsellers: the Case of Marie Corelli Stephanie Newell (Trinity College, Dublin)

Ways of Reading

Tuesday, 9 April, 2002 - 14:30

Ways of Reading Karin Barber (University of Birmingham)

Embodied History: Uniqueness and Exemplarity of South African AIDS

Saturday, 13 April, 2002 - 14:30

Embodied History: Uniqueness and Exemplarity of South African AIDS Didier Fassin (University of P

Nationalism and Democracy in South Africa

Tuesday, 23 April, 2002 - 14:30

Nationalism and Democracy in South Africa Ivor Chipkin (WISER, Wits)

African Bodies, European Texts: Picturing The Pilgrim's Progress in Africa

Tuesday, 30 April, 2002 - 14:30

African Bodies, European Texts: Picturing The Pilgrim's Progress in Africa Isabel Hofmeyr (Africa

Maternity Matters: The Politics of Hospitalized Childbirth in South Africa, 1900 to 1960

Tuesday, 14 May, 2002 - 14:30

Maternity Matters: The Politics of Hospitalized Childbirth in South Africa, 1900 to 1960 Catherin

Constituting Democracy: A Sociological Study of Constitution-making in South Africa in the 1990s

Tuesday, 21 May, 2002 - 14:30

Constituting Democracy: A Sociological Study of Constitution-making in South Africa in the 1990s

From Hubris to Chaos: The Makings of the Bewysburo and the end of Documentary Government

Tuesday, 21 May, 2002 - 14:30

From Hubris to Chaos: The Makings of the Bewysburo and the end of Documentary Government Keith Br

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