AIDS, Sex and Culture: memory and power in contemporary South Africa Ida Susser (CUNY Graduate Ce
The Contagion of Witness: between Postcolonialism and Holocaust Memory Louise Bethlehem The Hebre
Mapiko: Dancing Masks and Socialism in Mozambique Paolo Israel (Centre for Humanities Research,
Mounting Queen Victoria: Curating Cultural Change Dr. Steve C.
Nudity and Morality: Legislating Women’s Bodies and Dress in Nigeria Bibi Bakare-Yusuf (Independe
Mediating Testimony: Broadcasting South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission Prof Catheri
The Politics of Football: Neighborhood clubs, youth politics and urban control in Senegal Susann
When the “Deserving Poor” were White and the Blacks were “Cheap African Labor”: Racializing Pover
Cosmopolitan Legacies Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania) Co-hosted with the Centre for Indi
Three literary meditations on Hindu-Muslim violence in postcolonial India Suvir Kaul (University
Indians Overseas?
A Sign Prophetic?': Black Loyalism and the 1947 Royal Tour of South Africa Hilary Sapire (Birkbec
“Poor Men’s White: Turning the Popular into Cultural Heritage in Salvador, Bahia” Mattijs van de
Francophone African literature and the critical appraisal of South African literature in France B
Keeping Faith with the Black Messiah: Suffering, Hope and the Cost of the Future Daniel Magaziner
Where can you find Xhosa Literature?
The Moment of 1989: Democratic Revolution in a global perspective Padraic Kenney (University of I
Slavery, Islam and the Construction of Race and Sex at the Cape Gabeba Baderoon (Penn State Unive
Child Soldiers in African Fiction Mark Sanders (New York University and WISER Visiting Fellow) <
On Zimbabwe: the arrogance of good imperialists George Shire (Central St.
An Ethnography of faith Caroline Jeannerat (WISER)
Performing Cultural Guardianship: Chieftainess Nkomeshya’s Political Revival of the Chakwela Maku
Imagining and Imaging Place: Exhaustion and Creation at the Edges of Place-Making Bruce Janz (Phi
Strings of Gold: Men, Mines and Markets in the World Economy Bernd Grewe (Konstanz University)
Deep but dicey play: The meanings of money in Soweto's popular economies Detlev Krige (Anthropolo
Inter-faith dialogue in Africa: A new optimism in International Relations?
Political Theology: Recent Debate Achille Mbembe (WISER)
Ma-slaan-pa dockets': Policing domestic violence Julia Hornberger (WISER, Wits University)
Theorizing the Contemporary World: Robert Brenner, Giovani Arrighi, David Harvey Moishe Postone (
Love in the time of conviction Eric Worby (School of Social Sciences, Wits University)
The Jacob Zuma Rape Trial: Power and ANC masculinities Raymond Suttner (Walter and Albertina Sisu
How to be a 'real' gay: contested identities in small-town South Africa Graeme Reid (WISER, Wits
Apathy and agency in Damon Galgut's The Good Doctor Michael Titlestad (School of Literature and L
Edgy City Serials: Forms, Institutions and Built Environments in Post Apartheid Television Drama
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930's and the Problem of Color Pro
Suburbs on the veld, modern and postmodern Alan Mabin (Architecture & Planning & CUBES, W
The dead and the territory: a complex relationship Dr Renato Cymbalista (Coordinator of Urbanism,
Religion’s place in the various Academic Disciplines An interdisciplinary panel discussion with:
Digging deep. Reaching far.
Science, conservation and apartheid: South Africa's national parks, c.1948-c.1960 Jane Carruthers
Money in the making of world society Keith Hart (Anthropology, Goldsmiths University of London) <
The Circulation of Paper in Victorian London Professor Leah Price (Harvard University)
‘Maid’ Subject: Democratic Statecraft and Domestic Workers in Post-Apartheid South Africa Shireen
Patient Trouble: Reflections on a South African Medical Ethics Hillel Braude (University of Chica
Moralising security: 'corrections' and the post-apartheid prison Kelly Gillespie (University of C
Lessons from South Africa for Israel/Palestine Prof.
Is there any Reason why an Egalitarian should support Black Economic Empowerment?
Decompartmentalizing South African History, 1902-1925 Phil Bonner (WISER, Wits University) (paper
German Intellectuals and Nineteenth/early Twentieth Century South Africa Sara Pugach
The Hurting Race: Cotton Pub (Hillbrow), Nunos (Melville) and Psychology (Wits) Kgamadi Kometsi (
