Seminars

State, Civil Society and the Reconfiguration of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Friday, 29 August, 2003 - 14:30

State, Civil Society and the Reconfiguration of Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa Ran Greenste

The Politics of Verticality: Architecture and Occupation in the West Bank

Friday, 29 August, 2003 - 14:30

The Politics of Verticality: Architecture and Occupation in the West Bank Co-hosted with the Scho

Nationalism and Democracy in South Africa

Tuesday, 23 April, 2002 - 14:30

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

Criminal Obsessions: Imagining Order After Apartheid

Friday, 23 August, 2002 - 14:30

Criminal Obsessions: Imagining Order After Apartheid Jean & John Comaroff (University of Chic

School Walls, Walls as Schools in South Africa: An Outside View of educational Institutions

Tuesday, 23 July, 2002 - 14:30

School Walls, Walls as Schools in South Africa: An Outside View of educational Institutions Elisa

Why do you tear me from myself?': Torture, truth and the arts of the Counter-Reformation

Tuesday, 23 May, 2006 - 14:30

Why do you tear me from myself?': Torture, truth and the arts of the Counter-Reformation Jane Tay

Imagining and Imaging Place: Exhaustion and Creation at the Edges of Place-Making

Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 - 14:30

Imagining and Imaging Place: Exhaustion and Creation at the Edges of Place-Making Bruce Janz (Phi

The Threefold Meaning of Prophetic Hope – An Interpretation of Contemporary Humanist Philosophy

Thursday, 23 September, 2010 - 14:30

The Threefold Meaning of Prophetic Hope – An Interpretation of Contemporary Humanist Philosophy S

Post-Colonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industries of South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe

Tuesday, 24 August, 2004 - 14:30

Post-Colonial Workplace Regimes in the Engineering Industries of South Africa, Swaziland and Zimb

Public Poetics in the era of 'Accumulation by Dispossession

Thursday, 24 August, 2006 - 14:30

Public Poetics in the era of 'Accumulation by Dispossession Mark Nowak (College of St.

Political Theology: Recent Debate

Friday, 24 August, 2007 - 14:30

Political Theology: Recent Debate Achille Mbembe (WISER)

The Healthy Brothel: the context of clinical services for sex workers in Hillbrow, South Africa

Tuesday, 24 February, 2004 - 14:30

The Healthy Brothel: the context of clinical services for sex workers in Hillbrow, South Africa J

Edgy City Serials: Forms, Institutions and Built Environments in Post Apartheid Television Drama

Tuesday, 24 July, 2007 - 14:30

Edgy City Serials: Forms, Institutions and Built Environments in Post Apartheid Television Drama

Keeping Faith with the Black Messiah: Suffering, Hope and the Cost of the Future

Thursday, 24 July, 2008 - 14:30

Keeping Faith with the Black Messiah: Suffering, Hope and the Cost of the Future Daniel Magaziner

Colonialism, Limited: The Imperial Chartered Company in British Culture'

Wednesday, 24 March, 2004 - 14:30

Colonialism, Limited: The Imperial Chartered Company in British Culture' Stephen Donovan Blekinge

Curating Africa

Thursday, 24 March, 2005 - 14:30

Curating Africa Simon Njami (curator of the 'African Remix' exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in

Quiet diplomacy in Zimbabwe: a case study of South Africa in Africa

Tuesday, 24 May, 2005 - 14:30

Quiet diplomacy in Zimbabwe: a case study of South Africa in Africa Tom Lodge (Political Studies,

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930's and the Problem of Color

Thursday, 24 May, 2007 - 14:30

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930's and the Problem of Color Pro

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

The Hurting Race: Cotton Pub (Hillbrow), Nunos (Melville) and Psychology (Wits)

Tuesday, 24 October, 2006 - 14:30

The Hurting Race: Cotton Pub (Hillbrow), Nunos (Melville) and Psychology (Wits) Kgamadi Kometsi (

Democracy and its discontent: Vigilantism, sovereignity and human rights in South Africa

Tuesday, 25 April, 2006 - 14:30

Democracy and its discontent: Vigilantism, sovereignity and human rights in South Africa Lars Buu

Writing the City: Four Post-Apartheid texts

Tuesday, 25 February, 2003 - 14:30

Writing the City: Four Post-Apartheid texts Liz Gunner (University of Natal)

Francophone African literature: the language issue.

Tuesday, 25 July, 2006 - 14:30

Francophone African literature: the language issue.

Globalisation and new social identities: A jig-saw puzzle from Johannesburg

Tuesday, 26 April, 2005 - 14:30

Globalisation and new social identities: A jig-saw puzzle from Johannesburg Peter Alexander (Soci

City Forms and Writing the 'Now' 'in South Africa

Tuesday, 26 August, 2003 - 14:30

City Forms and Writing the 'Now' 'in South Africa Sarah Nuttall (WISER, University of the Witwate

Memory, Justice, Inclusion

Thursday, 20 June, 2002 - 14:30

Memory, Justice, Inclusion Charles Taylor (McGill University) Co-sponsored by the Department of p

Thinking the relevance of the state - A literary view?'

Friday, 20 June, 2003 - 14:30

Thinking the relevance of the state - A literary view?' Isabel Hofmeyr (African Literature, Unive

Memory and Counter-memory'

Saturday, 20 March, 2004 - 14:30

Memory and Counter-memory' Johannes Fabian

Patient Trouble: Reflections on a South African Medical Ethics

Tuesday, 20 March, 2007 - 14:30

Patient Trouble: Reflections on a South African Medical Ethics Hillel Braude (University of Chica

Religion and Migrant Labour

Friday, 20 May, 2005 - 14:30

Redeeming the Failed Promise of Democracy in Eritrea: From Liberation to Repression

Friday, 20 May, 2005 - 14:30

Redeeming the Failed Promise of Democracy in Eritrea: From Liberation to Repression Dan Connell (

Child Soldiers in African Fiction

Tuesday, 20 May, 2008 - 14:30

Child Soldiers in African Fiction Mark Sanders (New York University and WISER Visiting Fellow)  <

Dissenting white writings on Johannesburg in the 1980s

Friday, 20 October, 2006 - 14:30

Dissenting white writings on Johannesburg in the 1980s Irikidzayi Manase (University of Kwazulu-N

The Regulation of the Urban African Family in South Africa in the 1930s and 1940s

Tuesday, 3 August, 2004 - 14:30

The Regulation of the Urban African Family in South Africa in the 1930s and 1940s Deborah Posel (

How to be a 'real' gay: contested identities in small-town South Africa

Friday, 3 August, 2007 - 14:30

How to be a 'real' gay: contested identities in small-town South Africa Graeme Reid (WISER, Wits

“Poor Men’s White: Turning the Popular into Cultural Heritage in Salvador, Bahia”

Tuesday, 3 March, 2009 - 14:30

“Poor Men’s White: Turning the Popular into Cultural Heritage in Salvador, Bahia” Mattijs van de

Portuguese Maritime Exploration and the African in-Between

Wednesday, 3 May, 2006 - 14:30

Portuguese Maritime Exploration and the African in-Between Prof.

Science, conservation and apartheid: South Africa's national parks, c.1948-c.1960

Thursday, 3 May, 2007 - 14:30

Science, conservation and apartheid: South Africa's national parks, c.1948-c.1960 Jane Carruthers

History and Social Memory: Some Problems in their Relationship

Friday, 3 September, 2004 - 14:30

History and Social Memory: Some Problems in their Relationship Chris Wickham (Professor of Histor

Bodiographies: Writing the Body and the Self

Wednesday, 21 August, 2002 - 14:30

Bodiographies: Writing the Body and the Self Sarah Nuttall WISER, University of the Witwatersrand

Ma-slaan-pa dockets': Policing domestic violence

Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 - 14:30

Ma-slaan-pa dockets': Policing domestic violence Julia Hornberger (WISER, Wits University)

The Politics of Football: Neighborhood clubs, youth politics and urban control in Senegal

Tuesday, 21 July, 2009 - 14:30

The Politics of Football: Neighborhood clubs, youth politics and urban control in Senegal Susann

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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