Seminars

Monday, 4 November, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Nafisa
Essop Sheik

Some historians of the British Empire have argued that the post-1857 Empire reflected a turn away from liberalism in favour of pre-existing sources of hegemony which were reactivated under colonialism and opposed the liberal rationalist agenda of imperialism with considerable success.

Monday, 7 October, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Nkgopoleng
Moloi

This paper investigates, theorises and seeks to understand the movement of womxn in and around Johannesburg—interrogating the politics of gender and sexuality as it relates to migration and mobility.

Monday, 30 September, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Lucy
Allais

Kant’s philosophy centrally focusses on trying to give an a priori account of conditions of the possibility of various human phenomena, including metaphysics, empirical knowledge, there being moral reasons and the nature of just political power.

Monday, 16 September, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Stephen
Sparks

My concern here is a small, but important slice of the South African Anthropocene: the undermining, by coal mining, of the sub-surface of Sasolburg, the South African company town set up in the 1950s by the apartheid state.

Monday, 14 October, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Catherine
Janet
Jennifer
Burns
Giddy
Upton

Historians of medicine in South Africa have demonstrated that in the late 19th and 20th centuries instances of South African medical research and clinical innovation gained global recognition, notably in malaria and tuberculosis work; in malnutrition and breastfeeding studies; in emergency medici

Monday, 12 August, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Nimanthi
Rajasingham

The presentation is from Nimanthi Pe

WISER Discussion : "Residual Governance: How African Anthropocenes Foretell Planetary Futures"

Friday, 29 March, 2019 - 11:30

WISER invites you to join us for a discussion of a book project with Gabrielle Hecht based on th

Monday, 18 March, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Ufuoma
Akpojivi

Social protest is not a new phenomenon in Ghana, as protests have been from pre-independence era as a tool of engagement between the citizens and the state.

Monday, 8 April, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Sizwe
Mpofu-Walsh

NWFZs are a firm feature of the global nuclear political landscape, affecting territories from Africa to Latin America, and from the South Pacific to Southeast Asia. Yet traditional and critical scholars alike have under-valued the importance of this occurrence.

Monday, 13 May, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Annemi
Conradie

The interior décor trends ‘colonial chic’ and ‘safari chic’ started gaining popularity in the United States and Great Britain during the 1980s.

Monday, 4 March, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Doug
Bafford

The global rise of Pentecostalism and other relatively charismatic forms of Christianity has prompted extensive commentary in the social sciences, whether through the lens of syncretic cultural practice, psychological experiences of transcendence, or the socioeconomic logics of millennial capital

Monday, 25 February, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Tinashe
Jakwa

This paper seeks to answer the following question: (1) how does the concept of ‘the state’ obfuscate our understandings of the causes of (socio)political instability? The paper critically engages existing literature on ‘the state’ in order to shed light on existing definitions of the concept.
Monday, 27 May, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Richard
Rottenburg

Please do not circulate or quote since this is work in progress. It is the draft of a book prospectus in the making. I hope that our discussion will help me to improve it.

Monday, 11 March, 2019 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Wahbie
Long

In this talk, I argue that the psychoanalytic concepts of shame and envy—when framed at the societal level—are not only among the principal drivers of violence in South Africa, they are also responses to violence in the broadest sense of the term, that is, violence understood as &ldqu

Divinatory Computation : Artificial Intelligence and Africa

Faeeza Ballim & Keith Breckenridge, 24 October 2018

Bhalisa 3 | Cambridge | Panels

Tuesday, 19 March, 2019 - 23:30

See the list of panels below.

At the End of Time: Thinking with Water

Thursday, 30 August, 2018 - 12:30

WiSER and Oceanic Humanities invite you to a lunchtime seminar by

Monday, 17 September, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Wendy
Kline

How was pain understood in the 1970s? ...

Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Wednesday, 15 August, 2018 - 12:45

WiSER invites you to a lunchtime seminar by

Social History comes to Warwick

Thursday, 9 August, 2018 - 11:30

WISER, the Governing Intimacies Project, the Department of

Monday, 22 October, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Richard
Pithouse

This contribution offers some observations with regard to political identities in a pop- ular movement largely based in the shantytowns of Durban, South Africa.

Monday, 6 August, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Ruth
Sacks

This paper deals with ways of approaching architecture within the shifting uncertainties of the giant Congolese capital. Taking a cue from Kinshasa, I will make a case for being receptive to what the current situation of built matter in urban space has to say.

Monday, 15 October, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Melanie
Boehi

This paper argues that botanical garden should be reframed as social gardens.

Monday, 13 August, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Lewis
Manthata

Transformation is a topical issue within cricket circles in South Africa and will continue to remain so until there is redress. The study of cricket and transformation can be viewed as a social metaphor that allows for the analysis on socio- economic issues in the country.

Monday, 29 October, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

T. Dunbar
Moodie

The transition in South Africa from apartheid to a constitutional democracy with equal rights for all has been described and celebrated in innumerable accounts. The best overview is probably Patti Waldmeir’s, Anatomy of a Miracle.

Monday, 10 September, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Euclides
Goncalves

In Mozambican bureaucratic practice “arquivo morto”, literally translated as “dead archive” refers to a site where documents that are inactive or have been taken out of circulation are kept before they are eventually destroyed.

Monday, 20 August, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Danny
Bradlow

The international financial system is one of the most powerful forces shaping both the global economy and the domestic political economy in many countries around the world.

Thursday, 4 October, 2018 - 12:00

Presented by: 

Rodrigo
Naranjo

Under the emergence of modernity, captivity, or more precisely, its dynamic traces a living experience of the new; the production or invention of the americas as the new.

Monday, 1 October, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Thato
Masiangoako

South Africa’s legal system maintains its legitimacy despite the commonplace experiences of injustice that take place at the hands of the criminal justice system.

Monday, 27 August, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Caio Simões
de Araújo

In 1952, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) agreed to establish a commission to study the “racial situation” in South Africa, a topic that had been raised in the organization since 1946, when India first brought the “treatment of Indians” under white rule to t

Monday, 23 July, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Johan
Mathew

The role of trust in long-distance trade has long been a topic of scholarly inquiry and debate amongst economists, sociologists and historians. Much of this literature hinges on the social, legal and economic structures that undergird – if not obviate – the concept of trust.

Monday, 16 July, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Julia
Stephens

Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement.

Monday, 8 October, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Alf
Gunvald

One of the foundational mythologies of sociological Eurocentrism pivots on the proposition that political modernity originated in the West.

Monday, 30 July, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Carina
Truyts

This paper operationalises a concept of nourishment in relation to an ethnographic account of a day at a soup kitchen in Kylemore, in the Dwars river Valley, South Africa.

POLS4033 & POLS7036 The State in Africa

Wednesday, 18 July, 2018 - 13:30

The first and introductory meeting for this course (POLS4033 & 7036 The State in Africa) wil

WiSER in 2018

WiSER in 2018

 

Monday, 21 May, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Siphiwe Ignatius
Dube

The idea of a specific configuration called an “African Political Theology” (henceforth APT) raises a number of interrelated questions centred on definition (nomenclature), tradition (relationships), and development (sustainability).

Monday, 14 May, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Rogers
Joshua
Orock
Walker

Suspicion. The term evokes so many moods, so much affect, used as ways of reading the world: uncertainty, fear, anxiety, doubt, and the unknown. But also their opposites: faith, trust, confidence, certainty, the known and knowable. Is suspicion the defining feature of our times?

Monday, 28 May, 2018 - 15:00

Presented by: 

Charne
& Meg
Lavery
Samuelson

This paper proposes the oceanic south to navigate various conceptions of southness, while registering a more turbulent alterity and materiality than they sometimes admit.

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