Seminars

Valid Voting? Electoral Integrity and the Role of Pan-African Observers in Advancing Peace and Democratic Governance

Monday, 18 April, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
John
Stremlau
This paper is intended to be an introductory chapter for volume of case studies of international aspects of transitional elections in six or seven African countries.

City as a Creature of Law – Revisiting Windhoek’s Legal Architecture

Monday, 25 April, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Ellison
Tjirera
Incontrovertibly, an understanding of city life in the absence of the legal architecture will be incomplete a picture of the shaping forces at play. Issues of residential zoning, policing and trading are invariably done within parameters of legal provisions.

From 'New Man' to Superman: The politics of work and socialism, from Maputo to Karl-Marx-Stadt, c. 1982

Monday, 9 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Eric
Allina
This paper examines the history of Mozambican workers in East Germany in the later 1970s and 1980s, focusing on young Mozambican men and women who, in a variety of ways, ran afoul of the state-to-state agreement that governed their lives in the GDR.

Livelihoods, the body, and city space.

Monday, 16 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Ngaka
Mosiane
The paper suggests that cities of the global south are making an urban redistribution agenda possible through basic services and social grants provisions.

Race, gender and the South African ‘blood wars’.

Monday, 23 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Simonne
Horwitz
A decade into the ‘new South Africa’ a controversy erupted which centred on the racial profiling of blood donated to the South African Blood Transfusion Services, and in fact, the disposal of blood based on race. Two years later, in 2006, the ‘gay blood war’ broke out.

Provincializing Slavery: Abolition, Law, Slave Subjects

Monday, 30 May, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Taiwo Adetunji
Osinubi
Although the Atlantic slave trade has been fundamental in narratives of African victimhood, it has never taken a proportional space in West African literatures.

Object Agencies: Congolese artifacts as exhibition organisms

Monday, 6 June, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Ruth
Sacks
In the late 19th century, the terms of accumulation of certain Sub Saharan African objects that came to populate museum collections in Euro-America rendered them anonymous.

ID'ing Mozambique's Post-Independence Development and History from 1975 to 1993

Monday, 8 August, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Drew
Thompson
The ID photograph played a central role in Mozambique's national development after its independence from Portugal in 1975, an observation that becomes critical to understanding the possibility that an independent African state like Mozambique was more organized than its colonial predecessor.

Becoming Genetic Jews: Lemba Political Histories of Racial, Religious, and Cultural Difference in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Thursday, 4 August, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Noah
Tamarkin
This paper is a draft of chapter two of my in-progress book manuscript "Genetic Afterlives: Evidencing Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa." This chapter considers the more than one hundred year intellectual history of knowledge production about the Lemba as potential "Semites" and their unsucc

"Worse than Apartheid?" Measuring educational progress since democracy

Monday, 12 September, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Shaun
Franklin
This paper will investigate claims made by a number South African politicians contending that the state of South Africa’s public education system is worse now than it was during apartheid.

A Nervous State

Monday, 19 September, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Nancy
Rose Hunt

An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and its Search for Survival

Monday, 3 October, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Jamie
Miller
A paper centred on my forthcoming book with Oxford University Press (Sept 2016). The book talks about how the apartheid regime sought viability in the post-colonial world.

‘From Young Adults to Teenagers: Sex Education Manuals and the Making of Modern Youth in Apartheid South Africa’

Monday, 10 October, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Sarah Emily
Duff
In ‘From Young Adults to Teenagers: Sex Education Manuals and the Making of Modern Youth in Apartheid South Africa’ I consider the ways in which two sex education manuals published in multiple editions from the early 1950s to the early 2000s, and written by white, male members of the apartheid medic

White on the margin: post-apartheid white poverty and the politics of homogeneity

Monday, 17 October, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Christi
Kruger
After the democratization of South Africa in 1994 white South Africans experienced, generally, a rise in economic power.

Other Universals: India, Africa, the Caribbean and Un-national Thought of the Southern Hemisphere

Monday, 31 October, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Victoria
Collis-Buthelezi
Co-authored with my other co-convener of the Other Universals Workshop Series (Dr.

Philosophy: Uncommon Sense

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 19 September, 2016 - 10:40
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Tuesday, 11 October, 2016 - 12:30
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A City’s Memory: Kigali 22 Years after the Rwandan Genocide

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 15 September, 2016 - 13:51
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Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 - 12:30

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Literary Theory and South-South Comparison: The Case of the São Paulo School

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 31 August, 2016 - 11:51
Seminars
Wednesday, 7 September, 2016 - 11:30

WISER invites you to a talk by Stefan Helgesson, Stockholm University.

Africa in Theory

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 16 August, 2016 - 11:12
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Tuesday, 23 August, 2016 - 09:30

The Planetary Library Project

The Body and City Space

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 16 August, 2016 - 10:52
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Wednesday, 31 August, 2016 - 11:30

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY + MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

Knowledge Futures

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 August, 2016 - 12:47
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Monday, 15 August, 2016 - 09:30

Knowledge Futures

The Climate of Race

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 August, 2016 - 11:08
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Tuesday, 9 August, 2016 - 09:30

THE CLIMATE OF RACE

From proprietorship, public companies to pyramid ownership and control: The evolution of the Financialisation of the South African Economy

Monday, 7 November, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Lumkile
Mondi

The significance of South Africa’s capital markets in the economy is substantial. The country’s stock market is valued at twice the value of output as measured by the Gross Domestic Product.

Everyday identities, formal schooling and the practice of nationalism in Bechuanaland in the early twentieth century

Monday, 5 September, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Khumisho
Moguerane

There is little in the literature of the Silas Molema and Solomon Plaatje presented in this essay: men deeply rooted in the countryside, whose politics were profoundly shaped by institutions there, and whose sensibilities were situated in interpretations of tradition.

The Face of Fascism

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 1 June, 2016 - 11:14
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Thursday, 16 June, 2016 - 12:30

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Writing the City from Below

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 24 May, 2016 - 14:22
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Wednesday, 1 June, 2016 - 12:30

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Transplant

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 19 May, 2016 - 09:44
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Wednesday, 1 June, 2016 - 11:30

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

Clements Kadalie and the language of freedom

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 18 May, 2016 - 11:34
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Thursday, 26 May, 2016 - 12:30

WISER invites you to a seminar by David Johnson

Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 April, 2016 - 17:46
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Friday, 15 April, 2016 - 12:30

 WiSER invites you to a talk by

Workshops with Graham Furniss

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 1 March, 2016 - 10:54
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Thursday, 10 March, 2016 - 10:30

Wits University, WiSER, and African Studies invite you to the following workshops presen

Toxicity, Waste, Detritus

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 23 February, 2016 - 10:21
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Friday, 8 July, 2016 - 08:30

PhD Presentation Lumkile Mondi

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 5 February, 2016 - 09:16
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Saturday, 6 February, 2016 - 11:30

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Fanon in Tunis: Politics and Psychiatry

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 28 September, 2015 - 19:05
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2015 - 12:30

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