Seminars

The Body and City Space

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

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY + MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

Africa in Theory

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

The Planetary Library Project

Knowledge Futures

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

Knowledge Futures

The Climate of Race

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

THE CLIMATE OF RACE

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

Toxicity, Waste, Detritus

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

The Face of Fascism

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

WiSER invites you to a lunchtime seminar by

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.

Writing the City from Below

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

WiSER invites you to a lunch time seminar by

Transplant

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

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

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.

Clements Kadalie and the language of freedom

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

WISER invites you to a seminar by David Johnson

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture

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

 WiSER invites you to a talk by

"Now I am not scared": Transnational HIV/AIDS Activism through the lens of Simon Nkoli

Monday, 4 April, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Yasmina
Martin
Antiapartheid and gay rights activist Simon Nkoli founded the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand (GLOW) in 1988 and took risks, first by coming out while in prison for his antiapartheid work, then by coming out as living with HIV/AIDS.

Small matter of truth

Thursday, 24 March, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
David
Cohen

‘A drug, like a scalpel, in an unskilled hand is a dangerous weapon…’ : South African struggles over pharmaceutical regulatory authority, 1930s to 1960s

Monday, 14 March, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Julie
Parle
Worldwide, including in South Africa, from late 1961, the 'thalidomide disaster' demonstrated, unequivocally, the urgency of the implementation of regulatory policies and entities with the power and the capacity to ensure the ‘quality, safety and efficacy’ of medicines.

Workshops with Graham Furniss

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

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

Musseque Nation: Uncivil Citizens and Urban Space in Luanda, Angola

Monday, 7 March, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Claudia
Gastrow
This paper explores the the making of citizenship through ideologies and imaginations of architecture and urban space in Luanda, Angola.

Face Values: Trust and Suspicion in Democratic Republic of Congo

Monday, 29 February, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Joshua
Walker
This paper, a draft article, looks at the different forms that suspicion and its obverse, trust, take in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Aesthetic Injustice

Monday, 22 February, 2016 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Samantha
Vice
I want to make a very limited claim in this paper, and base it on an old­fashioned view. The limited claim is that certain kinds of deprivation of aesthetic experience count as an injustice.

PhD Presentation Lumkile Mondi

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 5 February, 2016 - 09:16
Seminars
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
Seminars
Wednesday, 7 October, 2015 - 12:30

WiSER invites you to a seminar by

Photography and Archive

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 28 September, 2015 - 10:46
Seminars
Saturday, 3 October, 2015 - 10:30

Post-Postcolonial: Figaro South of the Zambesi

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 14 September, 2015 - 10:18
Seminars
Friday, 2 October, 2015 - 12:30

A seminar presented by Danny Herwitz.  Participants should ple

The New Middle Class in the Global South

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 September, 2015 - 02:09
Seminars
Wednesday, 23 September, 2015 - 16:30

WiSER will be hosting a two-day workshop: The New Middle Class in the Global South, on 21

Humanitarian/Consumer?

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 September, 2015 - 15:18
Seminars
Wednesday, 16 September, 2015 - 16:45

WiSER invites you to a public panel

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