Seminars

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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

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.

A Nervous State

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

"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.

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

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.

Philosophy: Uncommon Sense

Tuesday, 11 October, 2016 - 12:30
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A City’s Memory: Kigali 22 Years after the Rwandan Genocide

Wednesday, 12 October, 2016 - 12:30

WiSER invites you to a lunchtime seminar by

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

Wednesday, 7 September, 2016 - 11:30

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

Africa in Theory

Tuesday, 23 August, 2016 - 09:30

The Planetary Library Project

The Body and City Space

Wednesday, 31 August, 2016 - 11:30

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY + MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

Knowledge Futures

Monday, 15 August, 2016 - 09:30

Knowledge Futures

The Climate of Race

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

Thursday, 16 June, 2016 - 12:30

WiSER invites you to a lunchtime seminar by

Writing the City from Below

Wednesday, 1 June, 2016 - 12:30

WiSER invites you to a lunch time seminar by

Transplant

Wednesday, 1 June, 2016 - 11:30

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE LUNCH HOUR 

Clements Kadalie and the language of freedom

Thursday, 26 May, 2016 - 12:30

WISER invites you to a seminar by David Johnson

Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture

Friday, 15 April, 2016 - 12:30

 WiSER invites you to a talk by

Workshops with Graham Furniss

Thursday, 10 March, 2016 - 10:30

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

Toxicity, Waste, Detritus

Friday, 8 July, 2016 - 08:30

PhD Presentation Lumkile Mondi

Saturday, 6 February, 2016 - 11:30

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