Seminars

African Conceptions of Person as Gendered, Ableist and Anti-queer

Monday, 13 March, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Nompumelelo Zinhle
Manzini

This research aims to indicate the sense in which African conceptions of persons can be considered gendered, ableist and anti-queer. In making the case for this I look at the Force Thesis, Shadow Thesis and Ifeanyi Menkiti’s normative conception of person.

Moving Image as chronotope of the Colonial Imagination

Monday, 20 March, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Bettina
Malcomess

This paper would like to explore some of my initial research for my PhD in film studies around the role of film in the production of the colonial imagination.

WISER Interrogating Political Economy Seminar : Economization

Friday, 24 March, 2017 - 12:30

The next reading group meeting of the WISER Interrogating Political Economy series will take plac

VULNERABILITIES OF THE IMAGE: Cedric Nunn & Coloured Family in Struggle

Monday, 27 March, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Candice
Jansen

Cedric Nunn (b.1957-) is a South African anti-apartheid photographer and a long time biographic chronicler of identity. Classified as coloured, yet self-identifying as black, Nunn resisted the complicity that was inextricable from coloured classification during apartheid.

Drone Publics?

Wednesday, 29 March, 2017 - 12:30

WiSER invites you to a lunch time seminar by

Manichean Delirium (In the Time of Jacob Zuma)

Monday, 3 April, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Richard
Pithouse

In 1961 Frantz Fanon, seriously weakened by leukaemia, and aware that his life was rapidly coming to an end, dictated his last thoughts in a flat in Tunis. The Damned of the Earth was published at the end of that year, shortly after his death.

Cultural Solidarities

Friday, 7 April, 2017 - 08:30

AMfecaneRICA, 1650-1850: What can Historians of Native America Learn from Southern Africanists?

Monday, 10 April, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Gregory
Dowd

For the period that we might loosely call "late pre-industrial" in both Southern Africa and North America: What was the relationship between colonialism and profound indigenous developments--new social formations, family arrangements, scales of war, relationships with the environment, a

Building the Constitution

Thursday, 20 April, 2017 - 15:30

The Tank Hill Party: Generational Politics and Decolonization in East Africa

Monday, 24 April, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Edgar
Taylor

A drinking party in Kampala in December 1963 nearly precipitated a breakdown in East Africa’s nascent postcolonial social and political orders.

African Architecture, Education and Possibility in the 1960s

Monday, 15 May, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Daniel
Magaziner

This paper considers the history of an experiment in architectural education that took place at what is today the University of Nairobi, between 1965 – 1967.

"You can write and remember but we are simply izithunguthu'"

Monday, 22 May, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Cynthia
and John
Kros
Wright

The isiZulu word ‘isithunguthu’ (pl. izithunguthu) is today hardly known outside a small circle of scholars. It does not appear in modern isiZulu dictionaries, nor is it known to isiZulu-speaking academics whom we have consulted. There is no entry for it in A.T.

Class, State and the crisis of legitimacy in the Arab World

Wednesday, 24 May, 2017 - 17:30

The Afro-Middle East Centre and WiSER invite you to a seminar by Adam Hanieh.

The Role of Women in Election Violence

Friday, 26 May, 2017 - 12:30

WiSER and IFAS-Research invite you to a lunch time seminar by

Future Knowledges

Monday, 29 May, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Achille
Mbembe

This paper is a work in progress. Key references, including quotations, are missing. Please do not circulate. The remarks I am about to make are shaped in no small part - but not exclusively - by the turmoil in South African academy over the last two years.

Getting Started with Zotero

Thursday, 1 June, 2017 - 14:30

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The apartheid historian’s struggle: black betrayal and its effects

Monday, 5 June, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Robyn
Bloch

In his 2014 book Askari: A Story of Collaboration and Betrayal in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle historian Jacob Dlamini considers why collaborator Glory Sedibe turned from being a commander in the ANC’s military arm to working with fervour for the apartheid Security Branch.

Does economics have an ‘Africa Problem’? Some data and preliminary thoughts

Monday, 12 June, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Grieve
Chelwa

There has been increasing interest (particularly on online forums) on the apparent underrepresentation of African-based scholars in economics scholarship on Africa.

Intimacies of Care

Wednesday, 14 June, 2017 - 08:30

The Politics of Dread

Thursday, 27 July, 2017 - 11:30

The single source of truth about Kenyans : collateral mysteries, credit information and Safaricom

Monday, 31 July, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Keith
Breckenridge

This paper examines the recent history of population registration and credit surveillance in Kenya.  It argues that the events taking place there are important because they mark out the development of new kinds of administratively created informational collateral which, for the first time, m

Decoloniality as Travelling Theory: Or What Decoloniality is not

Monday, 7 August, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
William
Mpofu

I seek to apply and expand Edward Said’s 1982 concept of travelling theory to discuss the state of decoloniality in the South African university now.

private/public government of communities

Monday, 14 August, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Juan
Obarrio

Maputo, mid-2000s.

Locations of African and African Diaspora Critical Thought

Tuesday, 15 August, 2017 - 09:30

Within the domain of critical thought, it is clear that the Western archive is in danger of being

Sound on Water

Saturday, 19 August, 2017 - 08:30

Cures and Side Effects: Feminist Reform and Law in India

Thursday, 24 August, 2017 - 12:30

The Governing Intimacies Project invites you to a seminar by Srimati Basu

History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement

Monday, 28 August, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Jim
Campbell

Nations, as Isabel Hofmeyr long ago observed, are forged, in part, from words. Many, perhaps most, of those words are in the nature of history, stories of the past that provide explanation, justification, a charter for present arrangements. What are the politics of this process?

Popular Theorizing on albinism and the human in Eastern Africa: Exploration of Tanzanian experience.

Monday, 4 September, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Benson A
Mulemi

Partial or complete absence of the melanin pigment in the skin, eyes, and hair shape varied cultural expressions and labels denoting albinos or persons with albinism (PWA).

Symposium : Medical Memoirs

Wednesday, 6 September, 2017 - 08:30

08:30-08:45     Introduction: Sarah Nuttall

Neoliberalism and the techno-politics of Apartheid

Monday, 18 September, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Faeeza
Ballim

It is well-established in the South African historiography that the apartheid government adopted a new “language of legitimation” (Posel, 1984) in the aftermath of the 1976 student uprisings.

WISER Interrogating Political Economy Seminar : Brautigam on China in Africa

Friday, 29 September, 2017 - 12:30

Please note that this event has been rescheduled for

Historicizing Public Oncology in Rwanda: From Geographies of Incidence to Onco-Nationhood (1915-2015)

Monday, 2 October, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Darja
Djordjevic

This paper examines the various types of experimentation that are built into the practice of oncology within Rwanda’s developing national infrastructure, with a focus on historicizing malignancy there by examining trajectories of research and treatment from the early 20th century until the

The shaping of legal consciousness through the experience of short-term incarceration

Monday, 16 October, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Thato
Masiangoako

South Africa’s legal system forms part of the lifeline of its democratic dispensation and is the foundation upon which it depends. It is crucial for social demands for service delivery, ensuring protection and general relief from the state for civil society.

Queer activism as governmentality: regulating lesbian lives in India

Monday, 23 October, 2017 - 15:00
Presented by: 
Srila
Roy

In this paper, which draws from a book manuscript in progress on feminist/queer politics in India, I show how ‘activism’ is informed by multiple rationalities and techniques of governing the self and other.

Zotero Workshop : Basics

Thursday, 2 November, 2017 - 13:30

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