Class Acts: is the Concept of Class Still Alive in the Social Sciences?
The Politics of Publishing in South Africa
Contemporary Mozambique: Histories of the Present (Co-hosted by School of Social Sciences)
Punishment and Incarceration. Is South Africa a punitive society?
Methodologies of Household Surveying Ann Case (Princeton University)
Ritualisation of the State: Neo-popular State Rituals in Mozambique and South Africa Convenors: A
Barthes: The Rise & Development of Semiotics Susan van Zyl (Grad School, University of the Wi
Historical Materialism: Marx on Science, Truth & History Prof Deborah Posel (WISER)
Muslim Cultures http://www.
New Acoustic Regimes: Rethinking Music & Sound In collaboration with the Wits School of Arts<
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Achille Mbembe (WISER), Sue van Zyl (Wits) Theory Seminar - open to PhD students & Faculty Wo
Hegel and the Philosophical Project of Modernity Peter Hudson (Political Studies, University of t
Biography
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Tina Sideris (WISER) h
Key Concepts in Kant's Metaphysics Michael Pitman (Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand)
Wits Workshop on Law and Society University of the Witwatersrand JohannesburgOrganized by the Wit
Prize Fights: Current Contests in South African Literary Culture
Kant on Enlightenment and the Cosmopolitan Ideal Achille Mbembe (WISER, University of the Witwate
Cultural Politics of Blackness
Indian and South African Writers in Conversation: A one-day colloquium
The Ethics of Immanuel Kant Thad Metz (Philosophy, University of the Witwatersrand)
Critical Ethnographies of Globalisation Gillian Hart (Berkeley, USA)
Theorizing the Present John & Jean Comaroff (University of Chicago)
Workshop: http://wiser
The Limits of Historical Invention Carolyn Hamilton (Graduate School of the Humanities, Universit
In the Presence of Faith An interdisciplinary symposium on Southern African studies of religion c
Mapping a Contact-Zone: The Southern Indian Ocean Francoise Verges (University of London)
The Enlightenment and the Philosophical Project of Modernity Peter Hudson (Political Studies, Uni
THE LIFE OF THE CORPSE
Achille Mbembe (WISER) http://
Settler Modernity Beth Povinelli (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Ricoeur on the Subject & Truth Achille Mbembe (WISER, University of the Witwatersrand)
Habermas’s Communicative Critique of the Frankfurt School Susan van Zyl (Grad School, University
The story of the voyage (Co-hosted by the Centre of Indian Studies in Africa)
ANOTHER TRY A colloquium on RUGBY
The Fact of Blackness: Reading Fanon Francoise Verges (University of London)
Nadine Gordimer Lecture Series Social Justice in South Africa Today Prof.
South African Literary Studies: A Provocation on the State of the Field
Colloquium on the 100th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s seminal book, Hind Swaraj
Phenomenology, Sartre and the Subject Peter Hudson (Political Studies, University of the Witwater
The Promise of Freedom and its Practice: Global Perspectives on South Africa's Decade of Democrac
For Reasons of Faith: The Role of Religion in Modern Public Life Deadline for the submission of a
Political Travel in the Colonial World chrome://editor/content/blanks/PDF%20Files/Political%20tra
Husserl: the Crisis of European Science Achille Mbembe (WISER, University of the Witwatersrand)
Transnational Methodologies in Historical and Literary Research: The Scottsboro Case in American
Life and Death in a Time of AIDS: the Southern African Experience
