The WISER Podcast | Season 2 | Episode 2 by Terry Kurgan
In Episode 2 of Season 2 of The WISER Podcast, Terry Kurgan discusses two photographs, each found in her father’s possession, and both taken on the edge of graves, one in Ein al-Beida, Palestine and the other in a forest just outside the town of Panevėžys in Lithuania. She considers the two photographs as entry points to a new book she has just begun that will traverse perhaps the darkest period of mid-twentieth century European and Middle Eastern History.
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Terry Kurgan is a visual artist and writer based in Johannesburg. Her recent publication, Everyone is Present, written while she was a Writing Fellow and Artist in Residence at WiSER, won South Africa’s premier literary prize, the 2019 Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. It was also shortlisted for the 2019 Photo Arles Book Prize, and selected as a Finalist for the 2019 New York based National Jewish Book Awards. Terry is currently a Research Associate at WISER, working on a new book project, and co-director of the independent publishing project, Fourthwall Books. www.terrykurgan.com
Podcasts
The WISER Podcast | Episode 7 with Nolwazi Mkhwanazi
In the latest episode of The WISER Podcast, Nolwazi Mkhwanazi speaks about Childbirth, Natality and 'Young’ Families.
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Nolwazi Mkhwanazi an Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology at WISER. She leads the Institute’s programme in Medical Humanities. She is the co-editor and co-author, amongst many other publications, of Young Families: Gender, Sexuality and Care and of Connected Lives: Families, Households, Health and Care in Contemporary South Africa.
The WISER Podcast | Episode 6 with Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Dr. Tinashe Mushakavanhu is currently a postdoctoral fellow at WiSER. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kent. His forthcoming book is Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020).
WISER Podcast | Episode 5 with Achille Mbembe and Dilip Menon
In the latest two-part episode of The WISER Podcast, Professors Achille Mbembe and Dilip Menon explore the newly published book Capitalisms - A Global History, co-edited by Dilip Menon and Kaveh Yasdani and published by Oxford University Press.
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Professor Achille Mbembe is a world-renowned theorist, public intellectual and Professor of History and Politics at WISER. Professor Dilip Menon is Mellon Chair in Indian Studies and Director of CISA at Wits.
WISER Podcast | Episode 4 with Richard Rottenburg
New Podcast Episode: 'Logistics, Blackness and Spatialities'
Dear friends of WISER,
In Episode 2 of The WISER Podcast, Dr Mpho Matsipa and Bronwyn Kotzen explore similarities in their work relating to space, race, and the politics of cement.
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Mpho Matsipa joined WiSER as a Research Fellow in April 2019. She completed her PhD in Environmental Design in Developing Countries at the University of California, Berkeley. Mpho is currently the curator of the African Mobilities Project. She divides her time between the Wits School of Architecture and Planning, where she holds a position as lecturer in design and urban research, and WISER.
Bronwyn Kotzen joined WISER as a Visiting Research Fellow in January 2020. Bronwyn is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Cape Town. Her doctoral research focuses on the political economy of materiality in urban Africa by tracing Pan-African cement flows and is supported by Emory University’s African Critical Enquiry Programme and the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust. Bronwyn’s broader research explores the interstices between materiality, politics and place in rapidly developing urban centres.
The WISER Podcast
Welcome to The WISER Podcast! Published weekly, the podcast features conversations, talks and audio-essays from WISER.
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Podcast of Public Lectures from 2015's JWTC
Public lectures from the 2015 Session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, held at WiSER and the Adler Museum, Wits University, Johannesburg.
A Podcast of Consent, Rights, and the Regulation of Youth Sexuality in South Africa
A podcast of our recent seminar on consent, rights, and the regulation of childhood and adolescent sexuality in South Africa.
Video Podcast | Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia
(videos are listed in the order in which the panels took place)
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Introduction: Sarah Nuttall
Panel One: Africa in Diasporic and Continental Imagination
Xolela Mangcu, "The Idea of Africa in Black South African Political Thought"
Achille Mbembe, "Futures of Pan-Africanism"
Panel 2: Exile, Pan-African and Diasporic Solidarity
Nomboniso Gasa, Mandla Langa, Raimi Gbadamosi
Panel 3: Xenophobia and African Migrants' Experiences (Bureaucracy, Documents and the Police)
Ingrid Palmary, Shose Kessi
Panel Four: The Making of the 'Foreign National'
Niq Mhlongo, Tawana Kupe
Round Table: Redrawing Colonial Boundaries: Pan-Africanism, Nationalism, and Cosmopolitanism
Adam Habib, Gilbert Khadiagala (respondent), Eusebius McKaiser (moderator)
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Panel One: South Africa in the Geopolitics of the Continent
Adekeye Adebajo, Gilbert Khadiagala, Anthony Bizos
Panel Two: The Gateway to Africa? South African Capital in the Continent
Lucy Corkin
AND
Remarks by Moeletsi Mbeki
Panel Three: Africa in the South African Curriculum: Expanding the Boundaries of Knowledge
Michael Neocosmos
Suren Pillay
Concluding Session: The Africa We Want
Address by David Makhura, Premier of Gauteng
Podcast: Achille Mbembe's Public Lecture 'Decolonizing the University'
Achille Mbembe's public lecture 'Decolonizing the University: Five New Directions,' presented at WiSER on 22 April 2015.
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