The WiSER Podcast | Season Five
We are pleased to announce that later this week, Season Five of The WiSER Podcast will be launched. The Institute will release episodes every ten days or so between June and October. The first four seasons of The WiSER Podcast attracted over 28 000 listeners and we invite you to tune in to our new season’s offerings, featuring the work of WiSER researchers. Most episodes will be 15 minutes long and can be listened to via a range of social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, Apple and Spotify. We encourage you to circulate episodes you find compelling via your own channels. Upcoming episodes include -
Rekgotsofetse Chikane in discussion with his father Rev Frank Chikane focuses on the extraordinary fact that they were both, in different eras of South African politics, accused of treason – by the apartheid and the post-apartheid state – and what these experiences meant for them and for each other.
Tim Wright explores a small and fascinating node of vampire culture in Johannesburg and ways in which Joburg vampires become caught up in the networks and economies of the city.
Caio Simoes De Araujo talks about the new Maputo-Katembe bridge, linking Mozambique and South Africa and what it tells us about shifting, infrastructurally mediated relations in the region, not least by Chinese interests.
Simon van Schalkwyk discusses our new nuclear age, the re-emergence of a long latent Cold War atavism, including the politics of containment and psycho-warfare. Online ‘nuke maps’ mean you can now simulate he effects of nuclear strikes anywhere in the world. He sets the location for Braamfontain, Johannesburg and sees what (would) happen.
And much more….
The WiSER Podcast Team this year is convened by Sarah Nuttall, sound editing by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh and designs by Bronwyn Kotzen.
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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).
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.
The WISER Podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
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.
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.
Listen on our website or subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
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.
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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 our recent seminar on consent, rights, and the regulation of childhood and adolescent sexuality in South Africa.
(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
Achille Mbembe's public lecture 'Decolonizing the University: Five New Directions,' presented at WiSER on 22 April 2015.
A podcast of Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel's recent seminar Living Together/Living Apart: The Complexity of Home'.
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