Past Events

These are the events hosted at WISER. Other events and press notices are here.

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# Date Title Event Type WISER Research Theme
42 Sep 23 Digital Infrastructure, China, and the Reorganization of Dependency Seminars
41 Sep 21 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Session with Ryan Bishop | September 21, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
40 Sep 21 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Session with Ryan Bishop | September 21, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
39 Sep 21 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Session with Ryan Bishop | September 21, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
38 Sep 18 New book panel discussion with Joe Studwell of How Africa Works Book Launches, AFRIPOLECON Trust
37 Sep 17 The African Humanities after the AI rupture : A chatham house lunchtime seminar Collaborations, Seminars Knowledge Futures, Trust
36 Sep 16 Networks, Institutions and the Failure of the Survey Law of 1874 in the Transvaal Seminars Trust
35 Sep 14 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Session with Philip Miller | September 14, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
34 Sep 8 20 YEARS OF FACES AND PHASES - Opening event and Exhibition | 8 September | 5pm | WiSER Advertisements Governing Intimacies
33 Sep 2 (Self-)purchase, obligation and the financial lives of enslaved and manumitted people in nineteenth-century Cape Town Seminars Trust
32 Sep 2 INVITATION: Pro VC Lecture by Professor Carlos Lopes - 2 Sept - 1pm - WiSER Advertisements Governing Intimacies
31 Aug 31 INVITE | Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Session with Madhumita Lahiri | August 31, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
30 Aug 26 Credit mechanisms in nineteenth-century Timbuktu: Evidence of merchant banking in the Arabic documents of Saharan and We Seminars Trust
29 Aug 24 INVITE | Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Opening Session with Mia Couto | August 24, 4-5pm SAST Seminars Climate crises
28 Aug 19 Household, Future-making and Debt Seminars Trust
27 Aug 19 Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining, Formalisation, and the Social Infrastructure of Work Seminars Climate crises, Law and Personhood
26 Aug 17 INVITE | Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Third Session with Vulindlela Nyoni | Aug 17, 4-5pm SAST Public Events Climate crises
25 Aug 12 The costs of foreign capital Seminars Trust
24 Aug 5 Liberated Africans and the abolition of debt imprisonment in the Gambia colony under the British West African Settlement Seminars Trust
23 Aug 3 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Second Session with William Kentridge | 3 Aug | 4-5pm SAST Seminars Climate crises
22 Jul 31 After Memory: Dementia Narratives in and from the Global South  Advertisements Medical Humanities in Africa
21 Jul 29 Intertwined vines: Homophily among French Huguenots in eighteenth-century Cape Colony Seminars Trust
20 Jul 27 INVITE | Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Opening Session with Nancy Jacobs | July 27, 4-5pm SAST Advertisements Climate crises
19 Jun 1 The Civil History of Biometric Computers : Linking the 1960s African Independences to the Rise of Western Security Infra Seminars Trust
18 May 25 Between crisis and refusal: academic freedom as public argument Seminars Trust
17 May 19 Queering the Archive: Indenture Aesthetics and South African Blackness | Jordache A. Ellapen Advertisements Knowledge Futures
16 May 18 AI-Driven Disinformation and Political Influence on WhatsApp in South Africa’s 2024 Elections Seminars Trust
15 May 13 WiCDS Wednesday, 13 May. 'Sociology Hesitant: Du Bois and the multiple consciousnesses of being Black' Advertisements Governing Intimacies
14 May 11 The Mau Mau Passbook : from Fingerprint of Empire Seminars Trust
13 May 6 Seminar by Isabel Hofmeyr and Lucy Graham | RE-READING CAMỐES | OCEAN WORLDS, CONTACT AND THE INDIAN OCEAN FROM SOUTHERN Advertisements Climate crises
12 May 4 African Land buying Syndicates in Natal, 1850-1920 Seminars Trust
11 Apr 20 Expressions and Emotion Detection from Reading Faces (Routledge, 2026) Seminars Trust
10 Apr 13 Risk, Data, Alignment: Making Credit Scoring Work in Kenya Seminars Trust
9 Mar 31 INVITE | Book Talk by Kirk Sides on Environmental Entanglements: African Literature’s Ecological Imaginary | 31 March | Book Launches Climate crises
8 Mar 30 Harambee Co-operative Savings and Credit Society: Wealth, Inequality, and Accumulation in 1970s Kenya Seminars Trust
7 Mar 16 “Why Are We Here? Money.”: Industrial Theatre and the Cultural Logics of Extraction in South Africa Seminars Trust
6 Mar 9 Foreign Aid and the Governance of Digital National Identification in Nepal Seminars Trust
5 Mar 2 Brokers of citizenship. Justices of the peace as intermediaries in Sierra Leone’s digital identification project Seminars Trust
4 Feb 26 Justice, Climate and Extraction: Rethinking Global Justice from the South Public Events Climate crises, Law and Personhood, Trust
3 Feb 23 Withheld in Trust: Withholding-while-Giving in Parastatal Philanthropy Seminars Trust
2 Feb 20 African Trust Infrastructures : Call for Doctoral Fellowship Applications Advertisements Trust
1 Feb 20 Post-Doctoral Fellowship Applications Advertisements Trust