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
91 Nov 25 Invitation | Book Panel | Luise White - Fighting and Writing | November 25 at 6pm Book Launches Locations of African Critical Theory
90 Nov 22 The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy. Seminars
89 Nov 19 ARUA CoE Identities Workshop for Early Career Scholars Programme : (Un)Official Identification for Health Collaborations, Public Events Law and Personhood
88 Nov 15 What is degradation? Seminars
87 Nov 12 The WISER Podcast | Season 4 | The Collection Public Events Knowledge Futures
86 Nov 9 Second Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium Public Events Knowledge Futures
85 Nov 8 Grounding the paradox of cohesion and contestation in public space Seminars
84 Nov 4 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The Art of Meleko Mokgosi | Part 2 Public Events Knowledge Futures
83 Oct 28 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The Art of Meleko Mokgosi | Part 1 Public Events Knowledge Futures
82 Oct 27 INVITE | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 9 by Helen A. Neville & Lou Turner | 27 October | 6pm Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
81 Oct 26 Seminar co-hosted with the Forge | Tom Lodge | The changing sociology of South African Communism, 1921-2021 | Tuesday, Seminars Public Positions on History and Politics, Locations of African Critical Theory
80 Oct 25 Experts of the Surface and Underground: Cartography and Geological Knowledge in the Territorial Construction of the Witb Seminars
79 Oct 18 Magic mountain: ‘The ancestors cannot be relocated’ Seminars
78 Oct 14 FINAL : The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER Twenty | Part 3 | Inside WISER Public Events Knowledge Futures
77 Oct 11 (Hetero)Topologies of an Eastern Cape Province Nature Reserve Seminars
76 Oct 4 Planetary forests: Remote sensing, field sciences and carbon markets in Central Africa Seminars
75 Sep 30 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The End of Mugabe Public Events Knowledge Futures
74 Sep 29 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | DREAD by David Theo Goldberg | 29 Sept | 6pm (SA time) Advertisements Knowledge Futures
73 Sep 27 Laboring for whiteness: The rise of Trumpism and what it tells us about racial and gendered capitalism in the United Sta Seminars
72 Sep 23 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER’s 20th anniversary | Part 2 Advertisements Knowledge Futures
71 Sep 16 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER’s 20th anniversary | Part Public Events Knowledge Futures
70 Sep 13 The Troubled Promised Land: Political Theology in South Sudan Seminars
69 Sep 8 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | Feminism-Generation-Activism Public Events Knowledge Futures
68 Sep 6 Animist Eco-logics: The Speculative Ecosystems of Amos Tutuola Seminars
67 Sep 2 The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | Part 1&2 Public Events Knowledge Futures
66 Sep 1 INVITE | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 8 by Makhosazana Xaba | 1 September | 6pm Public Positions Knowledge Futures
65 Sep 1 Joy Symposium | 1st and 2nd September Advertisements Knowledge Futures
64 Aug 30 The Formulation of the 'Coloured Question' (1932-1950) Seminars
63 Aug 23 From travel to arrival: mapping intersectionality’s landings in the Global South  Seminars
62 Aug 14 POSTPONED Metropolitan Factor in the Crisis of Nation-Building in Africa: The British Incomplete Decolonization of the B Seminars
61 Aug 12 The Forge, WISER and C150GAP Panel : What is at stake in the destruction of a city? Public Events Public Positions on History and Politics, Law and Personhood, Locations of African Critical Theory
60 Aug 11 INVITE | On Violence: an intergenerational conversation about women's resistance | 11 Aug | 5pm Advertisements Knowledge Futures
59 Aug 11 Afridig : Getting Started with Omeka S Collaborations Digital Humanities
58 Aug 4 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | THE NEW APARTHEID by Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh | 4 August | 6pm (SA time) Book Launches Knowledge Futures
57 Aug 2 Rhodes, violence and the statue at Oriel College, Oxford Seminars
56 Jul 29 Programme in African Digital Humanities : Presentations Collaborations Digital Humanities
55 Jul 28 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | NATION ON THE COUCH - Inside South Africa's Mind by Wahbie Long | 28 July | 6 Book Launches Knowledge Futures, Locations of African Critical Theory
54 Jul 28 The New Apartheid Book Launch Book Launches Knowledge Futures
53 Jul 21 INVITE | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 7 on Fanon Reading Hegel | 21 July | 6pm Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
52 Jul 16 WIPES | Public Panel Discussion of Yuen Yuen Ang's China's Gilded Age : the Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Public Events, Seminars Public Positions on History and Politics, Knowledge Futures
51 Jul 6 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | The Collection Advertisements Knowledge Futures
50 Jun 28 Exploring Omeka S for Digital Cultural Heritage Seminars Digital Humanities
49 Jun 25 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | | ON WATER : International Contemporary Writing Public Events Oceanic Humanities
48 Jun 21 Launch of Beinart and Dubow Scientific Imagination in South Africa Book Launches Knowledge Futures
47 Jun 21 Criminal Faces: Beauty, Race and Criminality in Western Thought and the Development of Digital Profiling Seminars
46 Jun 14 The Labour-drug Question in precarious times: The rise of Heroin and Xanax Seminars
45 Jun 10 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson | 10 June | 6pm Public Events Knowledge Futures
44 Jun 10 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature by Ato Quayson | 10 June | 6pm Book Launches Knowledge Futures
43 Jun 10 Language Webinar Public Events Knowledge Futures
42 Jun 8 Seminar with Sakiru Adebayo: Ethics and Transnationality of Memory Public Events Knowledge Futures
41 Jun 8 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | China Africa Futures | thinking beyond conspiracy Public Events Knowledge Futures
40 Jun 7 ‘Interlocking Transactions’: Micro-foundations for ‘Racial Capitalism’ Seminars
39 Jun 3 Invite | HINTERLANDS - A Project in the Rural, Literary and Environmental Humanities | 3 June Public Events Knowledge Futures
38 Jun 2 INVITE | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 6 by Emily Apter | 2 June | 6pm Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
37 May 31 The Impasses of Politics: Sexual Violence and the ANC in Exile Seminars
36 May 27 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | REGIONS 2050 | Mobility, Extraction, Circulation - Part 2 Public Events Knowledge Futures
35 May 25 2021 Africa Day Celebration Advertisements Knowledge Futures
34 May 24 Fostering Decoloniality in Music: From Local Archives to Global Dialogue Seminars
33 May 17 Modernist/Modernising South Africa Seminars
32 May 13 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | REGIONS 2050 | Mobility, Extraction, Circulation - Part 1 Public Events Public Positions on History and Politics, Knowledge Futures
31 May 10 The Long Road to Compensation for Silicosis Sufferers in South Africa Seminars
30 May 10 The Formulation of the 'Coloured Question' (1932-1950) Seminars
29 May 10 “A ghost has rights too. The paradox of Dambudzo Marechera’s post-death legacy” Book Launches Knowledge Futures
28 May 6 The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | Lost Books: Narratives Of Absent Texts Public Events Knowledge Futures
27 May 5 Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 5 by Azeen Khan and Carolyn Urena | 5 May | 6pm (SA Time) Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics, Knowledge Futures, Locations of African Critical Theory
26 May 4 INVITE | Book Launch and Discussion | GENETIC AFTERLIVES - Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa by Noah Tamarkin | 4 Book Launches Knowledge Futures
25 May 4 WISER invites you to the launch of Noah Tamarkin's Genetic Afterlives : Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Book Launches Public Positions on History and Politics, Medical Humanities in Africa
24 Apr 30 Call for Papers | Hinterlands - A Project in the Rural, Literary and Environmental Humanities Advertisements Knowledge Futures
23 Apr 29 The WISER Podcast | The Futures of the Constitution | Part 2 Advertisements Knowledge Futures
22 Apr 28 The Planetary Library | Achille Mbembe and Homi Bhabha in conversation | 28 April | 6pm (SA Time) Advertisements Knowledge Futures
21 Apr 22 Today we release Part One of The WISER Podcast’s next mini-series, The Futures of the Constitution. It draws on research Advertisements Knowledge Futures
20 Apr 21 Invite | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 4 by Camille Robcis | 21 April | 6pm (SA Time) Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics, Knowledge Futures
19 Apr 19 Orlando Patterson’s analyses of slavery as an intervention into debates around the political economy of the “Third World Seminars
18 Apr 15 The WISER Podcast | Travelling Technology | Big infrastructures, small devices | Part 2 Advertisements Knowledge Futures
17 Apr 12 The New Religious Political Right in South Africa Seminars
16 Apr 8 The WISER Podcast | Travelling Technology | Big infrastructures, small devices | Part 1 Public Events Knowledge Futures
15 Apr 8 Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 3 by Achille Mbembe | 7 April | 6pm (SA Time) Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
14 Apr 5 INVITE | Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 5 by Azeen Khan and Carolyn Urena | 5 May | 6pm (SA Time) Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
13 Mar 31 The WISER Podcast | Eight ways to think Unsettlement Part 2 Public Events Knowledge Futures
12 Mar 29 What we can learn from the data about metropolitan political economies? Seminars
11 Mar 25 The WISER Podcast | Eight ways to think Unsettlement Public Events Knowledge Futures
10 Mar 23 Freedom, Property and Markets Seminars
9 Mar 18 Public Positions: Fanon After Fanon I Session 2 by Gavin Arnall and Robyn Marasco | 17 March | 6pm (SA Time) Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
8 Mar 15 Potential History - Unlearning Imperialism Seminars
7 Mar 8 Book discussion of The Fixer : Visa Lottery Chronicles Seminars
6 Mar 5 Invite | Eight Ways of Thinking Unsettlement | 4 March | 5pm Collaborations Locations of African Critical Theory
5 Mar 4 WIPES | Property and Political Order | March WISER Political Economy Seminar -- WIPES African Futures
4 Mar 1 Funding of the Vaccine and the general implications of budget 2021 for inclusive growth and reduction of poverty Seminars
3 Feb 26 They Called You Dambudzo Virtual Launch with Tinashe Mushakavanhu Public Events Knowledge Futures
2 Feb 25 Public Positions | 2021- FANON AFTER FANON | Session 1 Young & Khalfa Public Positions Public Positions on History and Politics
1 Feb 17 Book Launch and Discussion of Lesley Green's Rock | Water | Life - Ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Af Book Launches Knowledge Futures