Past Events

Book Launches
Presented by Title Date
Sammy Baloji & Filip de Boeck Invitation | "Suturing the City": Discussion with Filip de Boeck and Sammy Baloji | 1 March 2018 | 12:00 02-Mar-2018
Keith Breckenridge Book discussion : Rights to Land 09-Mar-2018
Achille Mbembe NEW DATE | Invitation | Launch of Franz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics | Tuesday 30 July | 1pm 31-Jul-2018
Achille Mbembe Invite - The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital and the State in Contemporary Africa | 15 Aug | 6pm 16-Aug-2018
Isabel Hofmeyr WiSER and African Literature invite you to the launch of Mapule Mohulatsi's book Mizz President 31-Aug-2018
Keith Breckenridge Book Launch : Anne Mager & Phiko Velelo -- House of Tshatshu | 18 Oct | 12:30 pm 18-Oct-2018
Isabel Hofmeyr Book talk by Thomas F. McDow Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean 19-Oct-2018
Zanele Muholi Book Discussion : Zanele Muholi's Somnyama Ngonyama | 25 Oct | 6pm 26-Oct-2018
Collaborations
Presented by Title Date
Keith Breckenridge Call for Proposals : Intellectual and Cultural Life under Conditions of Austerity 11-Feb-2018
Department of Trade and Industry Innovation and Intellectual Property in South Africa 16-May-2018
Keith Breckenridge Intellectual and Cultural Life under Conditions of Austerity 05-Jun-2018
Sarah Nuttall The Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory 2018 Summer School: The Human in Question | Application deadline 9 26-Jun-2018
Shireen Hassim WISER INVITATION : Telling Lives - Truth Lies History | 6 Aug | Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study 07-Aug-2018
Public Events
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Sarah Nuttall Entanglements and Aftermaths: Reflections on Memory and Political Time 23-Feb-2018
Sarah Nuttall WiSER in 2018 23-Feb-2018
Sarah Nuttall Africans In War: A Conversation between Paul Gilroy and William Kentridge 24-Feb-2018
Sarah Nuttall Call for Papers: On Suspicion and the Contemporary - deadline 15 December 2017 02-Mar-2018
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi Invitation | Two events focused on Sex and Sexuality in the Lives of Young South Africans 09-Mar-2018
Sarah Nuttall On Suspicion and the Contemporary 19-Apr-2018
Bruce Janz How Do We Speak Of Our Place? Achille Mbembe's World 23-May-2018
Sarah Nuttall Goethe-Institut and WiSER Invitation: Wits School of Arts DIVA Talk: Special edition with Wolfgang Tillmans 29-Jun-2018
Sarah Nuttall "After Mandela": A Roundtable Colloquium at Stellenbosch University 19-Jul-2018
Achille Mbembe The State against Mandela and the Others | Film & Debate | 23 July 2018 5.30pm 23-Jul-2018
Duncan M. Yoon Toward the Global South Novel: Africa, China, and Bofane's Congo Inc. 26-Jul-2018
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi Invitation | WellSexuality Projects | Tuesday 31 July 5-7pm 01-Aug-2018
Sisonke Msimang WISER and Governing Intimacies Invitation : Discussion of Sisonke Msimang's Always Another Country 08-Aug-2018
Jonathan Klaaren The emotional toll of social justice work in medicine and law 15-Aug-2018
Keith Breckenridge Divinatory computation : the politics of Artificial Intelligence 12-Sep-2018
Seminars
Presented by Title Date
Sarah Nuttall Fugitive/Narrative: Unhomed Texts, Human Rights, and the Broken Road 02-Feb-2018
Benedict Carton Albert Luthuli, the ANC Moses: religious prophecy and the turn to armed struggle 03-Feb-2018
Simamkele Dlakavu “Say No, Black Woman”: The Giant is Falling and the erasure of Black women in South Africa 12-Feb-2018
Saarah Jappie Baas of the Kramat: Muslim place and belonging in 19th and 20th century Cape Town 19-Feb-2018
Elizabeth Hjorth Responsibility in Place: Marlene van Niekerk’s Memorandum: A Story With Paintings 21-Feb-2018
Antonio Tomas Urban Nostalgia: Colonial traces in the postcolonial city of Luanda 26-Feb-2018
Keith Breckenridge What happened to the theory of African capitalism? 05-Mar-2018
Sarah Wild The lifecast cast: an ethico-legal inquiry 12-Mar-2018
Ananya Kabir Between bioscape and sensorium: Creolized dance as Indian Ocean memory 16-Mar-2018
Claudia Gastrow The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Rehousing and Class in Luanda 19-Mar-2018
Renee van der Wiel Doing research that does something: The trope of the exceptional knowledge-producing medical doctor 09-Apr-2018
Cindy Morillas Individualization versus Democratization? Conditions and forms of student activism in authoritarian situation (Cameroon, 16-Apr-2018
David Johnson Literature against Stalinism: South Africa's left opposition, 1930-1960 23-Apr-2018
Isabel Hofmeyr Object-oriented Reading: The View from the Customs House 07-May-2018
Rogers, Joshua Orock, Walker Suspicious Times? 14-May-2018
Jim Mills Cocaine and Colonialism? The origins of Asian markets for modern pharmaceuticals, c. 1900-1945 16-May-2018
Siphiwe Ignatius Dube A Foray into (Study of?) African Political Theology 21-May-2018
Charne, & Meg Lavery, Samuelson The Oceanic South 28-May-2018
Rimli Bhattacharya Cancelled | Transnational perspectives in juvenile literature: Gay-Neck (1927) and Dariyalal (1938) 05-Jul-2018
Sharad Chari Ruinous Foundations of Progressive Segregation: The Birth of Biopolitical Struggle (1920s-1950s) 12-Jul-2018
Julia Stephens Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia 16-Jul-2018
Keith Breckenridge POLS4033 & POLS7036 The State in Africa 18-Jul-2018
Johan Mathew On Principals and Agency: Reassembling Trust in Indian Ocean Commerce 23-Jul-2018
Carina Truyts Fishfinger stew and peach tarts: from hunger to nourishment in the Dwars River Valley 30-Jul-2018
Simone Haysom WISER Invitation -- Heroin Coast: the political economy of the heroin trade along the Indian Ocean seaboard 03-Aug-2018
Ruth Sacks The City Speaks for Itself: Notes on approaching architecture in Kinshasa 06-Aug-2018
Carolyn Steedman Social History comes to Warwick 09-Aug-2018
Lewis Manthata The politics of social exclusion : Transformation in Cricket South Africa 13-Aug-2018
Ian Shapiro Democratic Competition: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 15-Aug-2018
Isabel Hofmeyr Literary Ecologies of the Indian Ocean World: Mauritian and Southern African Intersections 16-Aug-2018
Danny Bradlow Money Talks: International Law and the Governance of International Finance 20-Aug-2018
Caio Simões de Araújo “One of the most dangerous documents ever produced”: the United Nations, the Global South and the politics of race in th 27-Aug-2018
Dilip Menon At the End of Time: Thinking with Water 30-Aug-2018
Euclides Goncalves Arquivo Morto: notes on institutional memory in postcolonial Mozambique 10-Sep-2018
Wendy Kline Psychedelic Birth: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Perception of Pain in the 1970s 17-Sep-2018
Thato Masiangoako Rationalizing injustice: surprising reinforcement of legal hegemony in South Africa 01-Oct-2018
Rodrigo Naranjo The Dynamic of Captivity and the American Imagination 04-Oct-2018
Alf Gunvald Political Modernity in the Postcolony: Some Reflections of India's Bhil Heartland 08-Oct-2018
Melanie Boehi A South African social garden: People, plants and multispecies histories in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden 15-Oct-2018
Richard Pithouse Forging New Political Identities in the Shanty Towns of Durban, South Africa 22-Oct-2018
T. Dunbar Moodie Confessing remorse about the evils of Apartheid: the Dutch Reformed Church in the Nineteen-Eighties 29-Oct-2018