Hlonipha Mokoena was interviewed recently by Eusebius McKaiser on Radio 702 and CapeTalk. She discussed the history and meanings of the knobkerrie. The podcast is available here.

Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall will speak at 'The Critical Tasks of the University,' a conference organised by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programmes at the University of Bologna, 22-24 July 2017. For more information and for the programme, see here.

WiSER Research Associate Bongani Madondo has been shortlisted for the UJ Prize for South African Writing for his recent book Sigh, the Beloved Country.

An audio recording of WiSER's launch of the new, South African edition and English translation of Achille Mbembe's Critique of Black Reason: https://archive.org/details/MbembeLaunchCritiqueOfBlackReason6June2017

Writer-in-residence at WiSER, Bongani Madondo, has recently published an essay in the New Yorker. He writes about South African photographer Sabelo Mlangeni.

The Sunday Times interviews Christa Kuljian about her Alan Paton Prize-shortlisted book Darwin's Hunch.

WiSER Director Sarah Nuttall was interviewed recently on TalkRadio 702 about the humanities.

A summary and audio recording of Keith Breckenridge's recent inaugural lecture.

WiSER Winter Programme in Critical Thought

WiSER’s 2017 Winter Programme in Critical Thought will run from July to September this year. As in 2016, we will design and curate a cluster of afternoon symposia, conferences, seminars and public events, many of them in collaboration with other institutes or departments.

Achille Mbembe discusses the implications of the recent French Presidential election for Africa, for Le Point Afrique.