16 August 2017 

A workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa 

Darwin's Hunch: Science, Race, and the Search for Human Origins (Jacana, 2016) by WiSER associate Christa Kuljian has been long listed for the prestigious 2017 Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award. For the full list see here.

Achille Mbembe will present a keynote address at the Butler Conference organised by the Research Institute for the Humanities CLUE+ at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on 5-7 April 2017.

For more information, about the conference, see here. The programme is available here.

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe will present keynote addresses at the 2017 Spring School held on 5-8 April at the University of Tübingen's Weltethos Institute. The theme of this year's School is 'Participatory Cultures and New Ethical Paradigms in the Global South.'

The programme is available here.

Achille Mbembe will participate in and deliver the keynote lecture at the conference 'African Migration in Comparative Perspective' Duke University. See here for the conference programme.

An interview with Achille Mbembe in Der Spiegel (in German and subscribers-only).

Achille Mbembe argues that Africa needs a humane migration policies, for the Mail and Guardian.

WiSER is extremely proud to announce that:

Professor Keith Breckenridge, Deputy Director of WiSER, has won the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)’s inaugural  Humanities Book Award.