Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe are both participating in the prestigious 2016 Summer School in Global Studies and Critical Theory in Bologna. The theme of this year's meeting is 'Global Humanities and the Global South: History, Politics, and Critical Theory.'

Shireen Hassim and Catherine Burns represented WiSER at the 2016 annual meeting of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes in June in London. The theme of this year's conference was 'Area Studies in a Globalising World: Past, Present, and Future.'

Please see below for videos of our seminar 'Violence, Non-Violence, and the Future of Democracy' hosted on 30 May 2016 by the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Speakers included Wendy Brown, Achille Mbembe, Thando Njovane, Jane Taylor, David Theo Goldberg, and Judith Butler.

Achille Mbembe is on the cover of the 2 June edition of Libération. He is profiled by Cécile Daumas, and interviewed by both Cécile and Sonya Faure.

Hakim Ben Hammouda reviews Politiques de l’inimitié in Le Maghreb.

Achille Mbembe was in conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty at Berlin's Gorki Theatre on 22 May 2016. This was the first in a series of ten conversations bringing together intellectuals from around the world to illuminate and explore contempary global crises. Achille and Dipesh discussed 'Our Order is Your Disorder.'

Cabello/Carcelle rap extracts from the work of Foucault, Sontag, Butler, and Achille Mbembe.

A review of Achille Mbembe's Politiques de l’inimitié in Les inRocKuptibles.

Achille Mbembe in conversation with Alain Mabanckou at the Musée Dapper on 7 May 2016, on the publication of Achille's new book Politiques de l'inimitié (Editions La Découverte).

Patrick Boucheron and Achille Mbembe in conversation, with Emmanuel Laurentin chairing, at the 2016 installment of La Nuit des Idées in Paris.