Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

Hlonipha Mokoena at the ACT | UJ Arts & Culture Conference

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 15 March, 2016 - 10:26

Hlonipha Mokoena will speak at the ACT | UJ Arts & Culture Conference on Thursday, 17 March.

Achille Mbembe's Latest Book

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 14 March, 2016 - 10:06

Achille Mbembe's Politiques de l'inimitié will be published by Éditions La Découverte on 31 March. Rights in English, German, Spanish and other languages should be finalized in the coming weeks

Achille Mbembe, 'Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 14 March, 2016 - 10:01

Africa is a Country has published Achille Mbembe's essay 'Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive' as an eBook.

Ecologies of relation: post-slavery, post-apartheid, and rethinking race across the Atlantic in Zakes Mda’s Cion

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 7 March, 2016 - 10:46

Sides, Kirk B.. "Ecologies of relation: post-slavery, post-apartheid, and rethinking race across the Atlantic in Zakes Mda’s Cion." Safundi 17 (2016): 3-19.

“I am happy with one”: Re-evaluating the relationship between gender, breast-cancer surgery, and survival

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 2 March, 2016 - 17:10

van der Wiel, Renée. "“I am happy with one”: Re-evaluating the relationship between gender, breast-cancer surgery, and survival." Agenda 27 (2013): 55-64.

Simonne Horwitz to Speak at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 2 March, 2016 - 10:12

The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa invites you to

“Apartheid in a Parka”? Roots and longevity of the Canada-South Africa comparison in transnational perspectives

Dr Simonne Horwitz Visiting Researcher: CISA, Associate Professor, History University of Saskatchewan

The missing links: A South African perspective on the theories of health in drama therapy

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 1 March, 2016 - 13:38

Makanya, Sinethemba. "The missing links: A South African perspective on the theories of health in drama therapy." The Arts in Psychotherapy 41 (2014): 302-306.

Shireen Hassim to Speak at the Next Steve Biko Lecture, University of Johannesburg

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 1 March, 2016 - 11:27

Politics and Passions: the Stakes of Democracy

Chantal Mouffe

University of Westminster

Tuesday 8^th of March 2016

Respondents:

Shireen Hassim, University of the Witwatersrand

Peter Hudson, University of the Witwatersrand

Venue: Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg

Time: 13:00PM-16:00PM

Achille Mbembe's New Book

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 29 February, 2016 - 10:59

Éditions La Découverte has made available the cover of Achille Mbembe's new book Politiques de l'inimitié, which will be published on 31 March 2016. Translations will follow soon.

Sarah Emily Duff Interviewed by Political Foods

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 29 February, 2016 - 10:52

Sarah Emily Duff was interviewed recently by Political Foods, a new podcast interested in the intersections of power, cooking, and eating. She discussed the popular South African confection the Hertzoggie, focussing on its complex and contested history.