Supported by Professors Catherine Albertyn and David Hornsby, WiSER's Professor Hlonipha Mokoena led the delegation from the Wits Panel on Funding Model(s) for Higher Education in South Africa in making a submission to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Higher Education Funding. For more, see here.

Keith Breckenridge offers some reflections on Bruce Murray's recent Journal of African History article on Nelson Mandela's time at the University of the Witwatersrand, drawing out parallels between Mandela's experiences of the institution and those of c

WiSER Spring Program

in Critical Thought

The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new initiative, The WiSER Spring Program in Critical Thought.

WiSER PhD student Christi Kruger will present a paper at the first seminar for this term organised by the Wits City Institute, Friday, 22 July, 13:00-14:00, Wits Anthropology Museum.

(Dis)empowered whiteness: un-whitely spaces and the production of the good white home

Christi Kruger

Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe are both keynote speakers at the Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, hosted this year by Stellenbosch University, 11-15 July.

Sarah Nuttall speaks on 13 July at 11:00. Achille Mbembe speaks on 15 July at 14:15.

For the programme, see here.

Achille Mbembe will be discuss 'the new face of Africa' with Victor Kgomoeswana, Kevin Bloom, Richard Poplak, and Ruda Landman, at the Free State Literary Festival.

Sarah Emily Duff has contributed an essay to Issue 18 of Powision, the theme of which is 'difference'. Her piece is titled 'Children, Childhood, and the Making of Racial Difference in South Africa.'

STEVE BIKO LECTURES IN PHILOSOPHY

Still Hoping for a Revolution

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)

Hlonipha Mokoena will be in conversation with Lindie Koorts, Mark Gevisser, and Jill Weintroub on biography and the writing of South African history at this year's Free State Arts Festival in Bloemfontein.