Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

Facts about Ourselves: Negotiating Sexual Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 November, 2015 - 17:35

Duff, S. E.. "Facts about Ourselves: Negotiating Sexual Knowledge in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." Kronos 41 (2015): 199-219.

Interview with Achille Mbembe

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 November, 2015 - 17:27

Swiss Radio reports on the recent African Futures Festival in Johannesburg, and interviews Achille Mbembe.

Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 1 November, 2015 - 10:04

Breckenridge, Keith. "Conspicuous disease: The surveillance of silicosis in South Africa, 1910-1970." American Journal of Industrial Medicine 58 (2015): 15-22.

Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation, and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 12 October, 2015 - 19:56

Duff, S. E.. "Babies of the Empire: Science, Nation, and Truby King's Mothercraft in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa." In Children, Childhood and Youth in the British World, 59-73. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Geschwister Scholl Award for 'Critique de la raison nègre'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 12 October, 2015 - 12:48

WiSER is proud to announce that the German edition of Achille Mbembe’s latest book Critique de la raison nègre has been awarded the highly regarded 2015 Geschwister Scholl-Preis.

Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 12 October, 2015 - 12:08

Breckenridge, Keith. "Hopeless Entanglement: The Short History of the Academic Humanities in South Africa." American Historical Review 120, no. 4 (2015): 1253-1266.

Thomas Piketty Speaks at Wits

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 5 October, 2015 - 10:49

A report on Thomas Piketty's recent talk at Wits, co-organised by WiSER.

Report on 'The New Middle Class in the Global South'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 2 October, 2015 - 09:10

Deborah James reflects on our recent workshop on the new middle class in the global south.

Podcast of Public Lectures from 2015's JWTC

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 29 September, 2015 - 16:34

Public lectures from the 2015 Session of the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, held at WiSER and the Adler Museum, Wits University, Johannesburg.

Free Download of 'WIDE ANGLE: Photography as Participatory Practice'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 25 September, 2015 - 11:53

'WIDE ANGLE: Photography as Participatory Practice', co-edited by WiSER artist-in-residence Terry Kurgan, and published by Fourthwall Books, is now available as a free download.