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

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

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

'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.

Justin Pearce will be launching his new book Political Identity and Conflict in Central Angola,1975-2002 (Cambridge University Press) in the Cape on 29 September 2015.

WiSER Researcher Sarah Emily Duff is a fellow of the Summer Programme in Social Science, an initiative run jointly over three years by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. The first meeting at the IAS was held recently.

A new essay for Africa is a Country by Achille Mbembe.

On 'The Colour of Our Future' - a panel including Xolela Mangcu, Hlonipa Mokoena and Crain Soudien, and chaired by Ashraf Jamal, at the recent Open Book Festival in Cape Town.

[A shorter version of this piece was published in the Sunday Times.]

Achille Mbembe's 'Critique de la raison nègre' has been translated into Dutch.