Report on our launch of 'Land Divided, Land Restored'

BooksLIVE reports on our recent launch of Launch Land Divided, Land Restored edited by Cherryl Walker and Ben Cousins.

Christa Kuljian on the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg

Christa Kuljian writes about recent changes at the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg for City Press.

History of Sexuality Reading Group, 26 March, 3pm

The next meeting of the history of sexuality reading group will be on Thursday, 26 March at 3pm in the WiSER seminar room (6th floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus). We'll be focussing on the work of David Halperin, specifically:

David Halperin, ‘Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality,’ Representations, no. 63 (Summer 1998), pp. 93-120.

David Halperin, ‘How to do the History of Male Sexuality,’ GLQ, vol. 6, no. 1 (2000), pp. 87-124.

South African Edition of Achille Mbembe's 'On the Postcolony'

A South African edition of On the Postcolony will be published in May by Wits University Press, with a foreword by Isabel Hofmeyr and a note by the author.

Launch of Charles van Onselen's Showdown at the Red Lion

Join Jonathan Ball Publishers and Love Books
at the launch of

Showdown at the Red Lion

by the winner of the prestigious Alan Paton award, the Herskovits prize and voted as author of one of the 100 best books to emerge from Africa during the 20th century,

CHARLES VAN ONSELEN

Launch of Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg after Apartheid

To all urbanists, thinkers about cities and those interested in Johannesburg and its development

You are invited by Prof Adam Habib,
Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of the Witwatersrand,
and Wits University Press & UKZN Press to the launch of two books

Jonny Steinberg on returning to Johannesburg

Our new colleague Jonny Steinberg writes for BuzzFeed Books on his decision to return to Johannesburg.

The Mail and Guardian reports on our first WISH seminar of 2015

The Mail and Guardian reports on Allen and Bobby Isaacman's seminar on the Cahora Bassa dam and South Africa's security interests.

The Extraordinary Life of Neo Muyanga

A profile of Neo Muyanga, WiSER's composer-in-residence, in the Mail and Guardian.

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