Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research

Dangerous Girls

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 24 October, 2014 - 22:34

A blog post by Sarah Emily Duff for the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth, based on her recent article for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

Internal Appointment of Wits University research secondments

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 22 October, 2014 - 12:22

“Capture the children”: Writing Children into the South African War, 1899-1902

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 16 October, 2014 - 16:51

Duff, S. E.. "“Capture the children”: Writing Children into the South African War, 1899-1902." The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 7 (2014): 355-376.

Podcast of Living Together/Living Apart: A Collaboration between Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 10 October, 2014 - 11:28

A podcast of Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel's recent seminar Living Together/Living Apart: The Complexity of Home'.

Jonny Steinberg joins WiSER as part of Wits's Distinguished Scholars Programme

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 9 October, 2014 - 09:50

Jonny Steinberg will join WiSER in 2015 as part of Wits's Distinguished Scholars Programme.

The Politics of Food and Nutrition

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 October, 2014 - 15:06

Sarah Emily Duff talks to Redi Tlhabi about changing food cultures, and discusses nutrition experiments for Africa is a Country.

'Profits and Miracles'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 October, 2014 - 15:03

An article by Sarah Emily Duff for the New Humanist on Johannesburg.

Catherine Burns - 'Patience in the waiting room -- the doctor will see you just now'

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 8 October, 2014 - 12:25

Catherine Burns's plenary from a recent conference on the medical humanities at the University of Cape Town.

The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 3 October, 2014 - 22:54

Duff, S. E.. "The Jam and Matchsticks Problem: Working-Class Girlhood in Late Nineteenth-Century Cape Town." In Colonial Girlhood in Literature, Culture and History, 1840-1950, 124-140. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

No Longer at Ease: Debating Race and Identity Politics in South Africa

Submitted by Sarah Emily Duff on 2 October, 2014 - 09:58

Prof Sarah Nuttall took part in a recent debate, 'No Longer at Ease: Debating Race and Identity Politics in South Africa,' at the University of Cape Town.