Public Events

WORDS Festival | Sunday, 28th May

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 25 May, 2023 - 14:49

Sunday, 28 May, 2023 - 14:00

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Book discussion | Winnie & Nelson - Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg | 23 May | 6pm | In-Person

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 5 May, 2023 - 15:17

Tuesday, 23 May, 2023 - 18:00

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Invitation | Building trust after the African polycrisis | People, Energy, Climate and Finance

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 9 March, 2023 - 10:58

Wednesday, 15 March, 2023 - 16:00

Can African Finance build pathways out of the African Polycrisis : Join Adam Tooze, Patrick Mweheire and Sim Tshabalala in discussion with Hlonipha Mokoena

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Sarah Nuttall Finishes her Second Term as WiSER Director

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 3 November, 2022 - 10:32

Sunday, 1 January, 2023 - 00:00

At the end of 2022, Professor Sarah Nuttall’s second and final term as Director of WiSER co

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INVITE | Siseko Kumalo, Edwin Cameron and Gerrit Olivier on Koos Prinsloo | 2 Nov | 5pm

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 28 October, 2022 - 16:32

Wednesday, 2 November, 2022 - 17:00

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Towards a Fully Digital Home Affairs: (e-)Citizenship, Capacity Development and Efficient Service Delivery in the 4IR

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 6 November, 2022 - 11:29

Thursday, 6 October, 2022 - 10:00

Keynote speaker: The Honourable Njabulo Nzuza, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs

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INVITE | Lecture by Eyal Weizman on “Cloud Studies: Atmospheric Violence”

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 22 September, 2022 - 10:03

Wednesday, 28 September, 2022 - 18:00

WiSER invites you to an online lecture in our PUBLIC POSITIONS SERIES by <

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The politics of cooperative movements in three continents: Mesopotomia Coop in Rojava, Mondragon in Basque Country and ASCOOP in Colombia

Thursday, 18 August, 2022 - 12:00

Presented by:

Asli

Telli

What kind of transformation does achieving communal peace and social justice account for?

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Two Oceanic Events

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 3 August, 2022 - 17:05

Thursday, 4 August, 2022 - 17:00

Due to the illness of a participant, we have decided to postpone Part 1 of the Oceanic Ev

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Marigold Oceanic Bead Event | 4th Aug at 5pm

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 4 August, 2022 - 09:57

Thursday, 4 August, 2022 - 17:00

WiSER, Oceanic Humanities and Marigold Beads invite you to a

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Two Oceanic events at WiSER | 4 Aug | 3pm to 7pm

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 28 July, 2022 - 13:04

Thursday, 4 August, 2022 - 15:00

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Invite - Seminar by Achille Mbembe on Notes on Planetary Habitability | 3 Aug | 5pm | Senate Room

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 26 July, 2022 - 11:14

Wednesday, 3 August, 2022 - 17:00

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A History of Black Lawyers in South Africa

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 27 July, 2022 - 14:35

Wednesday, 3 August, 2022 - 09:00

WiSER, 6^th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus

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Invite - Wits University Press turns 100 | 2 August | 6pm

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 25 July, 2022 - 18:14

Tuesday, 2 August, 2022 - 18:00

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Rethinking Social Justice: Ecological Justice and Ordinary Violence Today

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 25 July, 2022 - 18:18

Thursday, 28 July, 2022 - 13:00

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Programme in African Digital Humanities : Beyond Year Three

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 20 July, 2022 - 11:43

Thursday, 28 July, 2022 - 13:00

WISER's Programme in African Digital Humanities invites you to join us for a series of on-li

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Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 18 August, 2022 - 14:47

Monday, 18 July, 2022 - 17:00

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Critical Thought, Human Rights and Freedom in the Middle East in 2020s

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 7 March, 2022 - 11:33

Thursday, 9 June, 2022 - 12:00

New Date: Thursday, 9 June 2022, Lunchtime (12 pm CET / SA tim

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INVITE | "Making Homes in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice" by Prof. Hilde Heynen | 7 June | 6pm

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 3 June, 2022 - 08:36

Tuesday, 7 June, 2022 - 18:00

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The WiSER Podcast | Season Five

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 6 June, 2022 - 12:34

Monday, 6 June, 2022 - 17:00

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Public Positions – Abou Farman on ‘Future Inevitable’ | 1 June | 4pm SA time

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 31 May, 2022 - 14:43

Wednesday, 1 June, 2022 - 16:00

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After Decolonization? First Events

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 20 April, 2022 - 12:17

Thursday, 12 May, 2022 - 13:00

WiSER will be convening a se

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WISER Lunchtime Discussion : South Africa/Ukraine-Thinking migration crises across both contexts | 5 April | 1-2pm

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 29 March, 2022 - 14:32

Tuesday, 5 April, 2022 - 13:00

South

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Digital Research with Zotero

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 6 February, 2022 - 17:39

Tuesday, 8 March, 2022 - 13:00

Zotero Logo

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The WiSER Podcast | Season Five

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 11 February, 2022 - 11:26

Friday, 11 February, 2022 - 09:30

In Episode One of Season Five&nb

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THe Art of Waiting Tales

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 16 December, 2021 - 08:56

Thursday, 16 December, 2021 - 10:00

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ARUA CoE Identities Workshop for Early Career Scholars Programme : (Un)Official Identification for Health

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 19 November, 2021 - 08:28

Friday, 19 November, 2021 - 10:30

Keith Breckenridge and

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The WISER Podcast | Season 4 | The Collection

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 12 November, 2021 - 11:07

Friday, 12 November, 2021 - 11:30

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Second Annual African Digital Humanities Symposium

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 10 November, 2021 - 06:50

Tuesday, 9 November, 2021 - 10:00

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The Art of Meleko Mokgosi | Part 2

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 4 November, 2021 - 14:21

Thursday, 4 November, 2021 - 14:30

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The Art of Meleko Mokgosi | Part 1

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 28 October, 2021 - 13:56

Thursday, 28 October, 2021 - 14:00

Today we release the first of a two-part podcast series which focuses on the work of Botswanan artis

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER Twenty | Part 3 | Inside WISER

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 14 October, 2021 - 13:12

Thursday, 14 October, 2021 - 13:00

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | The End of Mugabe

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 30 September, 2021 - 14:40

Thursday, 30 September, 2021 - 15:00

In this latest episode of The WiSER Podcast, Dr Tinashe Mushakavanhu discusses the coup of November

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | WISER’s 20th anniversary | Part

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 16 September, 2021 - 14:43

Thursday, 16 September, 2021 - 14:30

Today we release the first of several podcasts marking WiSER’s 20th anniversary.

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | Feminism-Generation-Activism

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 8 September, 2021 - 09:41

Wednesday, 8 September, 2021 - 10:30

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The WISER Podcast | Season 04 | Part 1&2

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 2 September, 2021 - 15:22

Thursday, 2 September, 2021 - 15:30

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The Forge, WISER and C150GAP Panel : What is at stake in the destruction of a city?

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 4 August, 2021 - 15:18

Thursday, 12 August, 2021 - 18:00

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WIPES | Public Panel Discussion of Yuen Yuen Ang's China's Gilded Age : the Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption | Friday, July 16, 4:00PM

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 10 June, 2021 - 12:14

Friday, 16 July, 2021 - 16:00

On Friday, July 16, at 4pm, WISER and SWOP will host a public, no-attribution panel discussion w

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The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | | ON WATER : International Contemporary Writing

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 25 June, 2021 - 14:29

Friday, 25 June, 2021 - 16:30

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Language Webinar

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 14 June, 2021 - 09:45

Thursday, 10 June, 2021 - 18:00

Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) would like to invite you to our Langu

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Seminar with Sakiru Adebayo: Ethics and Transnationality of Memory

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 7 June, 2021 - 11:21

Tuesday, 8 June, 2021 - 17:00

On June 8, Sakiru Adebayo will talk about <

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The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | China Africa Futures | thinking beyond conspiracy

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 8 June, 2021 - 13:22

Tuesday, 8 June, 2021 - 13:30

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Invite | HINTERLANDS - A Project in the Rural, Literary and Environmental Humanities | 3 June

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 26 May, 2021 - 11:16

Thursday, 3 June, 2021 - 13:00

You are warmly invited to attend an online public session of the workshop

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The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | REGIONS 2050 | Mobility, Extraction, Circulation - Part 2

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 27 May, 2021 - 16:26

Thursday, 27 May, 2021 - 16:30

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The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | REGIONS 2050 | Mobility, Extraction, Circulation - Part 1

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 13 May, 2021 - 14:22

Thursday, 13 May, 2021 - 12:30

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The WISER Podcast | Season 3 | Lost Books: Narratives Of Absent Texts

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 6 May, 2021 - 14:14

Thursday, 6 May, 2021 - 15:00

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The WISER Podcast | Travelling Technology | Big infrastructures, small devices | Part 1

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 8 April, 2021 - 16:10

Thursday, 8 April, 2021 - 23:30

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The WISER Podcast | Eight ways to think Unsettlement Part 2

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 31 March, 2021 - 11:50

Wednesday, 31 March, 2021 - 23:30

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The WISER Podcast | Eight ways to think Unsettlement

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 25 March, 2021 - 10:20

Thursday, 25 March, 2021 - 23:30

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They Called You Dambudzo Virtual Launch with Tinashe Mushakavanhu

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 24 February, 2021 - 10:03

Friday, 26 February, 2021 - 17:30

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