Public Events

A Glass Brimming Over: The Failed Rural White Rebellion of 1914 in Rustenburg and Marico John Hig

Screening of a documentary, Cemetery State directed by Filip de Boeck, Institute for Anthropologi

Book Launch and Conversation Elleke Boehmer’s Sharmilla, and other Portraits David Medalie’s The

The Life and Death of Dr.

Local Economies Consumption, Enterprise, Insurance, Indebtedness and Gambling in Perpsective chro

Fernando Pessoa, Poet of Two Languages and Many Masks Dr.

Poetry in Motion: 100 Years of Zanzibar's Nadi Ikhwan Safa Kelly Askew (Center for African Studie

By Sarah Maddison

In nations with a record of historical injustice, guilt about the past is deeply implicated in both efforts towards reconciliation and the construction of national identity. This is as true in notionally postcolonial nations, where past injustice is often denied or avoided, as it is in situations where conflict and injustice have been more recent, overt or visible to the rest of the world. Taking the Australian case as an example, this article considers the dimensions of historical, collective guilt, and explores the implications of that guilt for contemporary national identity in postcolonial nations. It argues that until a nation is able to deal with social psychological barriers to addressing historical injustice, it is likely to construct and maintain a narrow and defensive form of nationalism.

Wits University Press and WISER Invite you to the launch of

The Embassy of Mexico in South Africa,   WISER and the School of Literature and Language Studies

The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) and WISER invite you to a seminar by David Johnson

After a thousand years of world ascendency, the Euro-American archive might finally be running dr

The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism invites you to a series of public lectures and

Presented by Juan Cole, an outstanding scholarly critic of the contemporary Middle East and Ameri

A talk by anthropologist Crystal Biruk, from Oberlin College.

The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) presents

This lecture will look at the role of slavery in the cities of early modern European empires.

A new series:  WiSER and Wits Press Book Talks