WISER Seminar Papers
WISER is very pleased to host the Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities. The presentations for the remainder of the current academic semester are listed below.
WISER, and its predecessor institutions the Institute for Advanced Study and the African Studies Institute, have hosted similar seminars that date back to the late 1960s. The archive of those events, and the past papers of the current semester, is available here. A printable version of the seminar schedule for the current year is available here.
The WISH seminar will continue to be held on-line for the foreseeable future; for the details of the Zoom meetings, please sign up for email notices at https://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail.
Participants must read the paper prior to the seminar.
The paper will typically only be available on the Friday preceding the seminar.
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Wednesday, 26 March, 2025 - 16:00 |
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Trust as a decision under ambiguity: Does race matter? |
Wednesday, 9 April, 2025 - 12:30 |
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LUNCH TIME SEMINAR | Purchasing power as a promise : Anthropological views on « purchasing power » |
Wednesday, 16 April, 2025 - 16:00 |
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Maitland and the unification of the theory of trust |
Wednesday, 23 April, 2025 - 16:00 |
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The DPI Approach: Infrastructuring Indian vision of Development |
Wednesday, 30 April, 2025 - 16:00 |
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Problematizing Privacy and Surveillance from the Streets of Delhi |
Wednesday, 7 May, 2025 - 16:00 |
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Paper Kinship: Constructing Individual Identity in Cold War Pakistan |
Wednesday, 21 May, 2025 - 16:00 |
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Digital identification in Jamaica |