WISER Seminar Papers

WISER, and its predecessors the Institute for Advanced Study and the African Studies Institute, have hosted an inter-disciplinary seminar in southern African research for almost half a century. Listed here are the papers for which we have information. Much of the data comes from the Wits Wiredspace project, and the papers are stored on their servers. This list is ordered chronologically, extending back to the middle of the 1960s.

Date
28 Oct 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Richard
  • Banégas
  • & Armando_
  • Cutolo
ID Wars in Côte d'Ivoire
21 Oct 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Michelle
  • Spektor
Biometric Statecraft, Policing, and Fingerprint Technology in Palestine/Israel, 1920-1948
30 Sep 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Kevin
  • Donovan
The Moneychanger state
16 Sep 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Deborah
  • James
Collaborations to curb involuntary indebtedness among welfare grant recipients
9 Sep 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Wendy
  • Willems
Racialised Publics: Coloniality, Technology and Imaginaries
26 Aug 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Richard
  • Steyn
Rhodes And His Banker: Empire, Wealth And The Coming Of Union
19 Aug 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
The meaning of the 2024 elections : biometric governance and the trust problem
12 Aug 2024 - 4:00pm
  • John Keith
  • Hart
Trust: A question of belief
5 Aug 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Tunde
  • Okunoye
Carrot or Stick? Linking Nigeria’s National Identity Number (NIN) coerced enrolment with Questions of a shared Nigerian Identity
29 Jul 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Ngala Chome
  • & Justin Willis
Debt, credit and obligation in Kenya’s 2022 elections
1 Jul 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Matthew
  • Gandy
Atmospheres: Contestations and Configurations
24 Jun 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Gala
  • Rexer
Methodologies for Living with Toxicity: Polluting Infrastructures and Environmental, Reproductive and Racial Injustice in North London
20 May 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Awadhendra
  • Sharan
(Re)Configuring Atmospheres: Design, Technology and the Quest for ‘Pure Air’ in Colonial India
13 May 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Peter
  • Geschiere
Witchcraft logics and the biometric citizen
6 May 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Euclides
  • Goncalves
"Revisiting the Dead Archive through Air and Atmospheres" (tbc)
22 Apr 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Ruth
  • Sacks
Queen India’s Air: Saturation, Conditioning and Power
15 Apr 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Georges
  • Eyenga
The Invention of 'Kumba Age’. How did individuals' age become dynamic in Cameroon?
8 Apr 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Helene
  • Strauss
Photosynthetic Justice
25 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Rowan
  • Boyson
Air Makes Free: the 1772 Somerset Case and the Poetics of England’s ‘Pure Air’
18 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Rike
  • Sitas et al
Platform Politics and Silicon Savannahs : The Rise of on-Demand Logistics and Mobility in Nairobi and Kigali
11 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Lucy Sabin &
  • Jorge Olcina Cantos
Weathering Saharan Dust Beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: A Dialogue Between Climatology and Postcolonial Critical Theories
4 Mar 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Ranjit
  • Singh
The curious case of tweeting an Aadhaar number: trust/mistrust in security practices of public data infrastructures
26 Feb 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Uhuru
  • Phalafala
Cosmologies of Breath
19 Feb 2024 - 4:00pm
  • Marine
  • al Dahdah
Mobile (for) Development: When Digital Giants Take Care of Poor Women
23 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Stephan
  • Scheel
The Politics of Seamless Travel: From matters of care and concern to matters of dissent
16 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sonwabile
  • Mnwana
Beyond the ‘definition paradigm’: Rethinking ‘community’ and mining-led conflict in rural South Africa
2 Oct 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sara
  • Byala
A Catalytic Role Untold : Coca-Cola and the Undoing of Apartheid
18 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Simon
  • Hull
An Overview of Frontier Technologies for Land Tenure: How to Avoid the Hype and Focus on What Matters
11 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Tara
  • Weinberg
Bargaining with the state? Black farmers’ petitions for agricultural support, amidst white farmers’ subsidies, 1920s-1970s
4 Sep 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Romesh
  • Silva
A population-based estimation and assessment of persons lacking official proof of legal identity
28 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Polly
  • Pallister-Wilkins
“Open Doors” and “Stranger Natives”: white supremacy, racialisation and governing im/mobilities in African Trusts
21 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sean
  • Redding
"The girl is not consulted" : Abduction marriages and gendered traditions of violence
14 Aug 2023 - 2:00pm
  • Kirk
  • Sides
“Astral Forms: Halley’s Comet and Sol Plaatje’s Reading of the “Long White Tail” of Colonial History.”
7 Aug 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Andries
  • du Toit
The Land and its people : The South African ‘Land Question’ and the Post-Apartheid Political Order
31 Jul 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Jonathan
  • Klaaren
Changing Verifiable Identity Across Africa: A Sociotechnical and Political Economy Mapping of Initiatives for Digital Public Infrastructure
8 Jun 2023 - 10:00am
  • Janet
  • Roitman
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide
5 Jun 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Natasha
  • Erlank
Nets of Social Motion: Black Christianity in South African History
22 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Joel
  • Pearson
Center-led Fiscal Reform and the Rise of Regional Power Blocs in a Limpopo Municipality, 1980-2020
15 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Polly
  • Pallister-Wilkins
“Open Doors” and “Stranger Natives”: white supremacy, racialisation and governing im/mobilities in African Trusts
8 May 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Keren Weitzberg &
  • Radha Upadhyaya
Regulatory efforts to reign in digital credit: Case study of evolving regulation in Kenya
24 Apr 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Clovis
  • Bergere
“We Will Not Follow You Like Sheep”: Literacy, Officialdom, and Generational Politics in the Digital Age
3 Apr 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Christian
  • Lund
An air of legality – legalization under conditions of rightlessness in Indonesia
27 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Enrique
  • Martino
Labour recruiters as Lumpen-brokers
20 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Jeanne
  • Bouyat
Looking below racism. Renegotiating authority at school through challenging the policing of hairstyles, an inside view on a girls-led protest in Soweto.
13 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Cecilia
  • Passanti
  • & Marie-Emmanuelle
  • Pommerolle
The (un) making of electoral transparency through technology: The 2017 Kenyan presidential election controversy
6 Mar 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Ricardo
  • Soares de Oliveira
Researching Africa and the Offshore World
27 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Gustav
  • Kalm
Capitalizing on competing property titles in the Simandou iron ore reserves in Guinea:investor-state arbitration vs host-stranger relations
20 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Sakiru
  • Adebayo
The Memory Flâneur in Teju Cole’s Open City
13 Feb 2023 - 4:00pm
  • Wendy
  • Hunter
Denationalization in the Dominican Republic: Trapping Victims in the State’s Administrative Maze
7 Nov 2022 - 4:00pm
  • Merve
  • Fejzula
Publics, Counterpublics, Black Publics: The Growth of a Negritude Public in the Twentieth Century

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