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
8 Oct 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Alf
  • Gunvald
Political Modernity in the Postcolony: Some Reflections of India's Bhil Heartland
4 Oct 2018 - 12:00pm
  • Rodrigo
  • Naranjo
The Dynamic of Captivity and the American Imagination
1 Oct 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Thato
  • Masiangoako
Rationalizing injustice: surprising reinforcement of legal hegemony in South Africa
17 Sep 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Wendy
  • Kline
Psychedelic Birth: Bodies, Boundaries, and the Perception of Pain in the 1970s
10 Sep 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Euclides
  • Goncalves
Arquivo Morto: notes on institutional memory in postcolonial Mozambique
27 Aug 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Caio Simões
  • de Araújo
“One of the most dangerous documents ever produced”: the United Nations, the Global South and the politics of race in the early decolonization era, ca.1946-1955
20 Aug 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Danny
  • Bradlow
Money Talks: International Law and the Governance of International Finance
13 Aug 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Lewis
  • Manthata
The politics of social exclusion : Transformation in Cricket South Africa
6 Aug 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Ruth
  • Sacks
The City Speaks for Itself: Notes on approaching architecture in Kinshasa
30 Jul 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Carina
  • Truyts
Fishfinger stew and peach tarts: from hunger to nourishment in the Dwars River Valley
23 Jul 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Johan
  • Mathew
On Principals and Agency: Reassembling Trust in Indian Ocean Commerce
16 Jul 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Julia
  • Stephens
Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia
28 May 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Charne
  • & Meg
  • Lavery
  • Samuelson
The Oceanic South
21 May 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Siphiwe Ignatius
  • Dube
A Foray into (Study of?) African Political Theology
14 May 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Rogers
  • Joshua
  • Orock
  • Walker
Suspicious Times?
7 May 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Isabel
  • Hofmeyr
Object-oriented Reading: The View from the Customs House
23 Apr 2018 - 3:00pm
  • David
  • Johnson
Literature against Stalinism: South Africa's left opposition, 1930-1960
16 Apr 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Cindy
  • Morillas
Individualization versus Democratization? Conditions and forms of student activism in authoritarian situation (Cameroon, 1962-2014)
9 Apr 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Renee
  • van der Wiel
Doing research that does something: The trope of the exceptional knowledge-producing medical doctor
19 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Claudia
  • Gastrow
The Discomforts of Home: Infrastructure, Rehousing and Class in Luanda
12 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Sarah
  • Wild
The lifecast cast: an ethico-legal inquiry
5 Mar 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
What happened to the theory of African capitalism?
26 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Antonio
  • Tomas
Urban Nostalgia: Colonial traces in the postcolonial city of Luanda
19 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Saarah
  • Jappie
Baas of the Kramat: Muslim place and belonging in 19th and 20th century Cape Town
12 Feb 2018 - 3:00pm
  • Simamkele
  • Dlakavu
“Say No, Black Woman”: The Giant is Falling and the erasure of Black women in South Africa
23 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Srila
  • Roy
Queer activism as governmentality: regulating lesbian lives in India
16 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Thato
  • Masiangoako
The shaping of legal consciousness through the experience of short-term incarceration
2 Oct 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Darja
  • Djordjevic
Historicizing Public Oncology in Rwanda: From Geographies of Incidence to Onco-Nationhood (1915-2015)
18 Sep 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Faeeza
  • Ballim
Neoliberalism and the techno-politics of Apartheid
4 Sep 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Benson A
  • Mulemi
Popular Theorizing on albinism and the human in Eastern Africa: Exploration of Tanzanian experience.
28 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Jim
  • Campbell
History, Memory, and the Mississippi Freedom Movement
14 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Juan
  • Obarrio
private/public government of communities
7 Aug 2017 - 3:00pm
  • William
  • Mpofu
Decoloniality as Travelling Theory: Or What Decoloniality is not
31 Jul 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
The single source of truth about Kenyans : collateral mysteries, credit information and Safaricom
24 Jul 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Kerry
  • Chance
Sacrifice After Mandela: Debts of Liberation Among South Africa’s First Post-Apartheid Generation
12 Jun 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Grieve
  • Chelwa
Does economics have an ‘Africa Problem’? Some data and preliminary thoughts
5 Jun 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Robyn
  • Bloch
The apartheid historian’s struggle: black betrayal and its effects
29 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Achille
  • Mbembe
Future Knowledges
22 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Cynthia
  • and John
  • Kros
  • Wright
"You can write and remember but we are simply izithunguthu'"
15 May 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Daniel
  • Magaziner
African Architecture, Education and Possibility in the 1960s
8 May 2017 - 5:00pm
  • Lucy
  • Allais
‘Is there Western Philosophy?’ a discussion with Lucy Allais and Eusebius McKaiser
24 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Edgar
  • Taylor
The Tank Hill Party: Generational Politics and Decolonization in East Africa
10 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Gregory
  • Dowd
AMfecaneRICA, 1650-1850: What can Historians of Native America Learn from Southern Africanists?
3 Apr 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Richard
  • Pithouse
Manichean Delirium (In the Time of Jacob Zuma)
27 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Candice
  • Jansen
VULNERABILITIES OF THE IMAGE: Cedric Nunn & Coloured Family in Struggle
20 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Bettina
  • Malcomess
Moving Image as chronotope of the Colonial Imagination
13 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Nompumelelo Zinhle
  • Manzini
African Conceptions of Person as Gendered, Ableist and Anti-queer
6 Mar 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Andreas
  • Kalyvas
Carl Schmitt's Postcolonial Imagination
27 Feb 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Rita
  • Kesselring
Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa. Book discussion and launch
20 Feb 2017 - 3:00pm
  • Marielle
  • Debos
Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation

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