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
7 Nov 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Lumkile
  • Mondi
From proprietorship, public companies to pyramid ownership and control: The evolution of the Financialisation of the South African Economy
31 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Victoria
  • Collis-Buthelezi
Other Universals: India, Africa, the Caribbean and Un-national Thought of the Southern Hemisphere
24 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Emery
  • Kalema
The Mulele rebellion (D.R. Congo) and the politics of forgetting
17 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Christi
  • Kruger
White on the margin: post-apartheid white poverty and the politics of homogeneity
10 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Sarah Emily
  • Duff
‘From Young Adults to Teenagers: Sex Education Manuals and the Making of Modern Youth in Apartheid South Africa’
3 Oct 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Jamie
  • Miller
An African Volk: The Apartheid Regime and its Search for Survival
26 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Peter
  • Geschiere
Homosexuality, Witchcraft, Freemasonry - Postcolonial Obsessions in Cameroon and elsewhere
19 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Nancy
  • Rose Hunt
A Nervous State
12 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Shaun
  • Franklin
"Worse than Apartheid?" Measuring educational progress since democracy
5 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Khumisho
  • Moguerane
Everyday identities, formal schooling and the practice of nationalism in Bechuanaland in the early twentieth century
5 Sep 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
Aadhaar and the superindex : India's UID and the politics of database normalization
29 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Carolyn
  • Dinshaw
Black Skin, Green Masks: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making.
15 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Linda
  • Gordon
Unemployed activism in the 1930s : long-term structural change, gender and the meanings of independence
8 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Drew
  • Thompson
ID'ing Mozambique's Post-Independence Development and History from 1975 to 1993
4 Aug 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Noah
  • Tamarkin
Becoming Genetic Jews: Lemba Political Histories of Racial, Religious, and Cultural Difference in Twentieth-Century South Africa
25 Jul 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Sam
  • Daly
Sworn on the Gun: Law and Crime in the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970.
6 Jun 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Ruth
  • Sacks
Object Agencies: Congolese artifacts as exhibition organisms
30 May 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Taiwo Adetunji
  • Osinubi
Provincializing Slavery: Abolition, Law, Slave Subjects
23 May 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Simonne
  • Horwitz
Race, gender and the South African ‘blood wars’.
16 May 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Ngaka
  • Mosiane
Livelihoods, the body, and city space.
9 May 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Eric
  • Allina
From 'New Man' to Superman: The politics of work and socialism, from Maputo to Karl-Marx-Stadt, c. 1982
25 Apr 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Ellison
  • Tjirera
City as a Creature of Law – Revisiting Windhoek’s Legal Architecture
18 Apr 2016 - 3:00pm
  • John
  • Stremlau
Valid Voting? Electoral Integrity and the Role of Pan-African Observers in Advancing Peace and Democratic Governance
11 Apr 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Neo
  • Lekgotla laga Ramoupi
A Critique of the Discourse on Africanization of Knowledge In the Universities in Africa: The Whys and How Far in Cameroon and South Africa
4 Apr 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Yasmina
  • Martin
"Now I am not scared": Transnational HIV/AIDS Activism through the lens of Simon Nkoli
24 Mar 2016 - 3:00pm
  • David
  • Cohen
Small matter of truth
14 Mar 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Julie
  • Parle
‘A drug, like a scalpel, in an unskilled hand is a dangerous weapon…’ : South African struggles over pharmaceutical regulatory authority, 1930s to 1960s
7 Mar 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Claudia
  • Gastrow
Musseque Nation: Uncivil Citizens and Urban Space in Luanda, Angola
29 Feb 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Joshua
  • Walker
Face Values: Trust and Suspicion in Democratic Republic of Congo
22 Feb 2016 - 3:00pm
  • Samantha
  • Vice
Aesthetic Injustice
1 Jun 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Emery
  • Kalema
The Mulele rebellion (D.R. Congo) and the production of suffering
25 May 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Belinda
  • Bozzoli
The Weberian state, civility and explanations of rape
18 May 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Dilip
  • Menon
The Great Flood and Modern Times: colonial history and abbreviated time
11 May 2015 - 3:00pm
  • David
  • Dickinson
Protecting Unprotected Strikes: Casual Workers and New Technologies of Struggle in the South African Post Office
4 May 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Thembisa
  • Waetjen
Poppies and Gold: 'Transit' Labour and Narcopolitics on the Witwatersrand, 1904-1910
20 Apr 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Kirk
  • Sides
Ecologies of Relation: Post-Slavery, Post-Apartheid and Rethinking Race Across the Atlantic
13 Apr 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Antina
  • von Schnitzler
Late Apartheid Techno-Politics and Temporalities of Transition
30 Mar 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Liz
  • Thornberry
Sexual Consent and Political Legitimacy in the 19th Century Eastern Cape
23 Mar 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Lynn
  • Thomas
Agency in African history
16 Mar 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Amy
  • Niang
A Community out of Empire: the French Union (1946-58) as a postcolonial experiment in multinational polity
9 Mar 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Danai
  • Mupotsa
Proper Sex: Making Tea, Pure Romance and the Lazy Man
2 Mar 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
To Think Better than the State will Allow : the short history of the South African Humanities
23 Feb 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Rosa
  • Williams
Morbid Circulations: Labour Migration, Alcohol and the Colonial Politics of Life in Early 20C Mozambique
16 Feb 2015 - 3:00pm
  • Allen
  • Isaacman
Cahora Bassa : Extending South Africa's Tentacles of Empire 1965-2010
23 Jun 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Jonathan
  • Klaaren
Regulating the South African Judiciary: 2012-2013
9 Jun 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Dilip
  • Menon
Degeneration and satyagraha: Hind Swaraj and the crisis of liberal democracy
2 Jun 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Catherine
  • Burns
Race, Sex, Birth and Blood in South African History : “Rhesus sensitization in the Bantu” in South Africa, 1940 to 1970
26 May 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Aurelia
  • Segatti
“Mobutu’s Ghost”: Mobilising against foreign retailers in Kinshasa (DRC). Indigenization, autochthony and emerging urban subjectivities
19 May 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Paige
  • Sweet
Unquoting the Past: Authorship and Appropriation in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness
12 May 2014 - 3:00pm
  • Ruth
  • Sacks
Looking for the Congo in Congo Style: Dreamscapes in Belgian Art Nouveau and the nightmare of the African colony

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