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
13 Aug 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Ran
  • Greenstein
Israel/Palestine and the apartheid analogy: theoretical and methodological considerations
6 Aug 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Catherine
  • Burns
Writing the history of sex in South Africa
30 Jul 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Liz
  • Gunner
K.E.Masinga, Zulu Radio and the Politics of Migrant Aurality
26 Jul 2012 - 2:00pm
  • Luise
  • White
The Lost History of the Rhonasians: Rhodesian Independence and the Place of Race in Decolonization
23 Jul 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Lynn
  • Thomas
Imported Cosmetics and Colonial Crucibles: Pre-histories to the Twentieth-century Use of Commercial Skin Lighteners
23 Jul 2012 - 10:30am
  • Derek
  • Peterson
The Work of Time in Uganda
16 Jul 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Keith
  • Shear
At War with the Pass Laws? Administrative Reform and the Policing of White Supremacy in 1940s South Africa
18 Jun 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Ivor
  • Barbara
  • Chipkin
  • Lipietz
Transforming South Africa’s Racial Bureaucracy: New Public Management and public sector reform in contemporary South Africa
11 Jun 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Peter
  • Limb
African Associational Life and Journalism in Central Johannesburg of the 1910s
4 Jun 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Vashna
  • Jagarnath
The Diary as 'The Mirror of the self.' The daily discipline of diary writing in shaping Gandhi's private ruminations and his public discourse
28 May 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Richard
  • Pithouse
Thought Amidst Waste
21 May 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Alan
  • Mabin
think metropole: memory, citizenship and futures in Paris, São Paolo and Johannesburg
14 May 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Lucy
  • Allais
Kant on giving to beggars
7 May 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Dunbar
  • Moodie
“Cyril’s eyes lit up.” Roelf Meyer, Francois Venter, the Afrikaner Broederbond and the decision to abandon "group rights" in favour of a "regstaat" (constitutional state)
23 Apr 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Dilip
  • Menon
Doing the Intellectual History of Colonial India
16 Apr 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Julia
  • Hornberger
From Drug Safety to Drug Security
26 Mar 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Rory
  • Carolyn
  • Litheko
  • Bester
  • Hamilton
  • Modisane
Circulation, Visual Forms and the Public Life of Ideas
19 Mar 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Loren
  • Landau
Hospitality without hosts: Mobility and communities of convenience in Africa's Urban estuaries
12 Mar 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Isabel
  • Hofmeyr
The Folds of Empire: Gandhi and Print culture in the Indian Ocean world
5 Mar 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Prinisha
  • Badassy
'This sinister business in babies' - The perils of baby-farming scandals and Infant Life Protection Legislation, 1890-1930
27 Feb 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Jon
  • Hyslop
'Ghostlike' Seafarers and Sailing Ship Nostalgia: The Steamship Lascar in the British Imagination c.1880-1960
20 Feb 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Ute
  • Holl
Media, Ethnology and Cybernetics
13 Feb 2012 - 3:00pm
  • Roger
  • Southall
South Africa's Fractured Power Elite
28 Nov 2011 - 3:00pm
  • Eileen
  • Julien
The dead and the territory: a complex relationship
23 Aug 2011 - 3:00pm
  • Mustafa
  • Barghouti
Defeating occupation: The role of Palestine civil society and the internationalsolidarity movement
18 Aug 2011 - 6:00pm
  • Eva
  • Hoffman
Lost and Found in Transition: Contested memories and moving on from difficult pasts
29 Jun 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Stephane
  • Robolin
Keorapetse Kgositsile's Imaginative Geographies
14 Apr 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Paul
  • Gready
Aftermaths: South Africa after Transitional Justice
29 Mar 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Kerry
  • Bystrom
Reading the South Atlantic: Chile, the Cold War, and the Smell of Apples
16 Mar 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Stephen
  • Donovan
Tarzan in Jakarta: Barack Obama and the Comic Book
15 Mar 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Ilana
  • Feldman
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Effects, Political Claims and Palestinian RefugeeCommunity
14 Mar 2011 - 3:15pm
  • Dunbar
  • Moodie
Confessing Remorse about the Evils of Apartheid: the Dutch Reformed Church in the Nineteen-Eighties
4 Nov 2010 - 3:15pm
  • Jeremy
  • Prestholdt
Locating the Indian Ocean: Thoughts on the Historical Reconstitution of Space
25 Aug 2010 - 3:15pm
  • Bram
  • Buscher
Prosuming Conservation: Producing/Consuming Nature and the Material Base of Speculative Capitalism
19 Feb 2010 - 3:15pm
  • Dereje
  • Wordofa
Conflict transformation through dialogue in Africa
9 Feb 2010 - 3:15pm
  • Ida
  • Susser
AIDS, Sex and Culture: memory and power in contemporary South Africa
29 Sep 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Louise
  • Bethlehem
The Contagion of Witness: between Postcolonialism and Holocaust Memory
11 Aug 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Bibi
  • Bakare_Yusuf
Nudity and Morality: Legislating Women's Bodies and Dress in Nigeria
21 Jul 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Catherine
  • Cole
Mediating Testimony: Broadcasting South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
20 Jul 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Susann
  • Baller
The Politics of Football: Neighbourhood clubs, youth politics and urban control in Senegal
17 Jul 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Tiffany
  • Willoughby_Herard
When the "Deserving Poor" were White and the Blacks were "Cheap African Labor": Racializing Poverty and Manufacturing Vulnerable White People
3 Jun 2009 - 6:30pm
  • Ania
  • Loomba
Cosmopolitan Legacies
1 Jun 2009 - 6:30pm
  • Suvir
  • Kaul
Three literary mediations on Hindu-Muslim violence in postcolonial India
18 May 2009 - 6:30pm
  • Sunil
  • Amrith
Indians Overseas? Governing Tamil Migration to Malaya, 1870-1941
17 Apr 2009 - 3:15pm
  • Hilary
  • Sapire
"A Sign Prophetic?": Black Loyalism and the 1947 Royal Tour of South Africa
2 Mar 2009 - 7:00pm
  • Mattijs
  • van de Port
"Poor Men's White: Turning the Popular into Cultural Heritage in Salvador, Bahia
31 Jul 2008 - 3:15pm
  • Bernard
  • Magnier
Francophone African literature and the critical appraisal of South African literature in France
23 Jul 2008 - 3:00pm
  • Daniel
  • Magaziner
Keeping the Faith with the Black Messiah: Suffering, Hope and the Cost of the Future
14 Jul 2008 - 3:00pm
  • Jeff
  • Opland
Where can you find Xhosa Lierature?
4 Jun 2008 - 3:00pm
  • Padraic
  • Kenney
The Moment of 1989: Democratic Revolution in a global perspective

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