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
25 Aug 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Sarah
  • Nuttall
City Forms and Writing the 'Now' in South Africa
18 Aug 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Gabrielle
  • Hecht
Rapture Talk in the Nuclear Age: Conjugating Colonial Power in Africa
15 Aug 2003 - 3:15pm
  • Dennis
  • Altman
Queer Centres and Peripheries
14 Aug 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Raymond
  • Suttner
Early history of the African National Congress (ANC) Underground: From the M-Plan to Rivonia
11 Aug 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Paul N.
  • Edwards
Infrastructure and Modernity: Scales of Force, Time and Social Organisation in the History of Sociotechnical Systems
8 Aug 2003 - 3:15pm
  • Shula
  • Marks
The silent scourge? Silicosis, respiratory disease and gold-ming in South Africa
4 Aug 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Peter
  • Alegi
Entertainment, Entrepreneurships and Politics in South Arfican Football in the 1950s
30 Jul 2003 - 3:15pm
  • Daryl
  • Glaser
Does Hypocrisy Matter? The Case of US foreign Policy
29 Jul 2003 - 3:15pm
  • David Philemona
  • Goldberg Essed
Cloning Cultures: The Reproduction of Sameness and Race Critical Theory
28 Jul 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Lesley-Ann
  • Katz
Psychology and Perceptions of Justice: An Exploration of Socio - Biographical Indicators
21 Jul 2003 - 6:00pm
  • John
  • Matshikiza
The Road to Queenstown: A Chapter from a Biography of Todd Matshikiza
19 Jun 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Isabel
  • Hofmeyr
Thinking the relevance of the state - A literary view?'
10 Jun 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Susan
  • Van Zyl
The genes talk back: biological versus psychoanalytical accounts of the origins of homosexuality
5 Jun 2003 - 3:15pm
  • Marcia
  • Wright
Public Health, among the Lineaments of the Colonial State in Natal, 1901-1909
26 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • David
  • Fig
The Decision of the Zambian Government to Refuse GM Food Aid
22 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Kealeboga
  • Maphunye
Unethical Conduct, 'Maladministration/Mismanagement in South Africa's Contemporary Civil Service: Daunting Challenges to Management
20 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Tina
  • Sideris
Non-violent men in violent communities: Negotiating the head and the neck
19 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Ivor
  • Chipkin
The New Futurists. The Political Meaning of Transformation
15 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Patrick
  • Fitzgerald
Periodization of a hundred years of South African Public Administration'
12 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Craig
  • McKenzie
Editing Herman Charles Bosman
8 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Tom
  • Lodge
The ANC and the development of party politics in modern South Africa'
8 May 2003 - 12:30pm
  • Rita
  • Barnard
After Urgency: Ramphele, Tlali and the Politics of Space
6 May 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Nicole
  • Ridgeway
Culture, Contamination and Contagion: or, I If I touch you will I get what you got'
15 Apr 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Lorainne
  • Sherr
HIV and Parenthood - Mothers overwhelmed, Fathers overlooked
14 Apr 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Tom
  • Odhiambo
Love and troubled marriage in Kenyan popular fiction
10 Apr 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Steven
  • Robins
Grounding "globalisation from below": "Global citizens" in local spaces'
7 Apr 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Shireen Katie Paul
  • Ally Mooney Stewart
The State-Sponsored and Centralised Institutionalisation of an Academic Discipline: Sociology in South Africa, 1920-1970
31 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Lucien
  • van de Walt
Before Communism: Rethinking the Early Left in South Africa
27 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Bill
  • Melody
Developing the Information Infrastructure for South Africa's Information Society: How Markets and Regulation are Shaping Network Development and Access Opportunities'
25 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Nicole
  • Ulrich
The origins of FOSATU: the Trade Union Advisory Council, and the creation of a new trade union tradition, 1974-1979
17 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Lize
  • Kriel
Negotiating identity in contested space: African encounters, with Germans, Boers and Britons in late nineteenth century Transvaal
13 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Luci
  • Abrahams
South Africa in the Global Knowledge Economy: Structural irrelevance or successful new missions for development'
11 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Robert
  • Thornton
Flows of 'sexual substance' and representation of the body in South Africa
10 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Stanley
  • Trapido
The origins of the South African War: Reflections on the political economy
7 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Sindre
  • Bangstad
Hydra's Heads: Revisiting PAGAD Five Years On
6 Mar 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Barry
  • Munslow
Complex emergencies and development: When the State breaks down'
27 Feb 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Oscar
  • Monteiro
Traditional Weberian Bureaucracy and New Public Management: Exclusive or Complementray'
25 Feb 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Deborah
  • Posel
"Getting the nation talking about sex": Reflections on the ploitics of sexuality and nation-building in post apartheid South Africa
24 Feb 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Liz
  • Gunner
Writing the City: Four Post-Apartheid texts
4 Feb 2003 - 6:00pm
  • Elleke
  • Boehmer
Global Nets, Textual Webs, or, what isnt new about Empire
15 Nov 2002 - 2:30pm
  • Jim
  • Martin
Making Peace: Evaluation and Reconciliation
5 Nov 2002 - 3:00pm
  • Suzanne
  • Klausen
The uncertain future of white supremacy and the politics of fertility, 1920-1939
28 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Deborah
  • James
Tenure reformed: Policy and practice in the case of South Africa's landless people
21 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Preben
  • Kaarsholm
Moral Panic and Cultural Mobilisation: Responses to the crises of AIDS, crime and transition in a KwaZulu-Natal slum
15 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Irma
  • du Pless
The Body in Fiction: Afrikaner nationalism and children's literature in the 1940s
10 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Keith
  • Breckenridge
Biometric Government in the New South Africa
8 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Paul
  • Pronyk
Social Interventions for HIV/AIDS: The Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and gender Equity
7 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Steffen
  • Jensen
Above the Laws: Practices of Sovereignty in Surrey Estates, Cape Town
1 Oct 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Isak
  • Niehaus
Gendered Endings: Narratives of Sexuality and Suicide in the South African Lowveld
26 Sep 2002 - 6:00pm
  • Susan
  • Van Zyl
On Becoming a Citizen and Staying There: Ideas on social psychology, psychoanalysis and the state

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