WISER Seminar Papers
WISER is very pleased to host the Wits Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities. The presentations for the remainder of the current academic semester are listed below. The seminar takes place every Monday during the teaching term at 3:00pm in the WISER Seminar Room. The discussion will be more productive if participants read the paper prior to the event.
WISER, and its predecessor institutions the Institute for Advanced Study and the African Studies Institute, have hosted similar seminars that date back to the late 1960s. The archive of those events, and the past papers of the current semester, is available here. A printable version of the seminar schedule for the current year is available here.
The WISH seminar will continue to be held on-line for the foreseeable future; for the details of the Zoom meetings, please sign up for email notices at https://wiser.wits.ac.za/mail.
Participants must read the paper prior to the seminar.
The paper will typically only be available on the Friday preceding the seminar.
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Monday, 6 May, 2024 - 16:00 |
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"Revisiting the Dead Archive through Air and Atmospheres" (tbc) |
Monday, 13 May, 2024 - 16:00 |
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Witchcraft logics and the biometric citizen |
Monday, 20 May, 2024 - 16:00 |
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(Re)Configuring Atmospheres: Design, Technology and the Quest for ‘Pure Air’ in Colonial India |
Monday, 3 June, 2024 - 16:00 |
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Earth, Fire, Water: Reflections on Air and Atmospheres |
Monday, 10 June, 2024 - 16:00 |
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Carrot or Stick? Linking Nigeria’s National Identity Number (NIN) coerced enrolment with Questions of a shared Nigerian Identity |
Monday, 24 June, 2024 - 16:00 |
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Methodologies for Living with Toxicity: Polluting Infrastructures and Environmental, Reproductive and Racial Injustice in North London |
Monday, 1 July, 2024 - 16:00 |
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Atmospheres: Contestations and Configurations |