Africa's Great Civilizations - a new television series hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - will be aired by PBS in the United States in February 2017. Hlonipha Mokoena is featured in its first trailer.
An English edition of Achille Mbembe's Critique de la raison negre will be published by Duke University Press in 2017. Critique of Black Reason was translated by Laurent Dubois.
Achille Mbembe will take part in the first Night of Ideas and Philosophy to be held in New York. The event is organised by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.
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Zanele Muholi received the insignia of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the Ambassador of France to South Africa on 22 November at a ceremony in Pretoria.
Bongani Madondo reviewsFlowers of a Broken Smile by Mak Manaka for the Johannesburg Review of Books, discusses the heavy metal fans of Botswana for Huck Magazine, and explores the work of An
In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.
Achille Mbembe will take part in this year's Conrad Festival, alongside Siri Hustvedt, Agneta Pleijel, Adam Hochschild, Wojciech Brzoska, Maria Dąbrowska, Frédéric Boyer and Serge Bloch. The Festival takes place in Krakow, Poland, 23-29 October. For more information, see here.
Prof Sarah Nuttall took part in a recent debate, 'No Longer at Ease: Debating Race and Identity Politics in South Africa,' at the University of Cape Town.
WiSER’s 2017 Winter Programme in Critical Thought will run from July to September this year. As in 2016, we will design and curate a cluster of afternoon symposia, conferences, seminars and public events, many of them in collaboration with other institutes or departments.
On 23-24 October 2017, the Université catholique de Louvain will hold a workshop on Achille Mbembe's work, before awarding him with an honorary doctorate. For more information, see here.
We are delighted to announce that Jonny Steinberg will be joining WiSER’s staff in 2015. Steinberg has been appointed as Full Professor at WiSER as part of Vice Chancellor Adam Habib’s Distinguished Professorships programme.
A former Rhodes scholar, Steinberg has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford University where he currently teaches.
