The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, @WitsUniversity. [email protected]
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined August 2013
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📚 New Publication!
Black Lawyers in South Africa explores the role of Black legal professionals in shaping law, liberation and the transformation of South Africa’s historically segregated legal profession.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/02582473.202…
#LegalHistory #Research
This month, Trust in Transition explores how institutions and technologies shape trust.
From digital ID and voter registration to credit ratings and financial power, we examine inclusion, exclusion, and when systems meant to build trust undermine it.
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Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research researchers reflect on the rich history and character of Johannesburg citylifearts.co.za/wits-inst…
Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations | Seminar 11
🕊️ There’s No Place Called Home: Hacking the Familiar
Presented by James Webb
Join us for an illustrated talk and listening session exploring birdsong, sound, place and the unexpected encounters between birds and humans.
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall.
📅 Monday, 19 October 2026
🕓 16:00–17:00 SAST
💻 Join via Zoom: wiser.wits.ac.za/civicrm/mai…
🎥 Watch the video: tinyurl.com/58m9x2ar
🔑 Password: AvianEncounters191026
#AvianEncounters #WiSER
Trust Seminar | Wed 30 Sept, 16:00 SA
Shuaib Jalal-Eddeen presents: “Everyday strategies of debt resistance: the case of fintech in Nigeria.”
The paper explores how fintech users in Jimeta resist exploitative debt collection practices.
🔗: Paper and Reg Zoom link
Please read the paper before the seminar & register for Zoom: wiser.wits.ac.za
Trust, technology and institutions across Africa: this month’s edition explores AI, mobile money, digital finance, state authority and trust law, plus what Africa can learn from East Asia’s development experience.
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🎉 Today, WiSER celebrates 25 years of conversations, questions, research and scholarly exchange.
Thank you to everyone who has shaped our intellectual community through seminars, collaborations, research and shared ideas.
Here’s to the next 25 years! 🎓
Happy 25th Anniversary
🤖 AI in the African University: African Humanities after AI rupture
WISER & the SA-UK SARChI Chair in Digital Humanities invite you to a Chatham House seminar on AI’s impact on African universities & humanities.
📅17 Sep 2026 | 12 PM
📍WISER
📩RSVP: [email protected]
Tafelberg invites you to the launch of
LOVE and VIOLENCE
The Revolt Against Permanent Juniority
Achille Mbembe will be in conversation with Mbuyiseni Ndlozi
Wednesday, 9th September
18:00 – 20:00
Thabo Mbeki Foundation,
3 North Aveue, Riviera
RSVP: [email protected]
📸 KHULULEKANI: 20 YEARS OF FACES AND PHASES
Celebrating two decades of Zanele Muholi’s groundbreaking Faces and Phases.
Join us as Khululekani returns to Johannesburg, where the series began.
📍 WiSER, Wits University
🗓️ 8 Sept
🎉 17:00–21:00
RSVP: [email protected]
How does money move, and who gets to govern it? This month’s edition explores remittances, cross-border flows, gold, cash and South Africa’s evolving digital payments landscape, tracing how intermediaries shape access to value.
URL: shorturl.at/HSuQw
🐦 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations
Join us for the 5th seminar session with Madhumita Lahiri, exploring birds, cinema & human–bird relations through All That Breathes and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.
📅 31 Aug | ⏰ 16:00–17:00 SAST
🔗 Zoom: shorturl.at/rfZZP
🐦 Join us for the 3rd session of Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations.
🎨 Bird-Brained: Diasporic and Migratory Subjectivities through the Mind and Eyes of a Printmaker with Prof Vulindlela Nyoni
📅 17 Aug |
⏰ 4–5pm SAST
💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/bdd5xfvy
#AvianEncounters
