Sakiru Adebayo: Melancholy in the Time of Pandemic
Sakiru Adebayo examines the multiple melancholies associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Sakiru Adebayo is a sessional lecturer in the Department of African Literature and Postdoctoral Fellow at WiSE...
17 Sep 202015min
Terry Kurgan: Two Photographs About Death
Terry Kurgan discusses two photographs, each found in her father’s possession, and both taken on the edge of graves, one in Ein al-Beida, Palestine and the other in a forest just outside the town of P...
3 Sep 202018min
Johannes Machinya: The Packed Suitcase: Living With Deportability
Johannes Machinya discusses the everyday experience of living with potential or imminent arrest and deportation for undocumented migrants in South Africa. Johannes Machinya is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fe...
20 Aug 202014min
Boehi, Concheiro San Vicente & Xaba: Urban Green Spaces During Covid-19
Melanie Boehi discusses botanical gardens and public parks in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic with Luciano Concheiro San Vicente and Phakamani m’Afrika Xaba. Melanie Boehi is a Visiting Researcher a...
6 Aug 202017min
Makhosazana Xaba: An Absent Presence: Writing Noni Jabavu's Life
In the latest episode of The WISER Podcast, Makhosazana Xaba discusses the life and work of Noni Jabavu, memoirist, reader, radio broadcaster and columnist. Makhosazana Xaba has published three poe...
23 Jul 202017min
Ruth Sacks: The Built Remainders of Kinshasa's Independence
In the latest episode of The WISER Podcast, Ruth Sacks discusses post-independence sites in Kinshasa, focusing especially on L’Échangeur [the Exchange] in Limete as a means of understanding processes ...
16 Jul 202013min
Oceanic Humanities: Below the Water Line
Confidence Joseph, Ryan Poinasamy, Meghan Judge and Mapule Mohulatsi go below the water line as they describe new avenues for research in the environmental humanities and critical ocean studies. Conf...
9 Jul 202014min
Pamila Gupta & Drew Thompson: Decolonising Visuality
Pamila Gupta and Drew Thompson discuss the visual archive of Ricardo Rangel, whose photography documents the last days of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique. Pamila Gupta is a Professor of histori...
2 Jul 202017min
