Learning from Africa’s adaptation
Urban life is being built not just through infrastructure, but through improvisation and social intelligence.
Slow Poison: Colonial Legacies and the Unfinished Project of Decolonisation
Professor Mahmood Mamdani will be in conversation with Angelo Fick on nationalism, ethnicity, and the turn to neoliberalism.
New book: Environmental Entanglements
New book: Analysing Environmental Discourse
This powerful book by WiCDS research assoxiate Scott Burnett examines the many complexities of environmental discourse in the age of climate crisis.
Legitimacy Debates, the myth of ‘Western Philosophy,’ and the Contribution of Ben Kies
New book: The Queer Politics of Pride
An important new publication from WiCDS Research Associate Daniel Conway, this is the first book to explore the queer politics of LGBTQ+ Pride in global terms
Beyond Binaries project challenges practices in knowledge production
Scholars say new forms of solidarity are desperately needed and that the social sciences must continue to resist and dismantle longstanding hierarchies.
Extremist Mythologies: WiCDS 11th annual conference
Staff and students achievements in the Political Studies Department
We have good news to share regarding the recent achievements of our staff and students!
Rethinking Women’s Histories in South Africa
Rethinking Women’s Histories in South Africa
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ philosopher elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Lucy Allais, Professor of Philosophy at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ and at Johns Hopkins University, is the first female South African philosopher to join the Academy.
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Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ PhD students in Faculty of Humanities receive 2024 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ PhD students Sasha Rai (L) and Phindile Tabata receive the 2024 Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards.
Meet the 2024 Friedel Sellschop Fellows
Doctors Saeideh Babaee, Ashley Coates, Isaac Nape, and Matt Noakes are the 2024 Friedel Sellschop Fellows.
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ scholars and publisher win humanities and social sciences awards
Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Professor Isabel Hofmeyr wins best non-fiction: monograph and her publisher, Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½ Press, specially awarded.
Strike down the Electoral Amendment Act - it has been a mess from the beginning
Fifty percent of all the voters might cast their vote for just one wonderful independent. How many seats would that half of the electorate have in Parliament?
Bumper year for feminist scholar
A book, international academic residency and a fellowship on the cards for Professor Srila Roy.