Invite | WiSER’s online seminar series: Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South Yota Batsaki on "The Plant at the End of the World: Invasive Species in the Anthropocene" 🗓️10 March 2025 🕓 4-5 PM 🔗 Reg: shorturl.at/3ejCv

Trust Project | What is South Africa Paypal Mafia Speakers: Efthimios Karayiannides, Sarah Nuttall, William Shoki, Jonny Steinberg Chair: Dinesh Balliah 🗓️ : 6 March 2025 🕕 : 6pm 📍: Online RSVP: shorturl.at/bX5JM

Invite | Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures – Ruth Sacks explores the intersection of ecology, history, and imagination in the Global South by Ruth Sacks 17th March 2025 4-5pm RSVP: shorturl.at/WxHiD

#2 | WiSER and Wits Water warmly invite you to a monthly discussion series, Interdisciplinary conversations on water Conversation 2: Water Extraction 🗓️ Thursday March 27, 🕐 1:00 - 2:15pm 📍 WiSER Seminar Room

‘They began to see that science was not isolated from politics but shaped by it’—Read an excerpt from Our Science, Ourselves by Christa Kuljian johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/03/25/the…

Today! Great speakers, crucial conversation

First review of Publishing from the South out Wits University Press WiSER cambridge.org/core/journals/…

🌱 Plant Lives Seminar Series Resumes May 5. Join Us Online Mondays at 4PM SAST! WiSER’s acclaimed online seminar series, Plant Lives: Critical Plant Humanities – Conversations from the Global South, will pause on April 21 and 28 in recognition of SA public holidays.

The Interdisciplinary Conversations on Water series, hosted by WiSER and Wits Water, starts up again next week, after the University break and the series of long weekends. 📍 WiSER, Seminar Room 🕐 1 - 2pm 🔈 Craig Sheridan

WiSER Trust Project invites you to an online panel discussion: Techbros Jhb and Big Daddies Speakers: Nicky Falkof, Hlonipha Mokoena, Kyle Findlay Chair: Iginio Gagliardone 🗓️ Thursday, 8th May 2025 🕕 6pm (Jhb time)

Join Christa Kuljian in conversation with Catherine Burns and Pontsho Pilane 🗓️ 20 May 🕐 13:15 📍 13th Floor, Es’kia Mphahlele Building Wits

Excited to host author Christa Kuljian, from WiSER, at WiCDS next week. Christa will be talking to Prof Catherine Burns and Pontsho Pilane about her outstanding new book Our Science Ourselves.

Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South. Riley Snorton will speak On the Resurgence of Pioneer Species 🗓️ Monday, 19th May 2025 🕓 4-5pm (Johannesburg time) 🔗 shorturl.at/nuSTk

Plant Lives Critical Plant Humanities - Conversations from the Global South Nokwanda Makunga will speak on Current perspectives on an emerging formal natural products sector in South Africa 🗓️ Monday, 26th May 2025 🕒 4-5pm (Johannesburg time)

Trust in Transition #16 This month, Trust in Transition explores how digital money reshapes trust—from Trump’s crypto populism to SASSA’s smart card mess. Who gets to be visible, credible, and counted in today’s volatile financial and political systems? #DigitalMoney #Trust

Plant Live | Luciano Concherio San Vicente will speak on Among Ahuehuetes, Lawn Grass, and Spanish Moss: Chapultepec as seen through the Critical Plant Humanities Monday, 2nd June 2025 4-5pm (Johannesburg time) URL: shorturl.at/jxKSq

Invite Book Launch | Restless Infections: Public Art and a Transforming City. Jay Pather launches Restless Infections with WiSER’s Prof. Nuttall will be amongst the contributions. 🗓️ : 5 June 📍: The Book Lounge (Cape Town) 🔖: [email protected]