The Body Is Present. Join us for our second annual conference happening from the 23rd-25th of April 2025.

‼️INVITATION | You are invited to a conference at Wits University. Title: The Body is Present – Rethinking the Afterlife of Violence and Legacies of Oppression 🗓️ Date: 23–25 April 2025 🕗 Time: 08:30 📍 Venue: Engineering Building, Braamfontein Campus East 💻 Online Platform:

Film, poetry and performance lectures you can expect at this year’s conference! The Body is Present. 23-25 April 2025. Open to all!

📢 From April 23–25, 2025, join the 2nd Toward Critical Apartheid Studies conference at Wits University 🎓 Theme: The body is present: Rethinking the Afterlives of Violence & Legacies of Oppression 🗣️: Mbembe, Sethembile Msezane, Nuttall, Anell Stacey Registration 👉🏾lc.cx/gdLudv

Hey everyone, tomorrow we host this three-day gathering at the Wits HGC. If keen, RSVP here: forms.gle/euCH4ptniBpTjQ… Or join us online here Join the meeting now Meeting ID: 390 044 477 957 Passcode: fK3si39u

Call for contributions: Re-membering Movements Colloquium 8-10 October 2026

His name was Henry Nxumalo. He wrote under the name “Mr Drum.” During apartheid, he risked his life to tell the truth. He exposed what the regime tried to keep hidden. In 1957, he was murdered while investigating an abortion racket. On this World Press Freedom Day, we honour a

Thoroughly enjoyed this article from Jamil! Wits Centre for Diversity Studies shado-mag.com/articles/opini…

This beast now has a publication date - 24 June, from the good people over at Manchester University Press! Read more about it here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

O rector bezinsuku zok'gcina.

Never a dull day with South African politics!

There's still a week left to submit abstracts for CASA's third annual symposium -- "Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the Global South" (deadline 1 July). Come join us!

It's publication day for "Southern Interregnum" - a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in the global South, co-authored by CASA director Alf Gunvald Nilsen and colleagues. Check it out here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/ University of Pretoria Progress in Political Economy (PPE) @adamdavidmorton

Thrilled to share that SAYAGA attended the #Y20SouthAfrica Pre-Summit In attendance was our Director of Research Siposihle Bungane, who co-chairs the Working Group on Multilateralism. Proud to contribute to this global dialogue and drive youth-led policy under the #G20SouthAfrica

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🗣️ Professor David Scott speaks on: “On Losing and Gaining Conceptual Languages: Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa between Revolution and Reparation” Join us for Part II of The Rethinking Project. 🗓️ 7 August 2025 📍 JIAS 🕰️ 17:30 for 18:00

We recently celebrated the intellectual legacy of Prof Chabani Manganyi. What a blast, man. Every contribution was just insightful! Thanks to NEST for this.