Wits University Press and WiSER invite you to the launch of the winner of the 2017 Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award, Michael Neocosmos’ Thinking Freedom in Africa Toward a theory of emancipatory politics “The concept and phenomenology of freedom are subjects of heated ongoing debates. Michael Neocosmos’s brilliant tome brings this discourse, bringing it to […]

The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation in collaboration with Wits University Press and Pan Macmillan have great pleasure in inviting you to an afternoon with retired Constitutional Court judges, Albie Sachs and Dikgang Moseneke The judges will be in conversation with Niren Tolsi, freelance journalist and co-founding editor of The Con (theconmag.co.za) about their new books; We, the People (Albie Sachs), and My […]

You are invited to join Wits University Press and Chabani Manganyi at the CIRCA Gallery, Rosebank, Johannesburg for the launch of Chabani’s memoir APARTHEID AND THE MAKING OF A BLACK PSYCHOLOGIST “Prof Manganyi’s thoughtful and meticulous account of what it has meant to become South Africa’s first black psychologist is particularly relevant for our times. Sadly, the issues of […]

BOOK LAUNCH You are invited by Wits University Press, UWC’s Centre for Humanties Research and The Book Lounge to pay tribute to the memory of eminent historian and activist Martin Legassick at the launch of his posthumously published book HIDDEN HISTORIES OF GORDONIA There are few areas in South Africa like the Gordonia region of the Northern Cape […]

LAUNCH INVITATION Wits University Press invite you to the launch of Maxim Bolt’s book Zimbabwe’s Migrants and South Africa’s Border Farms: The Roots of Impermanence During the Zimbabwean crisis, millions crossed through the border fence to South Africa, searching for work as farm labourers. In a time of intensified pressures on commercial agriculture in South Africa following […]

Tshepo Moloi will be in discussion with Clive Glaser, Professor of History at Wits, and David Lebethe, lawyer and founding member of the branch of the South African Student Movement at Bodibeng High, in Kroonstad, in 1973. WHEN Wednesday 2 September 2015, 17:30 for 18:00 WHERE Cafe Fino – Restaurant at Origins Centre, Wits University Yale Rd, Braamfontein. […]

You are cordially invited to the Department of Sociology, University of Pretoria Prof Achille Mbembe from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Wits wil speak on South Africa’s Fanonian Moment Copies of ‘On the postcolony’ will be available for sale on the day of the seminar. R250 will get you a copy which […]

Join Ilana van Wyk for the Launch of her book, A Church of Strangers: The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa at the University of Cape Town. The launch, which is being hosted by HUMA, will be on Wednesday, 19 August, from 1 to 2:30 PM. Van Wyk will be speaking […]

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SOUTH AFRICAN COLLEGE OF MUSIC, UCT  CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO A BOOK EVENT CELEBRATING THE KIRBY COLLECTION Please join us for the launching of the third edition of THE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE  INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA By Percival R Kirby Speakers: Prof Sakhela Buhlungu, Dean of Humanities, UCT […]

Wits University Press & WiSER are delighted to invite you to the launch of the first African edition of Achille Mbembe’s path-breaking book  On the Postcolony Achille Mbembe, philosopher and political scientist based at WiSER will be in conversation with Harry Garuba (University of Cape Town) and Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits University) WHEN: Thursday 11 June 2015 […]

Wits University Press & the Goethe-Institut South Africa have the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of  GAZE REGIMES  :  FILM AND FEMINISMS IN AFRICA The editors of the book, Jyoti Mistry & Antje Schuhmann will be in conversation with Lindiwe Dovey (African Film, SOAS, University of London)  WHEN Tuesday 19 May 2015 at […]

You are invited to attend a seminar and book launch  on Indebtedness in SA: mediated capitalism. Deborah James will be in conversation with Lorenzo Fioramonti and John Sharp. When: Tuesday 14th April, Time: 16.15 – 18.30   (reception at 17:30) Seminar 16h15 – 17h00 Book Launch: 17h00 – 17h30 (small reception to follow) Venue: Old College […]