Trust, technology and institutions across Africa: this month’s edition explores AI, mobile money, digital finance, state authority and trust law, plus what Africa can learn from East Asia’s development experience. tinyurl.com/Joe-Studwell

🎓 WiSER Doctoral Fellowships 2027 Applications are open for 3-year full-time or 5-year part-time PhD fellowships under the African Trust Infrastructures Project, supported by Standard Bank. 📅 Deadline: 15 Nov 2026, 11pm Link on the WiSER website

🎉 Today, WiSER celebrates 25 years of conversations, questions, research and scholarly exchange. Thank you to everyone who has shaped our intellectual community through seminars, collaborations, research and shared ideas. Here’s to the next 25 years! 🎓 Happy 25th Anniversary

🤖 AI in the African University: African Humanities after AI rupture WISER & the SA-UK SARChI Chair in Digital Humanities invite you to a Chatham House seminar on AI’s impact on African universities & humanities. 📅17 Sep 2026 | 12 PM 📍WISER 📩RSVP: [email protected]

Tafelberg invites you to the launch of LOVE and VIOLENCE The Revolt Against Permanent Juniority Achille Mbembe will be in conversation with Mbuyiseni Ndlozi Wednesday, 9th September 18:00 – 20:00 Thabo Mbeki Foundation, 3 North Aveue, Riviera RSVP: [email protected]

📸 KHULULEKANI: 20 YEARS OF FACES AND PHASES Celebrating two decades of Zanele Muholi’s groundbreaking Faces and Phases. Join us as Khululekani returns to Johannesburg, where the series began. 📍 WiSER, Wits University 🗓️ 8 Sept 🎉 17:00–21:00 RSVP: [email protected]

How does money move, and who gets to govern it? This month’s edition explores remittances, cross-border flows, gold, cash and South Africa’s evolving digital payments landscape, tracing how intermediaries shape access to value. URL: shorturl.at/HSuQw

🐦 Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations Join us for the 5th seminar session with Madhumita Lahiri, exploring birds, cinema & human–bird relations through All That Breathes and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge. 📅 31 Aug | ⏰ 16:00–17:00 SAST 🔗 Zoom: shorturl.at/rfZZP

🐦 Join us for the 3rd session of Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations. 🎨 Bird-Brained: Diasporic and Migratory Subjectivities through the Mind and Eyes of a Printmaker with Prof Vulindlela Nyoni 📅 17 Aug | ⏰ 4–5pm SAST 💻 Zoom: tinyurl.com/bdd5xfvy #AvianEncounters

Inside the studio where films run backwards, light becomes landscape, and the outside world dissolves into art William Kentridge on the creative process. William Kentridge will be in conversation with Terry Kurgan 29 July 2026 - 18:00 Love Books, Rustenburg Rd, Melville

This month: welcome to our new Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Edson Chiwenga, reflections from #Bhalisa6 in Rome, and insights on fintech, flooding, tokenised cattle, Otto1890, and Brazil's PIX. 🔗 shorturl.at/4gyDE 📩 Subscribe: shorturl.at/MJnSn

Join the launch of Avian Encounters: Bird/Human Relations, a new seminar series with Isabel Hofmeyr & Sarah Nuttall. Nancy Jacobs presents The Global Grey Parrot, exploring how Africa's grey parrot became a global commodity. 📅27 July ⏰4–5pm SAST 🔗Zoom: shorturl.at/QLAr9

This seminar presents highlights from the Panizzi Lectures delivered by Isabel Hofmeyr at the British Library late last year. RSVP :  forms.cloud.microsoft/r/yXkf…

Congratulations to Dr Buhle Dlodlo and Dr Luck Makuyana, together with your supervisors, Prof Hofmeyr and Prof Musila, on this remarkable achievement. Wishing you all the very best as you embark on the next chapter. May it be filled with continued success @WitsUniversity