Public Discussion on Deciphering the Present

WiSER and The Innovation Foundation for Democracy invite you to a public discussion on 'Deciphering the Present'.

Chaired by Professor Lynn Morris, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research and Innovation at Wits, this event will consist of a three-way conversation between political historian and public intellectual Achille Mbembe, critical theorist Jacqueline Rose, cultural critic Sarah Nuttall, and moderated by feminist and sociologist Srila Roy.

At stake will be an attempt to decipher the current global moment and some of the key challenges of our times such as war and militarism, impending ecological breakdown, conflicts over gender and sexuality, the hollowing out of liberal democracy and the rise of reactionary authoritarianism and its alliance with the highest forms of techno-capitalism. Particular attention will be given to the conditions of possibility for new orders of democratic practice and the deepening of international justice.

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