It's PW back from the grave!

WiCDS director Nicky Falkof discussing Trump and South Africa on the Tortoise Sensemaker podcast tortoisemedia.com/listen/daily-s…

This was fun!

Today! Great speakers, crucial conversation

Next week! Join us in collab with the wonderful Sophiatown Arts Akademy for a conversation about using visual art to interrogate the persistent forms of colonialism.

T&F Social Sciences and Humanities Orock & Geschiere explore sexuality, enrichment, and paranoia in a nuanced, deeply historical account of African moral panics. Review by Nicky Falkof: doi.org/10.1080/014198…

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)

The first group of white Afrikaner South Africans who were granted refugee status have departed for America. theconversation.com/trump-and-sout… 💻 Nicky Falkof, Wits University #politics

Generative AI kills curiosity, critical reasoning, and is absolutely creating falsified records. This semester I found projects/papers with: 1. Bibliographies with sources that dont exist 2. Fake quotations from REAL books 3. Fake quotations from FAKE books 1/5

Interview with PRX's The World about Afrikaner whiteness. Sadly they cut the bit where I called Tr*mp 'great white racist big daddy whale' theworld.org/segments/2025/…

Two fantastic events at WiCDS next week, for the end of the semester. First, a book talk with three powerhouse feminists:

Second, a WiCDS Wednesday seminar featuring a wonderful group of architect-urbanist-educators:

Cover reveal! Out 11 August with @PenguinBooksSA. We've got cults, muti murders, satanists, prophets, exorcists, it's a veritable cornucopia of occult anxiety.

You'll hear more about these two on the podcast in the next few weeks! Karin Mitchell's The High Treason Club is riveting and eye-opening and Nicky Falkof's The Devil Made Me Do It is my kind of analytical yet highly-readable exploration of occult crimes

New book alert! The Devil Made Me Do It: Understanding Occult Crime in South Africa by Nicky Falkof is out now from @PenguinBooksSA: readinglist.click/sub/find-out-w…

Now available in stores and online. Support your local independent book shop if you can! Takealot: takealot.com/the-devil-made… Loot: loot.co.za/product/the-de… Wordsworth: wordsworth.co.za/products/the-d… Graffiti Books: graffitibooks.co.za/index.php?page… Amazon: amazon.co.za/Devil-Made-Me-…

On Monday 11 August, WiCDS Director, Nicky Falkof, presented her inaugural lecture as a full professor at Wits University, on the topic of 'Risk, anxiety and moral panic in Johannesburg’. The session is available on YouTube. Check it out! youtube.com/live/it1WsMrHI…

Read an extract from The Devil Made Me Do It on the wonderful The JRB johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2025/08/13/doe…

A flawed US State Department report on South Africa claims human rights are deteriorating because of the abuse of white farmers. The deeper issues that are playing out: theconversation.com/trump-and-sout… 💻 Nicky Falkof, Wits University #Politics

The Devil Made Me Do It: the hows and the whys of our fixation on occult crime enca.com/lifestyle/do-s…