Category: Conferences
Listening to the Rivonia Trial
Courts, Archives and Liberation Movements A one-day international colloquium as part of the opening and study of the apartheid archives in South Africa Since 2012, the Department of Arts and Culture, the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARSSA) and Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA — French National Audiovisual...
Experimenting / Experiencing the City
The Urban Experience / South Africa & Elsewhere 11-20 May 2017 Through crossed perspectives, Experimenting / Experiencing the City will try to tackle both the risk and the interest of a multi-disciplinary approach to question the city. It aims to open the debate around the notions of “city” and “urban”...
Cuba & Africa
International Conference 23-24 May 2016 The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa The University of Cape Town and the French Institute of South Africa are convening an international conference on the links established between Cuba and several African countries after the...
A Luta Continua, 40 years later
International Conference 5 & 6 November 2015 French Institute of South Africa 1st floor, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein (Please note that the venue has changed to IFAS – 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein) > Conference website Contact: Caio Simões de Araújo International History Department, Graduate Institute, Geneva caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch
20 Years of Franco-South African Cooperation in Archaeology
12-16 October 2015 Johannesburg The 20th anniversary of the Franco-South African cooperation in archaeology is the occasion to celebrate the diversity and the richness of this partnership of scientific excellence. A series of scientific and cultural events will take place during the week of the 12th October 2015, from the...
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia
International Symposium 3 – 4 June 2015 6th Floor Richard Ward Building, University of the Witwatersrand Recent xenophobic attacks have placed South Africa’s complicated relationship with the rest of the continent on the public agenda, both within South Africa and in other countries. While other African countries offered political support...
Nigeria beyond 2014 – Prospects
International Conference 16-17 October 2014 Protea Auditorium, School of Tourism and Hospitality, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, University of Johannesburg What does it mean to speak or think of a future for Nigeria and Nigerians beyond its centenary? In what ways, and under what predictable and feasible socio-political scenarios migh...
Rescaling Natural Parks and the City
Urban Protected Areas Network: 3rd BiodiverCities International Conference 7-9 April 2014 The Old Mutual Conference and Exhibition Centre, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town This event proposes an opportunity for collective reflection on relationships between city and nature, through the showcase and exchange of experience and strategies for sustainable management...
Africa and the Indian Ocean: a long-term perspective
24-27 February 2014 The series of encounters co-organised by IFAS, UCT and Wits University aim at rethinking the exchanges that have been taking place between the African continent and the Indian Ocean since the 11th century. On the opposite side of the colonial myth of a continent viewed as isolated...
The Politics of Xenophobic Exclusion
ANR XenAfPol Closing conference 16-18 December 2013 Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT > Programme