Category: Elsewhere
The Sterkfontein Caves and Little Foot
The Sterkfontein Caves, situated in the Cradle of Humankind about 40 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, represent one of the world’s richest sites in hominid fossils, and discoveries there continue to astound the international scientific community. The discovery, excavation and research on Little Foot through the years: In the late 1890s...
La Fabrique de l’Histoire – Radio broadcasts
A broadcast series by the french radio show La Fabrique de l’Histoire (France Culture), dedicated to South Africa, and produced in collaboration with IFAS-Recherche L’équipe de La Fabrique de l’Histoire a rendu visite à l’IFAS-Recherche en septembre 2018 pour enregistrer une série d’émissions couvrant l’ensembre de la richesse historique de l’Afrique...
Approche photographique des complexes fermés à Johannesburg
These photos are part of Karen Lévy’s PhD research (LAVUE/Université Paris Nanterre/IFAS-Recherche): Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes ? Discours et acteurs de la fabrique urbaine. Une étude du cas de Johannesburg, un détour comparatif par New Delhi. The circulation of the urban model referred to as ‘gated communities’...
Cities, Geo-Technologies and Data-Driven Urbanism
An International Workshop at the University of Cape Town This workshop is organised in a partnership with IFAS-Research, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), IFRA Nairobi, Sorbonne Université Paris 1 Panthéon’s PRODIG and the African Centre for Cities. Monday 11 June | 8.30 to 16.45 R.W.James building,Corner University Avenue & Madiba Circle, Room...
Call for applications/Appel à candidatures INHA 2019
3-months grants for art historians from Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia Bourses de 3 mois à destination des chercheurs/euses en histoire de l’art d’Europe de l’Est, Afrique, Moyen-Orient, Inde et Asie du Sud-Est The Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris is...
Laureate Research Projects of the FMSH Atlas Mobility Program
IFAS-Research is proud to support two laureates of the 2018 Atlas Mobility Programme of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (House of Human Sciences Foundation). As part of our partnership with the FMSH, Solène Baffi and Federica Toldo have been selected for the following projects: > The revolution...
Thomas Piketty to deliver the 13th Nelson Mandela annual lecture
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is pleased to announce that French economist Thomas Piketty will deliver the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 3 October 2015. Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the...
Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa
Colloquim 28-29 May 2015 HUMA Seminar Room, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy. The flow of technology, missionaries and merchants brought printing to African countries....
Tracking the Timbuktu Manuscripts
A film by Jean Crépu Film screening (French with English subtitles) Followed by a round table with Jean Crépu, director of the film, Lazare Eloundou, head of UNESCO in Bamako & Dr. Abdelkader Maïga, director of the Ahmed Baba Institute, Timbuktu Monday 25 May | 17:45 Alliance Française of...
The Minority Paradox. Blackness in France
Monday 27 October 2014 11:00 Centre for Humanity Research (CHR) Seminar Room, University of the Western Cape Robert Sobukwe Road, Belville, 7535 Pap Ndiaye Professor of History at Sciences Po Paris. Many observers of French social and political life seem to have recently discovered the existence of Black populations...