Category: Elsewhere
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...
Civil Rights Mouvements in Transnational Perspective
Africa-Americans and the “darker races” in the 20th century. Thursday 16 October 2014 14:00 Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, 36 Jorissen Street, Johannesburg Pap Ndiaye Professor of history at Sciences Po Paris. By contrast with US-centered studies of the Civil rights movement, my presentation will...
Archives of the Non-Racial – Workshop in Theory and Criticsim
29 June – 11 July 2014 Johannesburg, Mbabane, Durban, Ginsberg, Cape Town The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. Located in Johannesburg, we seek to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production. We are a...
Compact city strategies for Johannesburg
Faces of the City Seminar Series Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16h00 – 18h00 First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits East Campus Prof Serge Salat (President: Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France) Abstract: Compactness is an important attribute of the most sustainable cities. Compact cities are...
South Africa: Developmental failure or neoliberal success?
Workshop on the Political Economy of South Africa 13 March 2014; 8:30am – 17:00pm Wits Club The main objective of this workshop was to unpack the concurrent political, economic and social dynamics of neoliberal deepening under a democratic regime, thereby shedding light on the complex unfolding and idiosyncrasies of...