Category: Events
Cape Town Harmonies
Memory, Humour & Resilience Tuesday 10 April 2018 14:00 – 15:30 – Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape Thursday 12 April 2018 16:00 – 18:00 – College of Music, University of Cape Town Armelle Gaulier (LAM-Bordeaux) Cape Town Harmonies : Memory, Humour & Resilience proposes an analysis of...
The Visionary Animal | An Insight into San Rock Art
‘Visuality’ as a source of understanding San rock art from southern African countries Public lecture by Renaud Ego Wednesday 4 April 2018 18:30 – Alliance Française of Cape Town Thursday 5 April 2018 18:00 – Origins Centre, Wits University The interpretation of San rock art has been instructed...
Drawing a line in the sand? Another (hi)story of borders
Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Wednesday 7 March 2018 13:15 – 14:15 – Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, Wits University Matthieu Rey (IREMAM-CNRS) It is commonly accepted that the Ottoman Empire was divided up by the European powers, predominantly the French and British, at the...
An Archaeological Investigation of LSA sites in North Eastern Zimbabwe
A Case Study of Madzimudzangara Rock Shelter, Ruchera and Muchinjike Caves Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to cancel this seminar. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Friday 23 February 2018 13:20 – Origins Building, 2nd floor, Room 212, Wits University Happinos...
Of Forefathers, Mining Companies and Noxious Weeds
Environment Change, Urban Governance and Citadinity in Hwange Town (Zimbabwe) Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Tuesday 6 February 2018 16:00 – 17:30 – First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits University Emilie Guitard (IFRA-Nigeria) The town of Hwange (Zimbabwe), founded on coal mining industry, is located...
Elands Bay Day
The Stone Age of Elands Bay Cave in Perspective Workshop 1 December 2017 09.00 – 16.00 – 17.00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Organised by Guillaume Porraz (CNRS / AnTET) & John E. Parkington (UCT) > Programme Elands Bay Cave, located on the Atlantic Coast north...
Materialities of Documentation
Negotiating statehood, rights and services in contemporary urban South Africa Workshop 13 November 2017 10.00 – 17.00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Organised by Jeanne Bouyat (SciencesPo Paris / SPUG) & Rodolphe Demeestère (Paris 1/ PSUG) This workshop brings together multi-disciplinary social sciences research that takes...
The Later Stone Age of Bushman Rock Shelter
Contribution of zooarchaeology to the understanding of Human subsistence strategies Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Tuesday 7 November 2017 13:15 – Cate Druce Lecture Hall, ESI, Wits University Léa Feyfant (TRACES / ESI) Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo Province, South Africa) contains rich Later and Middle Stone Age deposits....
Rural social organizing under authoritarian governance
Making spaces in Angola and Brazil Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits History Workshop Wednesday 13 September 2017 13:15 – History Workshop, Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, East Campus, Wits University Brad Safarik (Sciences Po Bordeaux / LAM) The military coup in 1964 Brazil consolidated the political will...
3.5 million years of human evolution at the Sterkfontein Caves, Gauteng, South Africa
Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 – 13:30 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Amélie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage:...