Category: Events
From late Paleolithic to early Mesolithic technologies in southern Italy
A joint-seminar IFAS-Research | Wits University Based on her research, Giulia Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre/AnTET) will talk about the evolution of technical traditions from the late Upper Paleolithic to the early Mesolithic period in southern Italy. Wednesday 27 March 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Origins lecture theatre, room...
Book launch – Visionary Animal. Rock Art from Southern Africa
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. Visionary Animal is the...
The Routes of Medieval Africa: 11th-17th Centuries
Closing conference of the ANR Globafrica research project Globafrica is a research programme intitated in 2014 and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It aims at rethinking the global integration of Africa from a historical perspective before European Imperialism. It is hosted and run by the CNRS research...
Middle Class Life : the Repetition of the Model in the Townhouse Complexes
Middle Class Life : the Repetition of the Model in the Townhouse Complexes An exhibition by South African and international photographers Nocebo Bucibo | Lisa King | Melissa Bennet | Mack Magagane | Michelle Monareng | Shogan Naidoo | Musa Nxumalo | Natalie Payne | Paul Samuels | Bianca van...
“Through the veil”: Science unveils mysteries of San rock paintings in the Drakensberg and in Botswana
A public lecture by Adelphine Bonneau as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue. Thursday 6 December 2018 18.00 for 18.30 | Origins Centre Museum Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road & Enoch Sontonga Ave, Johannesburg > RSVP >...
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins
Colloquium on the persistence of the past in the architecture and infrastructure of colonialism and apartheid Organised by the Wits History Workshop & the School of Architecture & Planning (University of the Witwatersrand) Supported by IFAS-Recherche In traversing the stubborn landscapes of colonialism and apartheid, we are confronted with the...
Gated Communities & Townhouse Complexes
The mutation of a model from the upper class to the middle class Organised by Karen Lévy (Université Paris Nanterre) & Federica Duca (PARI) The circulation of the urban model referred to as gated communities contributes to the challenge of understanding contemporary urban spaces all over the world. The multiplication...
One basin, one governance ?
“Grey governance”, structuring inequalities and institutionalisation of cooperation on transboundary rivers in Southern Africa A seminar by Paul-Malo Winsback Chair: Magalie Bourblanc (GovInn / Ceepa / University of Pretoria/ CIRAD UMR G-EAU / Université de Montpellier) Discussant: Michela Marcatelli (Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies / University...
The spectacle versus the ordinary
Urban change and narratives of difference along a ‘Chinese’ street in suburban Johannesburg A joint seminar IFAS-Recherche / University of the Witwatersrand by Romain Dittgen & Gerald Chungu 1 Tuesday 6 November 2018 12:30 | African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS) – University of the Witwatersrand ACMS Seminar...
The mobilisation of South African data within rock arts’ ritual interpretations
A public lecture by Romain Lahaye as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Tuesday 13 November 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University Origins North Building, Origins Lecture Theatre, Room 105, first floor, Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road & Enoch...