Category: Events
The “Lupemban puzzle” or the difficulty of western tropical African Middle Stone Age research
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies Thursday 18 July 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Archaeology Seminar Room (Room 212) Hunter-gatherers groups ability to adapt to tropical rainforest in the Paleolithic has been, and to a certain extent, still is a matter of debate....
Social Cohesion in South Africa
Scientifically engaging with a buzzword International Symposium Organised by IFAS-Recherche, Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Sciences Po Toulouse and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Event Coordinator: Léo Fortaillier (Science Po Toulouse/LaSSP/UWC) In South Africa, one of the most (or the most) unequal country in the...
Archiving in the Middle-East
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | Wits University Jihane Sfeir will present the book co-edited with Christine Jungen : Archiving in the Middle-East. Friday 17 May 2019 12:00 | Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, Humanities Building, Wits University What is an archival document in the Middle-East? How to shape it, and how to make...
Territories of migration: Refugees in Space and Time
Questioning migrant experiences and testimonies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East A one-day conference gathering specialists of Sub-Saharan Africa and of the Middle-East In the study of the current refugee crisis, the UNHCR highlights two great areas of departure: the Middle East and Central Africa. Cities such as Johannesburg...
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...