Category: Events
Rescaling Natural Parks and the City
Urban Protected Areas Network: 3rd BiodiverCities International Conference 7-9 April 2014 The Old Mutual Conference and Exhibition Centre, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town This event proposes an opportunity for collective reflection on relationships between city and nature, through the showcase and exchange of experience and strategies for sustainable management...
Texts in the City: Power and Discourse
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 March 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein William Kelleher Professeur certifié. Académie d’Aix-Marseille Based on my Master’s thesis, this seminar is an exploration of the place, and space, of two neighbourhoods: the Marché du Soleil neighbourhood in Marseille,...
Africa and the Indian Ocean: a long-term perspective
24-27 February 2014 The series of encounters co-organised by IFAS, UCT and Wits University aim at rethinking the exchanges that have been taking place between the African continent and the Indian Ocean since the 11th century. On the opposite side of the colonial myth of a continent viewed as isolated...
Can art make space public in Johannesburg?
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 4 February2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Pauline Guinard Ecole normale supérieur – Paris UMR Lavue-Laboratoire Mosaïques Based on my PhD thesis, this seminar will look at public spaces in Johannesburg through the lens of art. The issues raised...
The Politics of Xenophobic Exclusion
ANR XenAfPol Closing conference 16-18 December 2013 Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT > Programme
Archaeology
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 October 2013 17:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Aurore Val (Evolutionary Sciences Institute, University of the Witwatersrand) A 2 Million Year Old Forensic Case from the Cradle of Humankind: How Did the Bones of Australopithecus Sediba Got Preserved? Marina Redondo...
Mapping South African Black Theology from a Central European Approach
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 4 December 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Silvia Kamanova PhD Candidate, Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague Silvia Kamanova studied theology and social sciences at the Hussite Theological Faculty in Prague, in Basel (Switzerland) and in Freiburg i.B....
South Africa: 20th Anniversary of Freedom and the General Elections of 2014
Overview of the Economic and Political State Friday 22 November 2013 9:00 – 13:30 Ifri Conference Room, 27 rue de la Procession, 75015 Paris Despite a very intricate context at the end of apartheid, South Africa was successful in its transition through the iconic figure of Nelson Mandela...
Africa and Global History
New Perspectives 16-19 April 2013 Universities of the Witwatersrand & Cape Town The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Wits University and UCT are organising a week of encounters between historians of the first globalisation in the early modern period working in different areas. It is hoped that these...
The Arts and Crafts of Literacy
Manuscript Cultures in Muslim Sub-Saharan Africa Book History Conference 5-6 September 2013 University of Cape Town An International Conference convened by: Dr Dmitry BONDAREV (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg) Dr Andrea BRIGAGLIA (CCI; Department of Religious Studies, UCT) Prof Shamil JEPPIE (Tombouctou Manuscripts Project...