Category: Events
Print, Publishing and Cultural Production in South Africa
Book History Seminars 13 May 2013 Graduate Centre, University of Pretoria International Seminar co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University Supported by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme Provisional Programme: 9:00-10:30 – Session 1: Situating Book History in (South) Africa Archie L....
Archaeology
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 12 April 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Lyn Wadley Honorary Professor of Archaeology – School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies – Institute for Human Evolution – University of the Witwatersrand Highlights of Research at the Middle Stone Age...
Linguistics
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 13 February 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Thabo Ditsele (Student at Tshwane University of Technology – TUT) Perceptions of Black South African languages: A survey of the attitudes of Setswana-speaking university students toward their first language. Pierre...
Emerging Middle Class in South Africa
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 January 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Elodie Escusa (Sciences-Po Bordeaux / LAM) Making One’s Way up the Social Ladder in Johannesburg, the Strategies of the Lower Middle Class and Social Trajectories. An Ethnographic Study of First-Time Home...
Memory and City
13-16 September 2011 Johannesburg With a few exceptions (for example some cities on the Swahili coast, see Abungu 1998), the issue of heritage in Africa remains, in academic literature as well as among institutions in charge of the economic valorisation of heritage, very much attached to rural areas and...
Constitutions and the Rule of Law in Africa since Independance
an African dialogue 28 – 29 October 2010 Old Mess Hall, Old Fort, Constitution Hill The issue of constitutions in Africa as the cornerstone of independent and democratic societies is not new: in the 1960s, the era of the Independences in both anglophone and francophone Africa, just like that...
The Current Status of African Lanuages in Education
CentrPol Research Project. Second Workshop 12 March 2010 9:00 – 16:00 – Room B110, Aldoel Building, Groenkloof Campus, University of Pretoria According to the national language policy, learners in SA ought to receive instruction in their mother-tongue during the first three years of formal compulsory schooling (Foundation Phase). However,...
Creolising Societies
Theory & Experiences from Reunion Island, the French Antilles… and South Africa? Public Conference: 5-6 May 2009 Bernard Price Building East Campus, Wits University This two-day seminar, open to the public, discussed the concept of “creolisation” and its circulation from Reunion and the French Antilles to South Africa. “Creolisation”...
The European Social Model
Which benefits for South Africa and Africa? 15 October 2008 South African Institute of International Affairs Jan Smuts House, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand The French Institute of South Africa, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the South African Institute of International Affairs will host...
African Meeting Process for Debate and Proposals on Governance in Africa
Southern African Perspectives 17-19 June 2008 – Polokwane 20 June 2008 – Pretoria The search for forms of governance adapted to the different development aspirations and requirements of contemporary Africa raises, in almost every domain, the question of power legitimacy, between tradition and modernity, between what is local and...