Category: Events
The Institutionalization of Xenophobia in the contemporary South African State
Officials’ practices towards African Immigration in high schools of Johannesburg and police stations of Cape Town CUBES and FISH Seminar 21 June 2016 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jeanne Bouyat Ceri / Sciences Po Paris Rodolphe Demeestère CESSP / Paris 1 La Sorbonne Discussant: Aurelia...
100 Years of Memory
South Africa and WWI In July 2016, South Africa will commemorate the Centenary of the WWI Battle of Delville Wood, when 3 200 troops of the South African Infantry Brigade arrived on the battlefield of Delville Wood in the department of La Somme (France). This battle became one of...
The Ideological Scramble in Africa
How the Dream of African Development shaped a Continental Cold War (1945-1966) French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 01 June 2016 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Frank Gerits NRF / University of the Free State How could Africa in the mid-1960s become a Cold War...
Cuba & Africa
International Conference 23-24 May 2016 The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa The University of Cape Town and the French Institute of South Africa are convening an international conference on the links established between Cuba and several African countries after the...
How does a picture act ?
The power of images in San’s rock paintings from South Africa and Namibia, through examples of therianthropes and rain-animals Tuesday 5 April 2016, 18:00 Origin Center, Wits University & Thursday 7 April 2016, 20:00 South African Archaeology Society, Rodean School auditorium The analysis of San rock art largely originates...
Motivations, organization and stakes of craft sale in South Africa
A case study in Port-Elizabeth French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 06 April 2016 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Alicia Renard Université Lille I This presentation will be an opportunity to discuss my ongoing research concerning the sale of crafts by African immigrants in Port-Elizabeth....
South Africa’s military deployment in the DRC
The Privatization of a Foreign Policy French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 March 2016 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Robin Gastaldi Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne The basis of this research comes from a simple finding : most studies of South Africa’s foreign policy after Apartheid...
Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 08 March 2016 13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg Chantal Mouffe University of Westminister Respondents: Shireen Hassim – University of the Witwatersrand Peter Hudson – University of the Witwatersrand This lecture examines the limitations of liberal democratic theory in understanding...
Some Philosophical Reflections on Why the Global Fight Against Racism has Failed?
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 16 February 2016 13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State University Respondents: Abraham Olivier – University of Fort Hare Zinhle Mncube – University of Johannesburg Is racism parasitic on the concept of race? Or is the reverse...
Pentecostalism and Democracy in Kayamandi
A contribution to the debate about relations between religion and politics French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 9 February 2016 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Thibaut Dubarry EHESS-IMAF The point of departure for this research is a theoretical aim: analyzing the complex dialectic between religions...