Category: Workshops & Seminars
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...
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....
Philological Encounters in the Early Modern World
Book History Seminars 20 September 2013 13:00 – HUMA Seminar Room, 4th floor, University Av. South, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Ananya Kabir (King’s College, London) Spiritus lenis, spiritus asper:Words in the Mouth of Sir William Jones Adrien Delmas (IFAS, Johannesburg) The Codex Mendoza (Mexico) and the History...
A Turkish network in Africa: the Gülen movement
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 11 September 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Gabrielle Angey-Sentuc PhD Candidate, EHESS /French Institute of Anatolian Studies This conference aims to present and analyse the expansion of a transnational network in the 21st century: the Turkish educational...
The Township Musical World in a Transnational Perspective: Sophiatown (1930-1960)
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 August 2013 11:00 – Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre Cnr Toby Street & Edward Road Sophiatown, Johannesburg Charlotte Grabli PhD Candidate, “Histoire et civilisations”, EHESS Located on the fringe of the colonial cities, the Congolese and South-African townships gave rise to the...
Adaptatio project
Integration of adaptation to climate change within the design process of urban planning projects 26 August 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Dr. Hypatia Nassopoulos (Paris School of Engineers – EIVP) Adaptatio is a research project funded by French Ministry of Ecology. It is managed...
Re-discovering the de Gironcourt collection of West African Arabic manuscripts
Book History Seminars 14 August 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Mauro Nobili University of Cape Town During a mission in the French Soudan dated 1911-12, the ingégnieur-agronome George de Gironcourt collected a number of manuscripts written in the Arabic language. Eventually these manuscripts were...
Empire’s Companies in Southern Africa
How the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie got its Land French Institute Seminars in the Humanities (FISH) 6 August 2013 15:00 – History Department Seminar Room, University of Johannesburg Edward Cavanaugh In this presentation, Edward Cavanagh will closely analyse the early policies pertaining to land of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie...
Contextualising Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 15 May 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jonathan Benabou PhD Candidate, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle This seminar will present research work focused on the Namibian Communal conservancies, embodiment of the national Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme...