Category: Workshops & Seminars
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...
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,...