Category: Workshops & Seminars
The Restitution of Cultural Assets and Human Remains from Ethnographic Museums
Narratives of the Past and the (Re)construction of Museum Standards and Policies French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 23 September 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Damiana Otoiu University of Bucharest & Université de Bruxelles There is today an increase in the number of requests...
Les écritures urbaines de Maputo
Lire, écrire et agir dans la rue 15 September – 15 October 2014 Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, Maputo Exhibition showcasing the material collected during this research project. 17 September 2014 Université Pédagogique de Maputo Workshop on the “Ecrits urbains de Maputo“.
Salazar’s Ghosts: global colour lines, decolonizations and entangled histories of race, ca. 1960-1965
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Caio Simões de Araújo PHD Candidate, University of Geneva Historiographies of African decolonization have been reductive in at least two ways. First, imperial perspectives reify the geographic solidity of the Empire,...
Historical Outlook on French-South African Relations (1958-1974)
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 18 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Anna Konieczna Researcher at Sciences Po Paris Despite constant historiographical progress, historical research works on French foreign policy in Africa in the post-colonial period, focus almost exclusively on French interactions with...
Understanding Johannesburg: City-Wide Urban Analysis and Morphological Evolution
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 30 July 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Karen Lévy Researcher at the French Institute of Urbanism (IFU) and at the French Development Agency (AFD) The metropolitan structure of Johannesburg is unique and inherited from its complex history. The...
State Building and Mining Sector in Angola and Mozambique
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 June 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Mathias de Alencastro University of Oxford In this presentation, we maintain that despite the emergence of a new politico-administrative reality in Angola, after the civil war, former authorities continue to dominate...
Archaeology
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 May 2014 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Guillaume Porraz (CNRS / UMR 7041 ArScAn / AnTET – Anthropologie des Techniques,des Espaces et des Territoires au Pliocène et Pléistocène) Rocks and sites: les Prés de Laure in the South...
When education matters.
The unexpected impact of an education experiment in Mozambique on the country representation French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 April 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Michel Lafon CNRS-Llacan & IFAS Research Fellow – CentRePoL – Center for Research on the Politics of Language...
20 Years into Democracy: South Africa and the Social Sciences
15 & 16 April 2014 Wiser Seminar Room, Wits University, Johannesburg For the twentieth anniversary of democracy in South Africa, the French Institute of South Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Wiser), are pleased to invite you to a conference to be held at Wits...
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,...