Category: News
Soutenance de thèse – Brad Safarik
We are pleased to announce that Brad Safarik — a former IFAS-Research fellow — defends his PhD thesis on December 4th at Sciences Po Bordeaux. The thesis, entitled “Strategic Abandon: Angolan peasantry under MPLA domination”, focuses on rural development in Angola since its independence. English ABSTRACT Angola’s colonial past has...
Lesedi #23 – November 2020
Lesedi. Field notes #23 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Research, is launching a new special issue of 80 pages focusing on rock art in southern Africa (“The Rock Art of the Hunter-Gatherers”). It contains 14 articles written by senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and PhD students, presenting ongoing research, new fieldworks and collaborative...
Documentary film: “What am I going to eat tomorrow?” The impact of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in Johannesburg
As part of its scientific and academic vocation, and in the context of the health crisis linked to the coronavirus, IFAS-Research has launched a collective research project with the aim of understanding the effects of the 2020 pandemic on informal workers in South Africa. To this end, in June 2020,...
Informality in Times of Covid-19 – The Impact of the 2020 Pandemic on Vulnerable Workers in South Africa
Journée d’étude/ Seminar November 19th, 2020 13:30 – 17:00 On the 19th of November, the French Institute will organise a seminar as part of the “Informality and Covid-19 in South Africa” project launched a few months ago by IFAS-Research. The main results of this research will be presented and discussed....
Lesedi #22 – November 2020
Lesedi. Field notes #22 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Research, is launching a new special issue of a 100 pages on the actors of freshwater management in Southern Africa (Lesedi #22: Water actors in Southern Africa. Field surveys, interdisciplinarity and social issues). It contains 10 articles written by senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D....
Prix de Thèse « Afrique et ses diasporas »/ « Africa and its Diasporas » PhD Prize
Nous avons appris avec plaisir que Charlotte Grabli — allocataire de l’IFAS-Recherche en 2013 alors qu’elle était au tout début de sa recherche doctorale — venait de remporter le Prix de Thèse « Afrique et ses diasporas », décerné conjointement par la Société des Africanistes et par le GIS « Études...
Aides à la mobilité internationale 2021
Doctorant·e·s – Postdoctorant·e·s· Quelques bourses d’aide à la mobilité internationale pour des recherches doctorales ou postdoctorales seront attribuées par l’IFAS-Recherche en 2021. Les aides seront versées pour une durée de 2 à 4 mois (maximum), non renouvelable. Les candidat·e·s retenu·e·s recevront l’appui scientifique et logistique de l’IFAS-Recherche et participeront à l’animation...
Call for Applications / Appel à projets 2021
Étudiant·e·s Master· 2 – Doctorant·e·s – Post-doctorant·e·s – Chercheurs et chercheuses Dans le cadre de sa programmation scientifique, l’IFAS-Recherche finance chaque année un certain nombre de projets de recherche, soit individuels, soit collectifs (missions de terrain, enquêtes, séjours en centres d’archives et en bibliothèque, organisation de manifestations scientifiques.) Aucune condition...
Programme ATLAS 2021 – Séjour de recherche postdoctoral en Afrique australe
Post-doctoral mobility funding in Southern Africa – French/EU citizens La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) et l’Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud-Recherche (IFAS-Recherche, UMIFRE 25, USR 3336) proposent à des postdoctorants ou à de jeunes chercheurs résidant en France, une aide à la mobilité pour réaliser un séjour de recherche de 2 à...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (17)
A few weeks ago, during the Southern African Cities Studies Conference 2020, a panel organised by Alexandra Halligey (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand) and Kristen Kornienko (Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the...