Rock art tourism managementA South Africa-France PROTEA research programme In short Rock art tourism management requires developing a holistic approach to the vulnerability of rock art sites. The aim of this project is to build a method to integrate the environmental and social parameters of threats to rock art sites; it was therefore proposed to […]
Adrien Delmas, Paloma de la Peña (Eds.) Goodwin Series, South African Archaeological Society (in association with IFAS-Recherche and CJB), volume 12, April 2019, 94 p. The first Goodwin Series volume was established in 1972 to pay tribute to John Goodwin, the founder of the discipline of archaeology in South Africa and first editor of the […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies Thursday 18 July 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Archaeology Seminar Room (Room 212) Hunter-gatherers groups ability to adapt to tropical rainforest in the Paleolithic has been, and to a certain extent, still is a matter of debate. While research intensified in inter-tropical […]
Questioning migrant experiences and testimonies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East A one-day conference gathering specialists of Sub-Saharan Africa and of the Middle-East In the study of the current refugee crisis, the UNHCR highlights two great areas of departure: the Middle East and Central Africa. Cities such as Johannesburg emerged from massive transfers of […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Research | Wits University Based on her research, Giulia Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre/AnTET) will talk about the evolution of technical traditions from the late Upper Paleolithic to the early Mesolithic period in southern Italy. Wednesday 27 March 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Origins lecture theatre, room 105 Giulia Ricci has raised […]
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. Visionary Animal is the English translation of L’Animal voyant, […]
Closing conference of the ANR Globafrica research project Globafrica is a research programme intitated in 2014 and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It aims at rethinking the global integration of Africa from a historical perspective before European Imperialism. It is hosted and run by the CNRS research unit USR 3336 which gathers […]
A collaboration between the Cooperation and Cultural Action Department (SCAC) of the French Embassy in South Africa, IFAS-Culture, IFAS-Research, the Rock Art Research Institute (University of the Witwatersrand), the Origins Centre (University of the Witwatersrand), and the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre.
Appel à candidatures – Contrats doctoraux avec mobilité internationale 2019 Le CNRS et l’Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (InSHS) ouvrent un appel à proposition de sujet de thèse pour l’attribution de quatre contrats doctoraux de 36 mois avec mobilité internationale, qui débuteront au 1er octobre 2019. L’appel est ouvert du 1er janvier 2019 au […]
Les parcs nationaux dans les métropoles des pays émergents In short The ANR UNPEC project was initated in 2012 to assess in which way urban national park management methods were indicative of the level, dynamics and forms of emergence in the following cities: Cape Town, Mumbai, Nairobi and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to a collaboration […]
