Making spaces in Angola and Brazil Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits History Workshop Wednesday 13 September 2017 13:15 – History Workshop, Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, East Campus, Wits University Brad Safarik (Sciences Po Bordeaux / LAM) The military coup in 1964 Brazil consolidated the political will of securing the inland territories, […]
Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 – 13:30 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Amélie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage: how the world’s richest Australopithecus-bearing […]
A new program in the lacustrine basin of lakes Ngami, Mababa and Makgadikgadi in the northern Botswana Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Monday 17 July 2017 13:00 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Jessie Cauliez (CNRS / Traces, Toulouse) with Karim Sadr, Laurent Bruxelles, Benjamin Lans. In […]
Lessons from the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University 29 June 2017 13:15 – Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Mélanie Duval (CNRS, EDYTEM, RARI) This communication proposes a renewal of the analysis of the vulnerabilities of rock art sites, until now essentially focused on visual entries […]
The Urban Experience / South Africa & Elsewhere 11-20 May 2017 Through crossed perspectives, Experimenting / Experiencing the City will try to tackle both the risk and the interest of a multi-disciplinary approach to question the city. It aims to open the debate around the notions of “city” and “urban” in the complex relationship that […]
“Smart urbanism” and the politics of sustainability in Southern cities Seminar 10 May 2017 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Elisabeth Peyroux (CNRS, UMR Prodig Paris) Discussant: Jesse Harber (GCRO) & Darlington Mushongera (GCRO & Wits University) Recently, much emphasis is placed on the potential of geo-technologies, e.g. through Smart City […]
Playlist also available on YouTube. Archaeology Rock Art History Linguistics Sociology & Anthropology Urban Studies Political Sciences
Music, Identity and Politics in South Africa Denis-Constant MARTIN, 2013, Stellenbosch, African MindsISBN : 9781920489823Download a digital copy here. For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town […]
Culture écrite et expansion européenne à l’époque moderne : essais sur la Compagnie Hollandaise des Indes Orientales Adrien DELMAS, 2013, Paris, Honoré ChampionISBN : 9782745323101Collection : Atelier des Voyages Plus à son aise, jusqu’à présent, dans le cadre national que dans le roulis marin de l’histoire globale, l’histoire du livre a négligé l’un des acteurs […]
International seminar on themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives, co-hosted by the University of Pretoria and Oxford Brookes University, and supported by the British Academy’s International Partnership and Mobility Scheme. Playlist also available on YouTube
