Category: Elsewhere
Appel à contributions/ Call for papers
La création documentaire et cinématographique dans l’Océan Indien La revue Tsingy (Sud-Ouest océan Indien) souhaite éditer au second semestre 2021 un numéro « Cinéma et Télévision ». Cette publication portera une attention particulière à la création documentaire insulaire télévisée et/ou cinématographique de l’océan Indien, sans pour autant négliger la production de...
Odyssey ‘Round the World: Rhapsody 11
Dr. Carla Bocchtti, a researcher affiliated with IFAS-Research, organised last December an alternative reading of the Odyssey in different languages spoken in Mozambique. The project is part of Harvard University’s (Center for Hellenic Studies) project Reading Greek Tragedy Online. The video of book 11 of the Odyssey (Odysseus visits the underworld)...
Soutenance de thèse – Antonio Polo Monzo
We are pleased to announce that Antonio Polo Monzo — a former IFAS-Reserach fellow — will defend his PhD thesis in anthropology about the expression of identity of young people in Luanda on December 14th at 2 pm at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). You can...
La Fabrique de l’Histoire – Radio broadcasts
A broadcast series by the french radio show La Fabrique de l’Histoire (France Culture), dedicated to South Africa, and produced in collaboration with IFAS-Recherche L’équipe de La Fabrique de l’Histoire a rendu visite à l’IFAS-Recherche en septembre 2018 pour enregistrer une série d’émissions couvrant l’ensembre de la richesse historique de l’Afrique...
Approche photographique des complexes fermés à Johannesburg
These photos are part of Karen Lévy’s PhD research (LAVUE/Université Paris Nanterre/IFAS-Recherche): Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes ? Discours et acteurs de la fabrique urbaine. Une étude du cas de Johannesburg, un détour comparatif par New Delhi. The circulation of the urban model referred to as ‘gated communities’...
Cities, Geo-Technologies and Data-Driven Urbanism
An International Workshop at the University of Cape Town This workshop is organised in a partnership with IFAS-Research, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), IFRA Nairobi, Sorbonne Université Paris 1 Panthéon’s PRODIG and the African Centre for Cities. Monday 11 June | 8.30 to 16.45 R.W.James building,Corner University Avenue & Madiba Circle, Room...
Call for applications/Appel à candidatures INHA 2019
3-months grants for art historians from Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia Bourses de 3 mois à destination des chercheurs/euses en histoire de l’art d’Europe de l’Est, Afrique, Moyen-Orient, Inde et Asie du Sud-Est The Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris is...
Laureate Research Projects of the FMSH Atlas Mobility Program
IFAS-Research is proud to support two laureates of the 2018 Atlas Mobility Programme of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (House of Human Sciences Foundation). As part of our partnership with the FMSH, Solène Baffi and Federica Toldo have been selected for the following projects: > The revolution...
Thomas Piketty to deliver the 13th Nelson Mandela annual lecture
The Nelson Mandela Foundation is pleased to announce that French economist Thomas Piketty will deliver the 13th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on 3 October 2015. Thomas Piketty is Professor of Economics at the Paris School of Economics. He is the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the...
Print Culture and Colonisation in Africa
Colloquim 28-29 May 2015 HUMA Seminar Room, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy. The flow of technology, missionaries and merchants brought printing to African countries....