Category: Events
IFAS Workshop: Intermediaries and Governance in Africa
IFAS-Research and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research cordially invite you to join us for a workshop at IFAS. Theme: Intermediaries and Governance in Africa Date: May 14, 2024 Time: 2-5pm Venue: IFAS, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg This workshop will gather Economists, Historians and Political Scientists from...
Conference: Apartheid as Method for Worldmaking after the Empire
IFAS-Research, Wits Humanities Graduate Centre and the Critical Apartheid Studies Group cordially invite you to join us for a conference at Wits University. Theme: Apartheid as Method for Worldmaking after the Empire Date: April 24-26, 2024 Venue: Humanities Graduate Centre, South West Engineering Building, Braamfontein Campus East, Wits University The...
Next seminar at IFAS: Co-working on heritage issues with local communities
The IFAS-Research team looks forward to hosting a presentation of the Cosmo-Art project and a conversation on the relationship with local communities in research projects on heritage sites, on 12 March at 2pm. The event will take place at IFAS (62 Juta Street, in Braamfontein). Register here. Co-working on heritage...
Roundtable Academia and Communities: Experiments and Challenges in (re)Constituting, (re)Imagining and (re)Presenting Heritage in a Research Context
Date: 21 February 2024Time: 09h00 – 13h00Location: French Institute of South AfricaAddress: 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017 In conversation with the Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow convening and mentorship programme, IFAS-Research will host a roundtable. Titled Academia and Communities: Experiments and Challenges in (re)Constituting, (re)Imagining and (re)Presenting Heritage...
Workshop Reimagining contemporary Africa: Circulations of objects, knowledges & spiritual practices
This workshop will investigate contemporary transformations of practices and discourses on and in Africa in a global perspective. People and multiple social and political institutions in Africa and the African diaspora have made efforts of re-appropriating the past for the present, and the future, particularly regarding the transformation of ritual...
Colloque international BrAIn Evolution, 22-23 novembre | International Conference BrAIn Evolution, November 22-23
🧠 Colloque International BrAIn Evolution: Palaeosciences, Neuroscience & Artificial Intelligence 🌐 📅 Dates : 22 et 23 novembre 📍 Lieu : IFAS, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein L’IFAS-Recherche, en collaboration avec les chercheuses Amélie Beaudet et Caroline Fonta du projet EndoMap, organise un Colloque International BrAIn Evolution. Cette conférence mettra en...
Vernissage de l’exposition Zimbabwe Rock Art à Origins Centre | Exhibition opening at Origins Centre: Zimbabwe Rock Art
L’IFAS-Recherche, le musée Origins Centre et le projet Matobart ont le plaisir de vous inviter à l’inauguration de l’exposition Zimbabwe Rock Art : Hidden Jewel of Southern Africa. L’exposition explore l’art rupestre du Zimbabwe, met en lumière certains des principaux sites d’art rupestre du pays, les chasseurs-collecteurs qui ont réalisé...
Joint Talk & Book Launch at the Westridge Library, Mitchell’s Plain, 22 August
Where does history lie?From Remembering D6 to Writing a History of Mitchell’s Plain. Ludmila Ommundsen Pessoa and Yazeed Kamaldien will present their complementary latest works and exchange views with the audience in this joint talk at the Westridge Library, Simonsig Avenue, Cape Town, on Tuesday, 22 August at 10:30 am....
Exposition « Places in Me », juillet 2023 | “Places in Me” Exhibition, July 2023
L’équipe du projet COSMO-ART, SANCD, SASDO et l’Université Sol Plaatje sont fiers d’annoncer l’ouverture de l’exposition “Places in Me”, soutenue par l’IFAS-Recherche. Dans le cadre du projet de recherche COSMO-ART sur la protection et la valorisation des sites d’art rupestre en Afrique australe, l’exposition a été conçue avec des jeunes...
Transitions in south-east Africa and the Middle East at the end of the 18th century | 30 January – 2 February 2023
What was NEW? Frictions forces of the contemporaneity Southern Africa and the Middle East. NEW (International Emerging Action) IFAS-Research, IFPO (Institut Français du Proche-Orient) and Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative (University of Cape Town) are pleased to organise a conference on transitions in south-east Africa and the Middle East...