Category: Conferences
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...
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....
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...
International conference | Weaving histories from below in the Global South: Needlework, Gender, and Empowerment | 2-3 November
IFAS-Research is pleased to present its international conference Weaving histories from below in the Global South: Needlework, Gender, and Empowerment, on the 2nd and 3rd of November. This event will bring together researchers from several disciplinary backgrounds (history, art history, anthropology, sociology, economics) around the theme of women’s textile production....
Conference: News from the Past − The Stone Age in Zimbabwe
18 October 8:55 – 15:45 | Johannesburg L’IFAS-Recherche a le plaisir d’organiser le colloque News from the Past. The Stone Age in Zimbabwe. Des chercheurs et chercheuses de l’université du Zimbabwe, de l’université du Witwatersrand, de l’université de Toulouse − Jean Jaurès, de l’université du Cap et de l’université d’Algarve présenteront les...
Appel à communications/ Call for Papers
Colloque/ ConferenceWeaving Histories from Below in the Global SouthNeedlework, Gender, and Empowerment in Southern Africa Johannesburg 2-3 November 2022 IFAS-Recherche/ IFAS-ResearchEn partenariat avec le département d’histoire de l’université du Witwatersrand/ In partnership with the History Department, Wits University L’ambition de la conférence Weaving Histories from Below est d’étudier comment la...
Territories of migration: Refugees in Space and Time
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...
The Routes of Medieval Africa: 11th-17th Centuries
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...
Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins
Colloquium on the persistence of the past in the architecture and infrastructure of colonialism and apartheid Organised by the Wits History Workshop & the School of Architecture & Planning (University of the Witwatersrand) Supported by IFAS-Recherche In traversing the stubborn landscapes of colonialism and apartheid, we are confronted with the...
Listening to the Rivonia Trial
Courts, Archives and Liberation Movements A one-day international colloquium as part of the opening and study of the apartheid archives in South Africa Since 2012, the Department of Arts and Culture, the National Archives and Records Service of South Africa (NARSSA) and Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA — French National Audiovisual...