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 […]
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 […]
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 ambivalent ruins and seemingly innocuous […]
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 Institute) have worked to restore […]
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 […]
International Conference 23-24 May 2016 The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa The University of Cape Town and the French Institute of South Africa are convening an international conference on the links established between Cuba and several African countries after the 1959 revolution. Military and medical […]
International Conference 5 & 6 November 2015 French Institute of South Africa 1st floor, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein (Please note that the venue has changed to IFAS – 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein) > Conference website Contact: Caio Simões de Araújo International History Department, Graduate Institute, Geneva caio.simoes@graduateinstitute.ch
12-16 October 2015 Johannesburg The 20th anniversary of the Franco-South African cooperation in archaeology is the occasion to celebrate the diversity and the richness of this partnership of scientific excellence. A series of scientific and cultural events will take place during the week of the 12th October 2015, from the vitality of paleontology to the […]
International Symposium 3 – 4 June 2015 6th Floor Richard Ward Building, University of the Witwatersrand Recent xenophobic attacks have placed South Africa’s complicated relationship with the rest of the continent on the public agenda, both within South Africa and in other countries. While other African countries offered political support for the liberation struggle and […]
International Conference 16-17 October 2014 Protea Auditorium, School of Tourism and Hospitality, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, University of Johannesburg What does it mean to speak or think of a future for Nigeria and Nigerians beyond its centenary? In what ways, and under what predictable and feasible socio-political scenarios migh the acknowledged potentials (human and […]
