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 […]

Urban Protected Areas Network: 3rd BiodiverCities International Conference 7-9 April 2014 The Old Mutual Conference and Exhibition Centre, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town   This event proposes an opportunity for collective reflection on relationships between city and nature, through the showcase and exchange of experience and strategies for sustainable management of protected areas in changing […]

24-27 February 2014 The series of encounters co-organised by IFAS, UCT and Wits University aim at rethinking the exchanges that have been taking place between the African continent and the Indian Ocean since the 11th century. On the opposite side of the colonial myth of a continent viewed as isolated and passive in the face […]

ANR XenAfPol Closing conference 16-18 December 2013 Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT   > Programme

Overview of the Economic and Political State Friday 22 November 2013 9:00 – 13:30 Ifri Conference Room, 27 rue de la Procession, 75015 Paris     Despite a very intricate context at the end of apartheid, South Africa was successful in its transition through the iconic figure of Nelson Mandela and on the basis of […]