Category: Conferences

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...

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...

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...

New Perspectives 16-19 April 2013Universities of the Witwatersrand & Cape Town   The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Wits University and UCT are organising a week of encounters between historians of the first globalisation in the early modern period working in different areas. It is hoped that these encounters...

Manuscript Cultures in Muslim Sub-Saharan Africa Book History Conference 5-6 September 2013 University of Cape Town   An International Conference convened by: Dr Dmitry BONDAREV (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg) Dr Andrea BRIGAGLIA (CCI; Department of Religious Studies, UCT) Prof Shamil JEPPIE (Tombouctou Manuscripts Project...

Book History Seminars 10-11 June 2013 WiSER Seminar Room 6th floor, Richard Ward Bdg, East Campus, Wits University   International colloquium on themes of global circulation and reading across empires and their afterlives.   Programme: Day 1: Monday June 10 9.00-9.15: Welcome and opening remarks 9.15-10.45 – Session 1: Distant...

13-16 September 2011Johannesburg   With a few exceptions (for example some cities on the Swahili coast, see Abungu 1998), the issue of heritage in Africa remains, in academic literature as well as among institutions in charge of the economic valorisation of heritage, very much attached to rural areas and societies....

an African dialogue 28 – 29 October 2010 Old Mess Hall, Old Fort, Constitution Hill   The issue of constitutions in Africa as the cornerstone of independent and democratic societies is not new: in the 1960s, the era of the Independences in both anglophone and francophone Africa, just like that...

Theory & Experiences from Reunion Island, the French Antilles… and South Africa? Public Conference: 5-6 May 2009 Bernard Price Building East Campus, Wits University   This two-day seminar, open to the public, discussed the concept of “creolisation” and its circulation from Reunion and the French Antilles to South Africa. “Creolisation”...