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 can act as a path […]
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 – HUMA, UCT) Dr Mauro […]
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 Reading – Backwards, Forwards and […]
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. African cities, still widely considered […]
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 of the liberation struggles in […]
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” is today a widely embraced […]
Which benefits for South Africa and Africa? 15 October 2008 South African Institute of International Affairs Jan Smuts House, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand The French Institute of South Africa, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the South African Institute of International Affairs will host a one-day conference entitled “The […]
Southern African Perspectives 17-19 June 2008 – Polokwane 20 June 2008 – Pretoria The search for forms of governance adapted to the different development aspirations and requirements of contemporary Africa raises, in almost every domain, the question of power legitimacy, between tradition and modernity, between what is local and national or regional, between administrative […]
International Colloquium 17 March 2008 – 19 March 2008 Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, Wits University Focus areas Rethinking Belonging: Community, Ethnicity and Nationality New Migrations, New Methods? Southern Africa as an Experimental Lab Who Calls the Shots? Migration Research Agenda Setting in Southern Africa Looking into the ‘Black Box’ of Migration Policy-Making […]
Islam, Democracy and Public Life in South Africa and France 3-5 September 2007 Wiser – Wits University The programme entitled ‘Muslim Cultures’ which includes a research seminar on ‘Islam, Democracy and Public Life in South Africa and France’, the projection of a film and a documentary (Samia by Philippe Faucon and The Malawian Kiss […]
