Category: Other Events
ICA’s 2024 Live Art Festival & Conference – 4-7 September, University of Cape Town
The Institute for Creative Arts (UCT) presents the 2024 Live Art Festival & Conference, from 4 to 7 September 2024, at UCT Hiddingh Campus in Gardens, Cape Town. Tickets for the Live Art Festival & Conference 2024 are available from R20 via Quicket. Since 2012, this annual festival proposes its...
Roundtable Academia and Communities: Experiments and Challenges in (re)Constituting, (re)Imagining and (re)Presenting Heritage in a Research Context
Date: 21 February 2024Time: 09h00 – 13h00Location: French Institute of South AfricaAddress: 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017 In conversation with the Reimagining Heritage, Archives and Museums: Today/Tomorrow convening and mentorship programme, IFAS-Research will host a roundtable. Titled Academia and Communities: Experiments and Challenges in (re)Constituting, (re)Imagining and (re)Presenting Heritage...
Workshop Reimagining contemporary Africa: Circulations of objects, knowledges & spiritual practices
This workshop will investigate contemporary transformations of practices and discourses on and in Africa in a global perspective. People and multiple social and political institutions in Africa and the African diaspora have made efforts of re-appropriating the past for the present, and the future, particularly regarding the transformation of ritual...
Vernissage de l’exposition Zimbabwe Rock Art à Origins Centre | Exhibition opening at Origins Centre: Zimbabwe Rock Art
L’IFAS-Recherche, le musée Origins Centre et le projet Matobart ont le plaisir de vous inviter à l’inauguration de l’exposition Zimbabwe Rock Art : Hidden Jewel of Southern Africa. L’exposition explore l’art rupestre du Zimbabwe, met en lumière certains des principaux sites d’art rupestre du pays, les chasseurs-collecteurs qui ont réalisé...
Exposition « Places in Me », juillet 2023 | “Places in Me” Exhibition, July 2023
L’équipe du projet COSMO-ART, SANCD, SASDO et l’Université Sol Plaatje sont fiers d’annoncer l’ouverture de l’exposition “Places in Me”, soutenue par l’IFAS-Recherche. Dans le cadre du projet de recherche COSMO-ART sur la protection et la valorisation des sites d’art rupestre en Afrique australe, l’exposition a été conçue avec des jeunes...
Exposition Homère et l’Océan Indien/ Exhibition Homer and the Indian Ocean
Carla Bocchetti, chercheuse associée à l’IFAS-Recherche, organise du 15 au 30 juin une exposition sur Homère et l’océan Indien au Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain (CCFM) à Maputo. L’exposition a ouvert ses portes avec succès la semaine dernière. Le but de cette exposition “Homère et l’océan Indien” est de décentrer le regard sur L’Odyssée – texte...
Book Launch
Wits University Press, the Wits History Workshop and IFAS-Research are organising on the 6th of May the book launch of “Cuba and Africa, 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History”, edited by A. Delmas, G. Bonacci & K. Argyriadis. To register on Zoom click here.
Live event – MUSIC FOR LIBERATION
An evening of debate and music dedicated to musical movements and countercultures in Southern Africa. > Saturday 28 March | 6pm – 2am > Keleketla! Library, Troyeville, Johannesburg In 2020, IFAS-Research will explore the various musical movements born in reaction to, or in resonance with the social and political realities...
Special event with Professor Henry Laurens from the Collège de France
The Eastern Question (19th-21st centuries): Foreign powers and local actors > Thursday 5 March | 1:30 – 3:30 pm > Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, Humanities Building, Wits University Within the framework of the agreement between the Collège de France and the University of Pretoria, IFAS Research (French Institute of South...
Photo exhibition at the AMEC centre
Home in Exile: Life in Zaatari Refugee Camp > Wednesday26 February 2020 | 6:00 – 8:00 pm > Otto Street Illovo, Sandton, 2196 In the current refugee crisis, the UNHCR has highlighted two great areas of departure: the Middle East and Central Africa. Cities such as Johannesburg emerged from massive transfers...