Category: Other Events
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...
Book launch – Visionary Animal. Rock Art from Southern Africa
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. Visionary Animal is the...
Middle Class Life : the Repetition of the Model in the Townhouse Complexes
Middle Class Life : the Repetition of the Model in the Townhouse Complexes An exhibition by South African and international photographers Nocebo Bucibo | Lisa King | Melissa Bennet | Mack Magagane | Michelle Monareng | Shogan Naidoo | Musa Nxumalo | Natalie Payne | Paul Samuels | Bianca van...
Ph.D. defense/Soutenance de thèse – Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes
Une ville moyenne pour des classes moyennes ? Discours et acteurs de la fabrique urbaine. Une étude du cas de Johannesburg, un détour comparatif par New Delhi. Karen Lévy (Université Paris Nanterre). Sous la direction de Philippe Gervais-Lambony (Université Paris Nanterre / UMR LAVUE). La soutenance aura lieu le 19...
100 Years of Memory
South Africa and WWI In July 2016, South Africa will commemorate the Centenary of the WWI Battle of Delville Wood, when 3 200 troops of the South African Infantry Brigade arrived on the battlefield of Delville Wood in the department of La Somme (France). This battle became one of...