Category: Events
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia
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...
The National Union of Mineworkers in apartheid and democracy
A South African organisational trajectory French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 26 May 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Raphaël Botiveau IFAS / Science Po Aix South Africa’s mining sector has been the site of a major social and economic crisis since 2012, which, among...
Xenophobia among post-apartheid urban youth
Voices of teenagers in local schools of Yeoville, Orlando East and Alexandra French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 13 May 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jeanne Bouyat Science Po Paris South Africa is currently overwhelmed by the most violent wave of xenophobic attacks since...
Understanding and interpreting South Africa through the eyes of her photographers
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 7 May 2015 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Nathalie Jara EHESS – IMAF In order to understand contemporary South Africa, people working on representation allow envisaging the aesthetic way of photography as a space of projection and personal narration....
Maboneng, "place of light"
Night discourses as a place of symbolic violence? French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 24 March 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Chrystel Oloukoï Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne – ENS Paris “Why study the night? Nothing happens at night here”. What raised my interest for...
(Dis)belief in History
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 16 March 2015 16:30 – 18:00 – Huma Seminar Room, University of Cape Town François Hartog École des hautes études en sciences sociales Respondent: Shamil Jeppie (Institute for Humanities in Africa) Lecture series organized by the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa,...
Towards a New Historical Condition
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 12 March 2015 13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg François Hartog École des hautes études en sciences sociales Respondents: Dilip Menon (Centre for Indian Studies in Africa) Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research) During the last...
Playing the Market
Hervé Youmbi and the Totems Experiment French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 10 March 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Dominique Malaquais CEMAf-CNRS In 2010, Cameroonian artist Hervé Youmbi created “Totems to Haunt Our Dreams”, a shifting, morphable space that moves across continents and oceans...
From ǂNûkhoen to Damara
Origins, identities and political structures French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 8 December 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jonathan Benabou PHD candidate, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN-CNRS-UPD Paris 7) This seminar will present research focused on the anthropological history of the ǂNûkhoen/Damara, a...
Anthropology and History. The Lower Congo Rock Art in Perspective
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 13 November 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Geoffroy Heimlich University of Paris I Unlike rock art in the Sahara and southern Africa, rock art in central Africa is still widely unknown. Presently inhabited by the Ndibu, one of...