Category: Events
Africa and Global History
New Perspectives 16-19 April 2013 Universities 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...
The Arts and Crafts of Literacy
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...
Textual Commodities in Empire
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...
Philological Encounters in the Early Modern World
Book History Seminars 20 September 2013 13:00 – HUMA Seminar Room, 4th floor, University Av. South, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Ananya Kabir (King’s College, London) Spiritus lenis, spiritus asper:Words in the Mouth of Sir William Jones Adrien Delmas (IFAS, Johannesburg) The Codex Mendoza (Mexico) and the History...
A Turkish network in Africa: the Gülen movement
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 11 September 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Gabrielle Angey-Sentuc PhD Candidate, EHESS /French Institute of Anatolian Studies This conference aims to present and analyse the expansion of a transnational network in the 21st century: the Turkish educational...
The Township Musical World in a Transnational Perspective: Sophiatown (1930-1960)
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 August 2013 11:00 – Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre Cnr Toby Street & Edward Road Sophiatown, Johannesburg Charlotte Grabli PhD Candidate, “Histoire et civilisations”, EHESS Located on the fringe of the colonial cities, the Congolese and South-African townships gave rise to the...
Adaptatio project
Integration of adaptation to climate change within the design process of urban planning projects 26 August 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Dr. Hypatia Nassopoulos (Paris School of Engineers – EIVP) Adaptatio is a research project funded by French Ministry of Ecology. It is managed...
Re-discovering the de Gironcourt collection of West African Arabic manuscripts
Book History Seminars 14 August 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Mauro Nobili University of Cape Town During a mission in the French Soudan dated 1911-12, the ingégnieur-agronome George de Gironcourt collected a number of manuscripts written in the Arabic language. Eventually these manuscripts were...
Empire’s Companies in Southern Africa
How the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie got its Land French Institute Seminars in the Humanities (FISH) 6 August 2013 15:00 – History Department Seminar Room, University of Johannesburg Edward Cavanaugh In this presentation, Edward Cavanagh will closely analyse the early policies pertaining to land of the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie...
Contextualising Community Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) in Namibia
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 15 May 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jonathan Benabou PhD Candidate, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle This seminar will present research work focused on the Namibian Communal conservancies, embodiment of the national Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme...