Investigating the daily dynamics of property market in Cape Town to understand patterns of social change in South Africa. French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 June 2015 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Julien Migozzi Université Grenoble 1/ Pacte/ Géographie-Cités As the emergence of South Africa unfolds multidimensional change, to […]
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 for the liberation struggle and […]
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 other aspects, has challenged the […]
Colloquim 28-29 May 2015 HUMA Seminar Room, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy. The flow of technology, missionaries and merchants brought printing to African countries. The development of print culture […]
A film by Jean Crépu Film screening (French with English subtitles) Followed by a round table with Jean Crépu, director of the film, Lazare Eloundou, head of UNESCO in Bamako & Dr. Abdelkader Maïga, director of the Ahmed Baba Institute, Timbuktu Monday 25 May | 17:45 Alliance Française of Johannesburg (17 Lower Park Drive, Parkview, […]
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 May 2008. How is xenophobia […]
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. Between subjectivity and objectivity, politics […]
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 Johannesburg nocturnal spaces was the […]
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, the French Institute of South […]
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 two centuries, the word History […]
