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 to tell a politically charged […]

Origins, identities and political structures French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)8 December 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Jonathan BenabouPHD 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 socio-cultural group living in contemporary Namibia. This work […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)13 November 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Geoffroy HeimlichUniversity 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 the Kongo sub-groups, the Lovo Massif is […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 31 October 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Michel Cahen CNRS / Sciences Po Bordeaux With the FRELIMO candidate winning the elections held on the 15th of October 2014 in Mozambique, the FRELIMO is now entering its 40th consecutive year in power. While the […]

Monday 27 October 2014 11:00  Centre for Humanity Research (CHR) Seminar Room, University of the Western Cape Robert Sobukwe Road, Belville, 7535 Pap Ndiaye Professor of History at Sciences Po Paris. Many observers of French social and political life seem to have recently discovered the existence of Black populations in metropolitan France. On an individual […]

Africa-Americans and the “darker races” in the 20th century. Thursday 16 October 2014 14:00  Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, 36 Jorissen Street, Johannesburg Pap Ndiaye Professor of history at Sciences Po Paris. By contrast with US-centered studies of the Civil rights movement, my presentation will highlight the interactions between the US […]

International Conference 16-17 October 2014 Protea Auditorium, School of Tourism and Hospitality, Auckland Park Bunting Road Campus, University of Johannesburg What does it mean to speak or think of a future for Nigeria and Nigerians beyond its centenary? In what ways, and under what predictable and feasible socio-political scenarios migh the acknowledged potentials (human and […]

White South Africa and the Quest for Post-Colonial Legitimacy French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)3 October 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Jamie MillerCornell University Between 1968 and 1975, apartheid South Africa defied all expectations by reaching out energetically to independent black Africa. This article in progress argues that this […]

Narratives of the Past and the (Re)construction of Museum Standards and Policies French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 23 September 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Damiana Otoiu University of Bucharest & Université de Bruxelles There is today an increase in the number of requests and claims against museums for […]

Lire, écrire et agir dans la rue 15 September – 15 October 2014 Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, Maputo Exhibition showcasing the material collected during this research project.   17 September 2014 Université Pédagogique de Maputo Workshop on the “Ecrits urbains de Maputo“.