French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)28 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Caio Simões de AraújoPHD Candidate, University of Geneva Historiographies of African decolonization have been reductive in at least two ways. First, imperial perspectives reify the geographic solidity of the Empire, paying little attention to connections that go […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 18 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Anna Konieczna Researcher at Sciences Po Paris Despite constant historiographical progress, historical research works on French foreign policy in Africa in the post-colonial period, focus almost exclusively on French interactions with the former Empire, and neglect […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)30 July 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Karen LévyResearcher at the French Institute of Urbanism (IFU) and at the French Development Agency (AFD) The metropolitan structure of Johannesburg is unique and inherited from its complex history. The urban morphology of Johannesburg laid the foundations […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 June 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Mathias de Alencastro University of Oxford In this presentation, we maintain that despite the emergence of a new politico-administrative reality in Angola, after the civil war, former authorities continue to dominate power negotiations at the regional […]
29 June – 11 July 2014 Johannesburg, Mbabane, Durban, Ginsberg, Cape Town The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. Located in Johannesburg, we seek to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production. We are a centre for theoretical work that takes […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 May 2014 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Guillaume Porraz (CNRS / UMR 7041 ArScAn / AnTET – Anthropologie des Techniques,des Espaces et des Territoires au Pliocène et Pléistocène) Rocks and sites: les Prés de Laure in the South East of France. History of […]
The unexpected impact of an education experiment in Mozambique on the country representation French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 April 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Michel Lafon CNRS-Llacan & IFAS Research Fellow – CentRePoL – Center for Research on the Politics of Language – University of Pretoria
15 & 16 April 2014 Wiser Seminar Room, Wits University, Johannesburg For the twentieth anniversary of democracy in South Africa, the French Institute of South Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Wiser), are pleased to invite you to a conference to be held at Wits University on the 15th and 16th of […]
Urban Protected Areas Network: 3rd BiodiverCities International Conference 7-9 April 2014 The Old Mutual Conference and Exhibition Centre, Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, Cape Town This event proposes an opportunity for collective reflection on relationships between city and nature, through the showcase and exchange of experience and strategies for sustainable management of protected areas in changing […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 March 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein William Kelleher Professeur certifié. Académie d’Aix-Marseille Based on my Master’s thesis, this seminar is an exploration of the place, and space, of two neighbourhoods: the Marché du Soleil neighbourhood in Marseille, France, and the Bosman neighbourhood […]
