Faces of the City Seminar Series Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16h00 – 18h00 First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits East Campus Prof Serge Salat (President: Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France) Abstract: Compactness is an important attribute of the most sustainable cities. Compact cities are not only dense cities. They display […]
Workshop on the Political Economy of South Africa 13 March 2014; 8:30am – 17:00pm Wits Club The main objective of this workshop was to unpack the concurrent political, economic and social dynamics of neoliberal deepening under a democratic regime, thereby shedding light on the complex unfolding and idiosyncrasies of neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa. The […]
24-27 February 2014 The series of encounters co-organised by IFAS, UCT and Wits University aim at rethinking the exchanges that have been taking place between the African continent and the Indian Ocean since the 11th century. On the opposite side of the colonial myth of a continent viewed as isolated and passive in the face […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 4 February2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Pauline Guinard Ecole normale supérieur – Paris UMR Lavue-Laboratoire Mosaïques Based on my PhD thesis, this seminar will look at public spaces in Johannesburg through the lens of art. The issues raised by the use of the […]
ANR XenAfPol Closing conference 16-18 December 2013 Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK Seminar Room S1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick Site, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT > Programme
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 October 2013 17:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Aurore Val (Evolutionary Sciences Institute, University of the Witwatersrand) A 2 Million Year Old Forensic Case from the Cradle of Humankind: How Did the Bones of Australopithecus Sediba Got Preserved? Marina Redondo (PhD, UMR5608 TRACES, University of […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 4 December 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Silvia Kamanova PhD Candidate, Hussite Theological Faculty, Charles University, Prague Silvia Kamanova studied theology and social sciences at the Hussite Theological Faculty in Prague, in Basel (Switzerland) and in Freiburg i.B. (Germany). A preacher of the […]
Overview of the Economic and Political State Friday 22 November 2013 9:00 – 13:30 Ifri Conference Room, 27 rue de la Procession, 75015 Paris Despite a very intricate context at the end of apartheid, South Africa was successful in its transition through the iconic figure of Nelson Mandela and on the basis of […]
New Perspectives 16-19 April 2013Universities 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 encounters can act as a path […]
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 – HUMA, UCT) Dr Mauro […]
