French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 13 February 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Thabo Ditsele (Student at Tshwane University of Technology – TUT) Perceptions of Black South African languages: A survey of the attitudes of Setswana-speaking university students toward their first language. Pierre Aycard (PHD Candidate – UCT) […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 January 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Elodie Escusa (Sciences-Po Bordeaux / LAM) Making One’s Way up the Social Ladder in Johannesburg, the Strategies of the Lower Middle Class and Social Trajectories. An Ethnographic Study of First-Time Home Owners in Protea Glen, Soweto. […]

13-16 September 2011Johannesburg   With a few exceptions (for example some cities on the Swahili coast, see Abungu 1998), the issue of heritage in Africa remains, in academic literature as well as among institutions in charge of the economic valorisation of heritage, very much attached to rural areas and societies. African cities, still widely considered […]

an African dialogue 28 – 29 October 2010 Old Mess Hall, Old Fort, Constitution Hill   The issue of constitutions in Africa as the cornerstone of independent and democratic societies is not new: in the 1960s, the era of the Independences in both anglophone and francophone Africa, just like that of the liberation struggles in […]

CentrPol Research Project. Second Workshop 12 March 2010 9:00 – 16:00 – Room B110, Aldoel Building, Groenkloof Campus, University of Pretoria   According to the national language policy, learners in SA ought to receive instruction in their mother-tongue during the first three years of formal compulsory schooling (Foundation Phase). However, in opposition to well-researched evidence […]

Theory & Experiences from Reunion Island, the French Antilles… and South Africa? Public Conference: 5-6 May 2009 Bernard Price Building East Campus, Wits University   This two-day seminar, open to the public, discussed the concept of “creolisation” and its circulation from Reunion and the French Antilles to South Africa. “Creolisation” is today a widely embraced […]

Which benefits for South Africa and Africa? 15 October 2008 South African Institute of International Affairs Jan Smuts House, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand   The French Institute of South Africa, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the South African Institute of International Affairs will host a one-day conference entitled “The […]

Southern African Perspectives 17-19 June 2008 – Polokwane 20 June 2008 – Pretoria   The search for forms of governance adapted to the different development aspirations and requirements of contemporary Africa raises, in almost every domain, the question of power legitimacy, between tradition and modernity, between what is local and national or regional, between administrative […]

International Colloquium 17 March 2008 – 19 March 2008 Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, Wits University   Focus areas Rethinking Belonging: Community, Ethnicity and Nationality New Migrations, New Methods? Southern Africa as an Experimental Lab Who Calls the Shots? Migration Research Agenda Setting in Southern Africa Looking into the ‘Black Box’ of Migration Policy-Making […]

Islam, Democracy and Public Life in South Africa and France 3-5 September 2007 Wiser – Wits University   The programme entitled ‘Muslim Cultures’ which includes a research seminar on ‘Islam, Democracy and Public Life in South Africa and France’, the projection of a film and a documentary (Samia by Philippe Faucon and The Malawian Kiss […]