Category: Events
Materialities of Documentation
Negotiating statehood, rights and services in contemporary urban South Africa Workshop 13 November 2017 10.00 – 17.00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Organised by Jeanne Bouyat (SciencesPo Paris / SPUG) & Rodolphe Demeestère (Paris 1/ PSUG) This workshop brings together multi-disciplinary social sciences research that takes...
Rural social organizing under authoritarian governance
Making spaces in Angola and Brazil Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits History Workshop Wednesday 13 September 2017 13:15 – History Workshop, Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, East Campus, Wits University Brad Safarik (Sciences Po Bordeaux / LAM) The military coup in 1964 Brazil consolidated the political will...
3.5 million years of human evolution at the Sterkfontein Caves, Gauteng, South Africa
Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 – 13:30 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Amélie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage:...
First pastoralist societies in Southern Africa
A new program in the lacustrine basin of lakes Ngami, Mababa and Makgadikgadi in the northern Botswana Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Monday 17 July 2017 13:00 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Jessie Cauliez (CNRS / Traces, Toulouse) with Karim Sadr, Laurent...
Heritage values-based approach and sustainable management:
Lessons from the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University 29 June 2017 13:15 – Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Mélanie Duval (CNRS, EDYTEM, RARI) This communication proposes a renewal of the analysis of the vulnerabilities of rock art sites, until now...
Experimenting / Experiencing the City
The Urban Experience / South Africa & Elsewhere 11-20 May 2017 Through crossed perspectives, Experimenting / Experiencing the City will try to tackle both the risk and the interest of a multi-disciplinary approach to question the city. It aims to open the debate around the notions of “city” and “urban”...
Exploring the role of geo-technologies in urban governance and planning:
“Smart urbanism” and the politics of sustainability in Southern cities Seminar 10 May 2017 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Elisabeth Peyroux (CNRS, UMR Prodig Paris) Discussant: Jesse Harber (GCRO) & Darlington Mushongera (GCRO & Wits University) Recently, much emphasis is placed on the potential of...
Connections, Environment and the Transformations of Settlements and Networks in South-East Africa and East Africa (1000-1700)
Workshop: Globafrica: Reconnecting Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to Euorpean Imperialism 13 March 2017 09:00-16.15 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Conveners: Thomas Vernet-Habasque and Adrien Delmas 09:00 | Welcome 09:30 | Opening remarks (Adrien Delmas and Thomas Vernet-Habasque) PANEL 1 | Eastern and...
What the objects tell us
Interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century Luso-African feira of Dambarare in northern Zimbabwe French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 November 2016 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Catherine Schenck (UCT) Discussant: Alexander Antonites (University of Pretoria) The Indian Ocean Trade Network, connecting large...
The state, markets and access to medicines
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 November 2016 11:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Charlotte Pelletan (LAM) One of the modalities of access to medicines and drug regulation in South Africa consists in the paradoxical delegation of regulatory functions to non-state actors (namely, but not...