Exploring social and environmental challenges International Conference > Tuesday 5 November 2019 | 8:30 – 15:30 > Wednesday 6 November 2019 | 8:30 – 14:00 > IFAS-Recherche, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Conference Room (1st floor) The waste crisis is a global reality, whether in Northern or Southern countries, meanwhile societies face rising global social […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | University of Mpumalanga Seminar organised by Nicolas Verhaeghe (Mosaiques/Université Paris-Nanterre), the University of Mpumalanga, the Université Paris Nanterre and IFAS-Research > Tuesday 12 November 2019 | 10:00 – 13:00 > University of Mpumalanga, Nelspruit, Building 6 – Boarding room African rivers provide a wide range of services, resources, recreational and spiritual […]
Fire and its uses, from MSA to LSA in South Africa: palaeoenvironments, fuel management, heat treatments and symbolic use of fire International workshop Organised by CEPAM, Evolutionary Studies Institute and IFAS-Recherche Event coordinator: Marion Bamford (ESI), Guillaume Porraz (ARSCAN, CNRS), Chrissie Sievers (GAES), Elysandre Puech (ESI/Wits/CEPAM) and Isabelle Théry-Parisot (CEPAM/CNRS) … Friday 13 September 2019 […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies Thursday 18 July 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Archaeology Seminar Room (Room 212) Hunter-gatherers groups ability to adapt to tropical rainforest in the Paleolithic has been, and to a certain extent, still is a matter of debate. While research intensified in inter-tropical […]
Scientifically engaging with a buzzword International Symposium Organised by IFAS-Recherche, Laboratoire des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Sciences Po Toulouse and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Event Coordinator: Léo Fortaillier (Science Po Toulouse/LaSSP/UWC) In South Africa, one of the most (or the most) unequal country in the world, speaking of “social cohesion” […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | Wits University Jihane Sfeir will present the book co-edited with Christine Jungen : Archiving in the Middle-East. Friday 17 May 2019 12:00 | Humanities Graduate Seminar Room, Humanities Building, Wits University What is an archival document in the Middle-East? How to shape it, and how to make it effective? This book explores […]
Questioning migrant experiences and testimonies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East A one-day conference gathering specialists of Sub-Saharan Africa and of the Middle-East In the study of the current refugee crisis, the UNHCR highlights two great areas of departure: the Middle East and Central Africa. Cities such as Johannesburg emerged from massive transfers of […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Research | Wits University Based on her research, Giulia Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre/AnTET) will talk about the evolution of technical traditions from the late Upper Paleolithic to the early Mesolithic period in southern Italy. Wednesday 27 March 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Origins lecture theatre, room 105 Giulia Ricci has raised […]
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. Visionary Animal is the English translation of L’Animal voyant, […]
Closing conference of the ANR Globafrica research project Globafrica is a research programme intitated in 2014 and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It aims at rethinking the global integration of Africa from a historical perspective before European Imperialism. It is hosted and run by the CNRS research unit USR 3336 which gathers […]
