Category: Workshops & Seminars
IFAS Workshop: Intermediaries and Governance in Africa
IFAS-Research and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research cordially invite you to join us for a workshop at IFAS. Theme: Intermediaries and Governance in Africa Date: May 14, 2024 Time: 2-5pm Venue: IFAS, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg This workshop will gather Economists, Historians and Political Scientists from...
Next seminar at IFAS: Co-working on heritage issues with local communities
The IFAS-Research team looks forward to hosting a presentation of the Cosmo-Art project and a conversation on the relationship with local communities in research projects on heritage sites, on 12 March at 2pm. The event will take place at IFAS (62 Juta Street, in Braamfontein). Register here. Co-working on heritage...
Online Seminar: Researching institutional xenophobia at school in South Africa
12 October 15:30 Jeanne Bouyat, chercheuse invitée à IFAS-Recherche et postdoc au Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) de la Faculté d’éducation de l’université de Johannesburg, présentera un séminaire en ligne sur la xénophobie institutionnelle à l’école en Afrique du Sud. Sa thèse explore la façon dont la xénophobie...
Informality in Times of Covid-19 – The Impact of the 2020 Pandemic on Vulnerable Workers in South Africa
Journée d’étude/ Seminar November 19th, 2020 13:30 – 17:00 On the 19th of November, the French Institute will organise a seminar as part of the “Informality and Covid-19 in South Africa” project launched a few months ago by IFAS-Research. The main results of this research will be presented and discussed....
The History of Urban Cultures in Southern Africa
Matthieu Rey (CNRS, IFAS-Research), Sophie Dulucq (IFAS-Research), and Noor Nieftagodien (Wits History Workshop, University the Witwatersrand) are currently preparing the co-edition of a special issue devoted to the history of urban cultures in Southern Africa (19th-20th centuries) for the Revue d’Histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique. This volume will gather papers insisting on the relationships between a specific place and stage – cities and...
Reclaiming Waste
Exploring social and environmental challenges International Conference > Tuesday 5 November | 8:30 – 15:30 > Wednesday 6 November | 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...
Sharing rivers beyond fences and boundaries
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...
Around the Fire
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)...
The “Lupemban puzzle” or the difficulty of western tropical African Middle Stone Age research
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....
Social Cohesion in South Africa
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...