Category: Workshops & Seminars
Archaeology
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 May 2014 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Guillaume Porraz (CNRS / UMR 7041 ArScAn / AnTET – Anthropologie des Techniques,des Espaces et des Territoires au Pliocène et Pléistocène) Rocks and sites: les Prés de Laure in the South...
When education matters.
The unexpected impact of an education experiment in Mozambique on the country representation French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 29 April 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Michel Lafon CNRS-Llacan & IFAS Research Fellow – CentRePoL – Center for Research on the Politics of Language...
20 Years into Democracy: South Africa and the Social Sciences
15 & 16 April 2014 Wiser Seminar Room, Wits University, Johannesburg For the twentieth anniversary of democracy in South Africa, the French Institute of South Africa and the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (Wiser), are pleased to invite you to a conference to be held at Wits...
Texts in the City: Power and Discourse
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 March 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein William Kelleher Professeur certifié. Académie d’Aix-Marseille Based on my Master’s thesis, this seminar is an exploration of the place, and space, of two neighbourhoods: the Marché du Soleil neighbourhood in Marseille,...
Can art make space public in Johannesburg?
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...
Archaeology
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...
Mapping South African Black Theology from a Central European Approach
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....
Philological Encounters in the Early Modern World
Book History Seminars 20 September 2013 13:00 – HUMA Seminar Room, 4th floor, University Av. South, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town Ananya Kabir (King’s College, London) Spiritus lenis, spiritus asper:Words in the Mouth of Sir William Jones Adrien Delmas (IFAS, Johannesburg) The Codex Mendoza (Mexico) and the History...
A Turkish network in Africa: the Gülen movement
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 11 September 2013 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Gabrielle Angey-Sentuc PhD Candidate, EHESS /French Institute of Anatolian Studies This conference aims to present and analyse the expansion of a transnational network in the 21st century: the Turkish educational...
The Township Musical World in a Transnational Perspective: Sophiatown (1930-1960)
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 August 2013 11:00 – Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre Cnr Toby Street & Edward Road Sophiatown, Johannesburg Charlotte Grabli PhD Candidate, “Histoire et civilisations”, EHESS Located on the fringe of the colonial cities, the Congolese and South-African townships gave rise to the...