French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 June 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Mathias de Alencastro University of Oxford In this presentation, we maintain that despite the emergence of a new politico-administrative reality in Angola, after the civil war, former authorities continue to dominate power negotiations at the regional […]

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 East of France. History of […]

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 – University of Pretoria  

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 University on the 15th and 16th of […]

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, France, and the Bosman neighbourhood […]

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 by the use of the […]

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 (PhD, UMR5608 TRACES, University of […]

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. (Germany). A preacher of the […]

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 of Writing from the 16th […]

   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 network of Fethullah Gülen. The […]