A look at the place of Zimbabwean rock art in Southern Africa Public lecture by Ancila Nhamo Katsamudanga  as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Wednesday 16 May 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Sci-Bono Speak2AScientist Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street, Newtown,Johannesburg Ancila Nhamo […]

Lascaux and Stone Age Rock Art in Europe   Public lecture by Camille Bourdier as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue   Tuesday 15 May 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Origins Centre Museum   Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road &, Enoch Sontonga Ave, Johannesburg   […]

Memory, Humour & Resilience Tuesday 10 April 2018 14:00 – 15:30 – Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape Thursday 12 April 2018 16:00 – 18:00 – College of Music, University of Cape Town Armelle Gaulier (LAM-Bordeaux) Cape Town Harmonies : Memory, Humour & Resilience proposes an analysis of two repertoires of choral songs : Nederlandslidjies and Moppies, interpreted by […]

‘Visuality’ as a source of understanding San rock art from southern African countries Public lecture by Renaud Ego Wednesday 4 April 2018 18:30 – Alliance Française of Cape Town Thursday 5 April 2018 18:00 – Origins Centre, Wits University The interpretation of San rock art has been instructed by the two fundamental categories of anthropology: […]

A Southern Africa – France Dialogue At this state of research, Southern Africa can be considered as the cradle of art and symbolism, as the earliest evidence of graphic expression have been found in South African archaeological sites, dated about 80 000 – 100 000 years ago. On the one hand, thousands of rock art sites have […]

Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Wednesday 7 March 2018 13:15 – 14:15 – Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, Wits University Matthieu Rey (IREMAM-CNRS) It is commonly accepted that the Ottoman Empire was divided up by the European powers, predominantly the French and British, at the end of the First World War. From […]

A Case Study of Madzimudzangara Rock Shelter, Ruchera and Muchinjike Caves Due to unforeseen circumstances, we had to cancel this seminar. Our apologies for the inconvenience. Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Friday 23 February 2018 13:20 – Origins Building, 2nd floor, Room 212, Wits University Happinos Marufu (SGAES / Senior Curator of Archaeology at […]

Environment Change, Urban Governance and Citadinity in Hwange Town (Zimbabwe) Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Tuesday 6 February 2018 16:00 – 17:30 – First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits University   Emilie Guitard (IFRA-Nigeria)   The town of Hwange (Zimbabwe), founded on coal mining industry, is located on the border of the […]

The Stone Age of Elands Bay Cave in Perspective Workshop 1 December 2017 09.00 – 16.00 – 17.00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Organised by Guillaume Porraz (CNRS / AnTET) & John E. Parkington (UCT) > Programme Elands Bay Cave, located on the Atlantic Coast north of Cape Town, is one of […]

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 the materiality of documentation as methodological […]