Category: Workshops & Seminars
Cape Town Harmonies
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...
The Visionary Animal | An Insight into San Rock Art
‘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...
Rock Art & Symbolic Expression
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...
Drawing a line in the sand? Another (hi)story of borders
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...
An Archaeological Investigation of LSA sites in North Eastern Zimbabwe
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...
Of Forefathers, Mining Companies and Noxious Weeds
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...
Elands Bay Day
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...
Materialities of Documentation
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...
Rural social organizing under authoritarian governance
Making spaces in Angola and Brazil Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits History Workshop Wednesday 13 September 2017 13:15 – History Workshop, Room 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe Block, East Campus, Wits University Brad Safarik (Sciences Po Bordeaux / LAM) The military coup in 1964 Brazil consolidated the political will...
3.5 million years of human evolution at the Sterkfontein Caves, Gauteng, South Africa
Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 – 13:30 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Amélie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage:...