Contribution of zooarchaeology to the understanding of Human subsistence strategies Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits UniversityTuesday 7 November 2017 – 13:15Cate Druce Lecture Hall, ESI, Wits University Léa Feyfant (TRACES / ESI) Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo Province, South Africa) contains rich Later and Middle Stone Age deposits. LSA occupations at Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS) […]
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 of securing the inland territories, […]
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: how the world’s richest Australopithecus-bearing […]
A new program in the lacustrine basin of lakes Ngami, Mababa and Makgadikgadi in the northern Botswana Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University Monday 17 July 2017 13:00 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Jessie Cauliez (CNRS / Traces, Toulouse) with Karim Sadr, Laurent Bruxelles, Benjamin Lans. In […]
Lessons from the Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, South Africa Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits University 29 June 2017 13:15 – Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl) Mélanie Duval (CNRS, EDYTEM, RARI) This communication proposes a renewal of the analysis of the vulnerabilities of rock art sites, until now essentially focused on visual entries […]
“Smart urbanism” and the politics of sustainability in Southern cities Seminar 10 May 2017 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Elisabeth Peyroux (CNRS, UMR Prodig Paris) Discussant: Jesse Harber (GCRO) & Darlington Mushongera (GCRO & Wits University) Recently, much emphasis is placed on the potential of geo-technologies, e.g. through Smart City […]
Workshop: Globafrica: Reconnecting Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to Euorpean Imperialism 13 March 2017 09:00-16.15 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Conveners: Thomas Vernet-Habasque and Adrien Delmas 09:00 | Welcome 09:30 | Opening remarks (Adrien Delmas and Thomas Vernet-Habasque) PANEL 1 | Eastern and Southern African Connectedness Chair: Thomas […]
Interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century Luso-African feira of Dambarare in northern Zimbabwe French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 28 November 2016 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Catherine Schenck (UCT) Discussant: Alexander Antonites (University of Pretoria) The Indian Ocean Trade Network, connecting large parts of Africa, the Middle […]
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 November 2016 11:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Charlotte Pelletan (LAM) One of the modalities of access to medicines and drug regulation in South Africa consists in the paradoxical delegation of regulatory functions to non-state actors (namely, but not only, industry). Drug policies in […]
The Chimurenga archive of Pan-African festivals French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 15 November 2016 11:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Alice Aterianus-Owanga (FMSH/IFAS/LAHIC) Discussant: Chris Saunders (UCT) This presentation deals with the collection, production and creation of an archive that has been developed since several years by Chimurenga, a multidimensional […]
