Category: Workshops & Seminars
How does a picture act ?
The power of images in San’s rock paintings from South Africa and Namibia, through examples of therianthropes and rain-animals Tuesday 5 April 2016, 18:00 Origin Center, Wits University & Thursday 7 April 2016, 20:00 South African Archaeology Society, Rodean School auditorium The analysis of San rock art largely originates...
Motivations, organization and stakes of craft sale in South Africa
A case study in Port-Elizabeth French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 06 April 2016 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Alicia Renard Université Lille I This presentation will be an opportunity to discuss my ongoing research concerning the sale of crafts by African immigrants in Port-Elizabeth....
South Africa’s military deployment in the DRC
The Privatization of a Foreign Policy French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 22 March 2016 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Robin Gastaldi Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne The basis of this research comes from a simple finding : most studies of South Africa’s foreign policy after Apartheid...
Politics and Passions: The Stakes of Democracy
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 08 March 2016 13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg Chantal Mouffe University of Westminister Respondents: Shireen Hassim – University of the Witwatersrand Peter Hudson – University of the Witwatersrand This lecture examines the limitations of liberal democratic theory in understanding...
Some Philosophical Reflections on Why the Global Fight Against Racism has Failed?
The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 16 February 2016 13:00 – 16:00 – Madibeng Building, University of Johannesburg Robert Bernasconi Pennsylvania State University Respondents: Abraham Olivier – University of Fort Hare Zinhle Mncube – University of Johannesburg Is racism parasitic on the concept of race? Or is the reverse...
Pentecostalism and Democracy in Kayamandi
A contribution to the debate about relations between religion and politics French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 9 February 2016 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Thibaut Dubarry EHESS-IMAF The point of departure for this research is a theoretical aim: analyzing the complex dialectic between religions...
Preliminary notes for an ethnography of itinerancy in Cape Town South Africa
French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 19 November 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Chloé Faux EHESS The point of departure for this project is the conundrum of geography, “not [as] a location but a situated knowledge” (Rogoff 2010). Formally, in studies of migration, the...
Forms across the Global Village. Exposures and Exhibition
For and From Makwacha (Democratic Republic of Congo) French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 05 October 2015 11:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Manon Denoun Sciences Po Bordeaux Makwacha’s case-study and the related practice of kushingula conveys key elements to understand contemporary communication stakes and informs...
Incarceration and the (re)making of race
The Coloured community in South Africa French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 08 October 2015 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Lucile Pouthier Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée University Discussant : Kelly Gillespie (Department of Anthropology/ University of the Witwatersrand) This presentation aims at showing the dynamic ties...
The resistance might be joyful
A study of Zambezia’s political identity through Carnival and Elections in Quelimane district French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 17 July 2015 10:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Mélinda Revuelta Sciences Po Bordeaux On the basis of identity as a socially and historically constructed narrative, the...