The Steve Biko Lectures in Philosophy 19 July 2016 13:00 – 18:00 – Kerzner Building, Bantung Road Campus, University of Johannesburg Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University Respondents: Achille Mbembe – Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research Richard Pithouse – Rhodes University Srila Roy – University of the Witwatersrand
Officials’ practices towards African Immigration in high schools of Johannesburg and police stations of Cape Town CUBES and FISH Seminar 21 June 2016 16:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Jeanne Bouyat Ceri / Sciences Po Paris Rodolphe Demeestère CESSP / Paris 1 La Sorbonne Discussant: Aurelia Segatti Honorary Researcher ACMS / […]
How the Dream of African Development shaped a Continental Cold War (1945-1966) French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 01 June 2016 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Frank Gerits NRF / University of the Free State How could Africa in the mid-1960s become a Cold War battle ground where proxy wars […]
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 in cultural anthropology founded on […]
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. It seeks to highlight the […]
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 focus on the nation’s relation […]
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 the nature of the political […]
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 true? Is the concept of […]
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 and politics. That’s why we […]
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 pathways followed are privileged over […]
