Hervé Youmbi and the Totems Experiment French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 10 March 2015 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Dominique Malaquais CEMAf-CNRS In 2010, Cameroonian artist Hervé Youmbi created “Totems to Haunt Our Dreams”, a shifting, morphable space that moves across continents and oceans to tell a politically charged […]

Origins, identities and political structures French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)8 December 2014 15:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Jonathan BenabouPHD candidate, National Museum of Natural History(MNHN-CNRS-UPD Paris 7) This seminar will present research focused on the anthropological history of the ǂNûkhoen/Damara, a socio-cultural group living in contemporary Namibia. This work […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)13 November 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Geoffroy HeimlichUniversity of Paris I Unlike rock art in the Sahara and southern Africa, rock art in central Africa is still widely unknown. Presently inhabited by the Ndibu, one of the Kongo sub-groups, the Lovo Massif is […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 31 October 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Michel Cahen CNRS / Sciences Po Bordeaux With the FRELIMO candidate winning the elections held on the 15th of October 2014 in Mozambique, the FRELIMO is now entering its 40th consecutive year in power. While the […]

White South Africa and the Quest for Post-Colonial Legitimacy French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)3 October 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Jamie MillerCornell University Between 1968 and 1975, apartheid South Africa defied all expectations by reaching out energetically to independent black Africa. This article in progress argues that this […]

Narratives of the Past and the (Re)construction of Museum Standards and Policies French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 23 September 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Damiana Otoiu University of Bucharest & Université de Bruxelles There is today an increase in the number of requests and claims against museums for […]

Lire, écrire et agir dans la rue 15 September – 15 October 2014 Centre Culturel Franco-Mozambicain, Maputo Exhibition showcasing the material collected during this research project.   17 September 2014 Université Pédagogique de Maputo Workshop on the “Ecrits urbains de Maputo“.  

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)28 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Caio Simões de AraújoPHD Candidate, University of Geneva Historiographies of African decolonization have been reductive in at least two ways. First, imperial perspectives reify the geographic solidity of the Empire, paying little attention to connections that go […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH) 18 August 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Anna Konieczna Researcher at Sciences Po Paris Despite constant historiographical progress, historical research works on French foreign policy in Africa in the post-colonial period, focus almost exclusively on French interactions with the former Empire, and neglect […]

French Institute Seminars in Humanities (FISH)30 July 2014 14:00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein   Karen LévyResearcher at the French Institute of Urbanism (IFU) and at the French Development Agency (AFD) The metropolitan structure of Johannesburg is unique and inherited from its complex history. The urban morphology of Johannesburg laid the foundations […]