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Programme ATLAS 2021 – Séjour de recherche postdoctoral en Afrique australe
Post-doctoral mobility funding in Southern Africa – French/EU citizens La Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) et l’Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud-Recherche (IFAS-Recherche, UMIFRE 25, USR 3336) proposent à des postdoctorants ou à de jeunes chercheurs résidant en France, une aide à la mobilité pour réaliser un séjour de recherche de 2 à...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (17)
A few weeks ago, during the Southern African Cities Studies Conference 2020, a panel organised by Alexandra Halligey (South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Witwatersrand) and Kristen Kornienko (Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies, School of Architecture and Planning, University of the...
Researchers during lockdown (7)
Dr. Chaymaa Hassabo is a Research Associate at the Department of Sociology, University of Johannesburg (UJ). She is a specialist of Egypt and wrote her doctoral thesis in political science about the transformations of the Mubarak authoritarian regime during the 2002-2010 period. Dr. Hassabo came to South Africa three years ago as a...
The History of Urban Cultures in Southern Africa
Matthieu Rey (CNRS, IFAS-Research), Sophie Dulucq (IFAS-Research), and Noor Nieftagodien (Wits History Workshop, University the Witwatersrand) are currently preparing the co-edition of a special issue devoted to the history of urban cultures in Southern Africa (19th-20th centuries) for the Revue d’Histoire contemporaine de l’Afrique. This volume will gather papers insisting on the relationships between a specific place and stage – cities and...
BILL FREUND (1944-2020)
IFAS-Research was very sad to hear of the passing of Bill Freund, Prof. emeritus at UKZN, on August 17th. Bill Freund was an authoritative scholar in the field of economic history, development economics and the history of labour, and the transformation of cities in Africa. Combining rigorous thinking with an...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (16)
Encounters with Covid Exploring the theme of the pandemic through a series of podcasts and platforming experts’ and social scientists’ insights on the economic impact of Covid-19 in South Africa, this miniseries of 3 episodes is a collaborative project between Wits University Southern Center for Inequalities Studies (SCIS) and Rethinking...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (15)
African views on Covid-19. Call for papers (Deadline: July 20, 2020) African Views on Covid-19 is a title of a project book that aims to document the ways Africans have faced, or are still facing, the current health crisis, from the perspective of humanities and social sciences. This collective, multidisciplinary, bilingual...
Social scientists’ views on Covid-19 in Southern Africa (14)
A number of pandemics and epidemics have afflicted the African continent for centuries. Health historians have researched these issues belonging to the field of social and economic history. We have selected two papers focusing on the history of the plague in West Africa from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century...
Researchers during lockdown (6)
Matthieu Rey is a Senior researcher in Modern History at the CNRS (Centre national de la Recherche scientifique — the main French Research agency). He is an historian whose research themes revolve around state-building and policymaking in the Middle East and in Southern Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....
Lancement de la revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines
A New Interdisciplinary Journal: Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies La nouvelle revue interdisciplinaire Sources. Matériaux et terrains en études africaines vient de voir le jour, avec la mise en ligne de son premier numéro en open access. Fruit des efforts conjugués des Instituts français de recherche en Afrique subsaharienne (CEDEJ-Khartoum, IFRA-Nairobi, IFAS-Recherche,...