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Hunter-gatherers and herders in South Africa
From final to ceramic LSA in the Limpopo basin A public lecture by Iris Guillemard & Karim Sadr as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue 13.15 | Origins Building, Wits University Origins North Building, Origins Lecture Theatre, Room 105, first floor, Wits University,...
Mobilizing place-related knowledge to assert autochthony
The case of sacred sites in Hwange District (Zimbabwe) Building on her research experience, Zénaïde Dervieux will discuss the way that Hwange District ethno-linguistic groups use toponymic knowledge to assert their claims on specific territories, and she will focus on what this knowledge tells of the underlying dynamics at play between these...
Engaging on xenophobia and migration in township high schools
An IFAS-Research seminar Researchers Jeanne Bouyat (CERI, SciencesPo | CUBES, Wits University | InSHS, CNRS) and Léo Fortaillier (LaSSP, Sciences Po Toulouse | University of the Western Cape) will mobilize their research experience to discuss the place of migration and xenophobia in South African township high schools. 18 June...
“The Mind in the Cave”
The book behind explaining Lascaux A public lecture by Sam Challis as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Thursday 28 June 2018 18.00 for 18.30 | Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street, Newtown, Johannesburg The...
Cities, Geo-Technologies and Data-Driven Urbanism
An International Workshop at the University of Cape Town This workshop is organised in a partnership with IFAS-Research, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), IFRA Nairobi, Sorbonne Université Paris 1 Panthéon’s PRODIG and the African Centre for Cities. Monday 11 June | 8.30 to 16.45 R.W.James building,Corner University Avenue & Madiba Circle, Room...
Call for applications/Appel à candidatures INHA 2019
3-months grants for art historians from Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia Bourses de 3 mois à destination des chercheurs/euses en histoire de l’art d’Europe de l’Est, Afrique, Moyen-Orient, Inde et Asie du Sud-Est The Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris is...
Practices of the State in Urban Governance
An international workshop on the practices of the state in urban governance As part of Wits University — School of Architecture and Planning’s “Practices of the State in Urban Governance” project, the Centre for Urbanism and Built Environment Studies (CUBES) will host an international three-day workshop to consolidate the key findings...
100 years of rock art research in Mozambique
Challenges for the interpretation of Southern African prehistory Public lecture by Décio Muianga as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Thursday 14 June 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Sci-Bono Speak2AScientist Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street, Newtown,...
Laureate Research Projects of the FMSH Atlas Mobility Program
IFAS-Research is proud to support two laureates of the 2018 Atlas Mobility Programme of the Fondation de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (House of Human Sciences Foundation). As part of our partnership with the FMSH, Solène Baffi and Federica Toldo have been selected for the following projects: > The revolution...
Geological and Geomorphological Research at the Cradle of Humankind – Sterkfontein Caves
An IFAS-Research / University of Pretoria Seminar by Laurent Bruxelles (Inrap | CNRS) 23 May 2018 | 14:30 University of Pretoria Department of Geology, Mineral Sciences Bldg., Lombaard Hall Dr. Laurent Bruxelles is a geomorphologist and geoarchaeologist at INRAP (Institut National de Recherches Archéologiques Préventives), is associated to...