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 3 […]
Chercheur.e.s – Enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s L’IFAS-Recherche, sous la tutelle conjointe du CNRS et du MEAE (UMIFRE 25, USR 3336), a vocation à accueillir les chercheur.e.s en mobilité. Le dispositif de soutien à la mobilité internationale (SMI) de l’InSHS permet d’accompagner des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et ingénieurs de recherche des unités du CNRS en France, qui souhaitent effectuer une […]
Lesedi. Field notes #21 Lesedi, the online journal of IFAS-Recherche, celebrates its 15th anniversary with a special issue of 64 pages on prehistory and the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens, or “modern humans”, from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Southern Africa. It contains 13 articles written by senior researchers, post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D. […]
Fire and its uses, from MSA to LSA in South Africa: palaeoenvironments, fuel management, heat treatments and symbolic use of fire International workshop Organised by CEPAM, Evolutionary Studies Institute and IFAS-Recherche Event coordinator: Marion Bamford (ESI), Guillaume Porraz (ARSCAN, CNRS), Chrissie Sievers (GAES), Elysandre Puech (ESI/Wits/CEPAM) and Isabelle Théry-Parisot (CEPAM/CNRS) … Friday 13 September 2019 […]
Rock art tourism managementA South Africa-France PROTEA research programme In short Rock art tourism management requires developing a holistic approach to the vulnerability of rock art sites. The aim of this project is to build a method to integrate the environmental and social parameters of threats to rock art sites; it was therefore proposed to […]
Adrien Delmas, Paloma de la Peña (Eds.) Goodwin Series, South African Archaeological Society (in association with IFAS-Recherche and CJB), volume 12, April 2019, 94 p. The first Goodwin Series volume was established in 1972 to pay tribute to John Goodwin, the founder of the discipline of archaeology in South Africa and first editor of the […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Recherche | School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies Thursday 18 July 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Archaeology Seminar Room (Room 212) Hunter-gatherers groups ability to adapt to tropical rainforest in the Paleolithic has been, and to a certain extent, still is a matter of debate. While research intensified in inter-tropical […]
Why were depictions of animals a crucial trigger for the birth of art? And why did animals dominate that art for so long? In order to answer these questions, Renaud Ego examined some of the world’s finest rock art, that of the San of southern Africa. Visionary Animal is the English translation of L’Animal voyant, […]
Closing conference of the ANR Globafrica research project Globafrica is a research programme intitated in 2014 and funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). It aims at rethinking the global integration of Africa from a historical perspective before European Imperialism. It is hosted and run by the CNRS research unit USR 3336 which gathers […]
Les parcs nationaux dans les métropoles des pays émergents In short The ANR UNPEC project was initated in 2012 to assess in which way urban national park management methods were indicative of the level, dynamics and forms of emergence in the following cities: Cape Town, Mumbai, Nairobi and Rio de Janeiro. Thanks to a collaboration […]
