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 of the programme. 6-8 […]
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, Johannesburg Décio José Dias […]
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 of ICT in the transport sector […]
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 the School of Geography, Archaeology […]
Public lecture by David Lewis-Williams as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Wednesday 23 May 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Origins Centre Museum Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road &, Enoch Sontonga Ave, Johannesburg Professor Emeritus David Lewis-Williams focused his research efforts on the […]
A look at the place of Zimbabwean rock art in Southern Africa Public lecture by Ancila Nhamo Katsamudanga as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Wednesday 16 May 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Sci-Bono Speak2AScientist Sci-Bono Discovery Centre Auditorium, Miriam Makeba St & Helen Joseph Street, Newtown,Johannesburg Ancila Nhamo […]
Lascaux and Stone Age Rock Art in Europe Public lecture by Camille Bourdier as part of the Public Lecture Series Rock Art & Symbolic Expression. A Southern Africa – France Dialogue Tuesday 15 May 2018 18:00 for 18:30 | Origins Centre Museum Wits University, West Campus, Corner of Yale Road &, Enoch Sontonga Ave, Johannesburg […]
Memory, Humour & Resilience Tuesday 10 April 2018 14:00 – 15:30 – Centre for Humanities Research, University of Western Cape Thursday 12 April 2018 16:00 – 18:00 – College of Music, University of Cape Town Armelle Gaulier (LAM-Bordeaux) Cape Town Harmonies : Memory, Humour & Resilience proposes an analysis of two repertoires of choral songs : Nederlandslidjies and Moppies, interpreted by […]
‘Visuality’ as a source of understanding San rock art from southern African countries Public lecture by Renaud Ego Wednesday 4 April 2018 18:30 – Alliance Française of Cape Town Thursday 5 April 2018 18:00 – Origins Centre, Wits University The interpretation of San rock art has been instructed by the two fundamental categories of anthropology: […]
A Southern Africa – France Dialogue At this state of research, Southern Africa can be considered as the cradle of art and symbolism, as the earliest evidence of graphic expression have been found in South African archaeological sites, dated about 80 000 – 100 000 years ago. On the one hand, thousands of rock art sites have […]
