Colloquim 28-29 May 2015 HUMA Seminar Room, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town Jointly hosted by the University of Pretoria and the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Oxford Brookes University and with funding from the British Academy. The flow of technology, missionaries and merchants brought printing to African countries. The development of print culture […]

A film by Jean Crépu Film screening (French with English subtitles) Followed by a round table with Jean Crépu, director of the film, Lazare Eloundou, head of UNESCO in Bamako & Dr. Abdelkader Maïga, director of the Ahmed Baba Institute, Timbuktu Monday 25 May | 17:45 Alliance Française of Johannesburg (17 Lower Park Drive, Parkview, […]

Monday 27 October 2014 11:00  Centre for Humanity Research (CHR) Seminar Room, University of the Western Cape Robert Sobukwe Road, Belville, 7535 Pap Ndiaye Professor of History at Sciences Po Paris. Many observers of French social and political life seem to have recently discovered the existence of Black populations in metropolitan France. On an individual […]

Africa-Americans and the “darker races” in the 20th century. Thursday 16 October 2014 14:00  Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, 36 Jorissen Street, Johannesburg Pap Ndiaye Professor of history at Sciences Po Paris. By contrast with US-centered studies of the Civil rights movement, my presentation will highlight the interactions between the US […]

29 June – 11 July 2014 Johannesburg, Mbabane, Durban, Ginsberg, Cape Town  The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism is an experiment in global conversation based in the South. Located in Johannesburg, we seek to be a critical node in the re-territorializing of global intellectual production. We are a centre for theoretical work that takes […]

Faces of the City Seminar Series Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16h00 – 18h00 First Floor Seminar Room, John Moffat Building, Wits East Campus Prof Serge Salat (President: Urban Morphology and Complex Systems Institute, Paris, France) Abstract: Compactness is an important attribute of the most sustainable cities. Compact cities are not only dense cities. They display […]

Workshop on the Political Economy of South Africa 13 March 2014; 8:30am – 17:00pm Wits Club The main objective of this workshop was to unpack the concurrent political, economic and social dynamics of neoliberal deepening under a democratic regime, thereby shedding light on the complex unfolding and idiosyncrasies of neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa. The […]

Transcontinentales – sociétés, idéologies, système mondial, Dossier “Afrique plurielle”, n°2, 2006, Paris, Armand Colin. Ce deuxième numéro de Transcontinentales, nouvelle revue des instituts français à l’étranger, consacre son dossier à l’Afrique. Une Afrique qu’on connaît surtout par ses désastres, ses tueries et ses massacres ; une Afrique des crises de l’État, des échecs de la […]

Trialog n°89, “Controlling Urban Space – The Rise of New Actors”, 89(2), 2006, Dortmund. Ce numéro de Trialog porte sur la reconfiguration et la remesure du contrôle de l’espace urbain, par l’examen de l’importance politique et des implications socio-spatiales de la diversificiation des parties intéressées aux intérêts différents et parfois concurrentiels. L’attention ne porte pas […]

Africultures n°66, 2006, “Afrique mondialisée mais pas dupe”, special issue coordinated by Jérôme Bessière (Dibuka) and Aurelia We Kabwe-Segatti (French Institute of South Africa), L’Harmattan. Publié avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de France en Afrique du Sud, de l’Institut Français d’Afrique du Sud et de Dibuka-Centre d’Information sur la France Contemporaine. L’Afrique serait-elle la victime […]