Siyanda Kobokana, a PhD student in history at the University of the Western Cape, has been in residence at the Fondation Fiminco and EUR ArTeC, in Greater Paris, from October 20 to December 20, 2025, as part of our creative research residency program, a partnership between IFAS-Research, EUR ArTeC and Fondation Fiminco. During the residency, […]
In short The ANR XenAfPol, “Politics of xenophobic exclusion in Africa: mobilisations, local orders and violence”, is a three-year research programme funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) that ran between 2011 and 2013. This research programme looks at the politics of xenophobic mobilisation across the continent. This comparative project runs across four countries: […]
An archaeological fieldwork project In short The Human Origins in Mozambique and Malawi Environments mission is funded by the CNRS as part of the 80-Prime Transversal and Interdisciplinary Initiatives project. In addition to UMR TRACES researchers, it benefits from a solid network of interdisciplinary collaborations involving geologists, geomorphologists, paleontologists, archaeologists, geophysicists, geochemists and geomaticians. This project, built on ongoing work in South Africa […]
On April 3rd 2019, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the discovery of Australopithecus fossil Little Foot at the Résidence de France in Pretoria. Publications about the discovery of Little Foot: A selection of publications about Little Foot and the Sterkfontein Caves: ” Sterkfontein member 2 foot bones of the oldest South African hominid” (1995) “First […]
[English version below] Le programme « Sounds of Southern Africa. Music, Empowerment, Freedom », développé par l’IFAS-Recherche et les départements Culture et Audiovisuel de l’IFAS avec le soutien de l’Institut français Paris, avait été programmé pour 2020, puis repoussé à 2021-2022 en raison de la crise sanitaire. Il s’agissait d’explorer les liens entre musique, politique, liberté d’expression et […]
[English version below] Reclaiming Waste est un cycle d’événements universitaires et culturels, coordonné par l’IFAS-Recherche et le département Culture de l’IFAS, en collaboration avec leurs partenaires locaux et le soutien de l’Institut Français de Paris (IF Paris). Vous pouvez explorer le site internet du projet pour en savoir plus. Reclaiming Waste is a cycle of academic, […]
Community-oriented research and teaching initiative Yeoville Studio was a research and learning initiative driven by a collaboration between the Wits School of Architecture and Planning and several community partners in Yeoville, Johannesburg. It ran from 2010 to 2012 and aimed to produce research that of relevance, use and interest to the Yeoville community. As a […]
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 […]
Sub-Saharan Africa and the World prior to European Imperialism In short Globafrica is a four-year research programme funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR) that aims to rethink the global integration of Africa before the European Imperialism from a historical perspective. Who? Hosted and run by the CNRS research unit USR 3336 which gathers […]
