Questioning migrant experiences and testimonies from Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East A one-day conference gathering specialists of Sub-Saharan Africa and of the Middle-East In the study of the current refugee crisis, the UNHCR highlights two great areas of departure: the Middle East and Central Africa. Cities such as Johannesburg emerged from massive transfers of […]
Samadia Sadouni London, Palgrave Macmillan, Migration, diasporas and citizenship, 2019, 225 p. Examining the relationship between urban development and transnational experiences of religion. This book presents a socio-historical analysis of the Somali Muslim diaspora in Johannesburg and its impact on urban development in the context of Somali migrations in the Southern African Indian Ocean region […]
A joint-seminar IFAS-Research | Wits University Based on her research, Giulia Ricci (Université Paris Nanterre/AnTET) will talk about the evolution of technical traditions from the late Upper Paleolithic to the early Mesolithic period in southern Italy. Wednesday 27 March 2019 13:15 | Origins Building, Wits University, Origins lecture theatre, room 105 Giulia Ricci has raised […]
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, […]
Rock Art from Southern Africa Renaud Ego, 2019, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 326p. 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 […]
A collaboration between the Cooperation and Cultural Action Department (SCAC) of the French Embassy in South Africa, IFAS-Culture, IFAS-Research, the Rock Art Research Institute (University of the Witwatersrand), the Origins Centre (University of the Witwatersrand), and the Sci-Bono Discovery Centre.
Appel à candidatures – Contrats doctoraux avec mobilité internationale 2019 Le CNRS et l’Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (InSHS) ouvrent un appel à proposition de sujet de thèse pour l’attribution de quatre contrats doctoraux de 36 mois avec mobilité internationale, qui débuteront au 1er octobre 2019. L’appel est ouvert du 1er janvier 2019 au […]
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 […]
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 […]
