Negotiating statehood, rights and services in contemporary urban South Africa Workshop 13 November 2017 10.00 – 17.00 – IFAS Conference Room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein Organised by Jeanne Bouyat (SciencesPo Paris / SPUG) & Rodolphe Demeestère (Paris 1/ PSUG) This workshop brings together multi-disciplinary social sciences research that takes the materiality of documentation as methodological […]

Contribution of zooarchaeology to the understanding of Human subsistence strategies Joint seminar IFAS-Research / Wits UniversityTuesday 7 November 2017 – 13:15Cate Druce Lecture Hall, ESI, Wits University   Léa Feyfant (TRACES / ESI) Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo Province, South Africa) contains rich Later and Middle Stone Age deposits. LSA occupations at Bushman Rock Shelter (BRS) […]

Policy Workshop / GovInn Week / Pretoria 30 November 2017 – 09:00-16:00International Convention Centre, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria This workshop presents the findings from the CODESRIA‐funded research project “Justice duringtransitions”, in which fieldwork was undertaken in five countries, Burundi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. Based on this fieldwork, the workshop […]

Joint seminar IFAS-Research, the Evolutionnary Studies Institute and the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies of Wits University Thursday 24 August 2017 09:30 – 13:30 – Archaeology Lecture Theatre, Origins North Bdg. Lecture Room (1st fl), Wits University Amélie Beaudet | Paleoanthropology | SGAES, Wits The Sterkfontein hominin assemblage: how the world’s richest Australopithecus-bearing […]

The Urban Experience / South Africa & Elsewhere 11-20 May 2017 Through crossed perspectives, Experimenting / Experiencing the City will try to tackle both the risk and the interest of a multi-disciplinary approach to question the city. It aims to open the debate around the notions of “city” and “urban” in the complex relationship that […]

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, […]

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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 […]