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, […]
Playlist also available on YouTube. Archaeology Rock Art History Linguistics Sociology & Anthropology Urban Studies Political Sciences
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 […]
