Launching of French Institute Seminars in Humanities (29 janvier/13 février, Afrique du Sud)

FISH /French Institute Seminars in Humanities

In 2013, the French Institute of South Africa is launching monthly seminars to give IFAS researchers an opportunity to present their work in Human and Social Sciences. The FISH will relay all programmes in humanities conducted at IFAS and make them available to the research community in South Africa.

January 29
Emerging Middle Class in South Africa

The first seminar will take place on the 29^th of January 2013 at 14:00 at the IFAS conference room, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein.
Elodie Escusa (Sciences-Po Bordeaux / LAM) will present a paper called: Making One’s Way up the Social Ladder in Johannesburg, the Strategies of the Lower Middle Class and Social Trajectories. An Ethnographic Study of First-Time Home Owners in Protea Glen, Soweto.
Ivor Chipkin (Public Affairs Research Institute – PARI) will give a presentation entitled: Capitalism, City, Apartheid in the 21^st Century.

February 13
Urban Languages

The next seminar will be presented on the 13^th of February 2013 at 14:00 by Pierre Aycard (PHD Candidate – UCT) whose research focuses on the use of Iscamtho by children in White City, Soweto.