JIAS PAST EVENTS

Actuvirtual Symposium: Racialized Geo-graphies – De/Colonial Knowledge

28 April 2021 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Democracy in Times of Pandemic: A Book Discussion

5 May 2021 at 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Visual Epistemology & Tragedies of Black Beauty

11 May 2021 at 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Echoes Over Distant Regions: Celebrating Zulu Poet Mazisi Kunene @91

12 May 2021 at 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The Marked Men Webinar

13 May 2021 at 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Converting your Dissertation into a Book

18 May 2021 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Actuvirtual Symposium- Colonialism and “Restitution”

27 May 2021 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

JIAS Webinar: Artistic Encounters

15 June 2021 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Sol T. Plaatje: a life in letters Book Launch

23 June 2021 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Actuvirtual Symposium: International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Child Poverty

28 June 2021 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Sounding Place and Self Webinar

8 July 2021 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

‘Secessionist Movements and their Implications for Security in Africa: Tigray, Biafra and the Southern Cameroons’ Webinar

14 July 2021 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

A Festival of Qualitative Research Methodologies

19 July 2021 at 10:00 am - 23 July 2021 at 12:00 pm

The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy

17 August 2021 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Abusing the Wife – A Critical Re-Examination of Qur’an 4:34 and Re-interpretive Possibilities

25 August 2021 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Maasai Speak Back

2 September 2021 at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Afghanistan, Islam, and Empire: A Critical Assessment

9 September 2021 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Book Launch: Breakthrough- The Struggles and Secret Talks that Brought Apartheid South Africa To The Negotiating Table

17 September 2021 at 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Postgraduate Student Webinar: Protecting African Netizens against Digital Atrocities, War and Crime

6 October 2021 at 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Wayfarers’ Hymns and Arola by Zakes Mda

22 October 2021 at 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

BRICS and IBSA: Reflections on Recent Academic Forums

26 October 2021 at 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Concurrent operations on talk about child death: assessments as moral grounds for categorization of victims and perpetrators

28 October 2021 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Actuvirtual Symposium: African Political Thought

29 October 2021 at 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Poli Poli Book Launch

4 November 2021 at 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Actuvirtual Symposium: What does genocide/femicide teach us?

29 November 2021 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Soga Studies Conference

24 March 2022 at 1:00 pm - 26 March 2022 at 6:00 pm

Colloquium on Human Dignity

21 January 2019 at 12:00 am - 25 January 2019 at 12:00 am

JIAS Writing Fellows Seminar Series

20 February 2019 at 12:00 am

The Chaos Precinct

20 February 2019 at 12:00 am

Complementarism and Consolationism Mapping out a 21st Century African Philosophical Trajectory

27 February 2019 at 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Reading tweets, hashtags, and other ephemera in Cairo – literacy practices in new spaces of sociolinguistic freedom

6 March 2019 at 12:00 am

On rationality: An artificial intelligence (AI) perspective

12 March 2019 at 12:00 am

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The experience of Bushman communities in South Africa

13 March 2019 at 12:00 am

Migration and Society in the South: Comparing South Africa and Chile

17 March 2019 at 12:00 am

The Life and Work of Karl Mittermaier

18 March 2019 at 12:00 am

The Zulus of New York

20 March 2019 at 12:00 am

State of Dis-ease

25 March 2019 at 12:00 am - 28 March 2019 at 12:00 am

Ezekiel Mphahlele: An Incomparable Figure for all Horizons

26 March 2019 at 12:00 am

Source of Denial: A Novel of Burundi

27 March 2019 at 12:00 am

When Robots Become Unstable: The Ethiopian Boeing 737 Max Crash

9 April 2019 at 5:00 pm

The Khoikhoi – Xhosa Wars of Land Repossession in the 18th and 19th Century Cape Colony and the making of South Africa’s Working Class

10 April 2019 at 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

(Re)imagining the (extra)ordinary Chinese spaces and the urban in Southern Africa

10 April 2019 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Revisiting Nguni Formations, the Mfecane and Migrations in Southeastern Africa

16 April 2019 at 5:00 pm

Advancing Science in the Global South: The role of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

23 April 2019 at 5:00 pm

Advancing Science in the Global South: The role of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)

23 April 2019 at 5:00 pm

Narrating race and racism in contemporary South Africa

24 April 2019 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Narrating race and racism in contemporary South Africa

24 April 2019 at 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Ripples in the space-time continuum South African involvement in Gravitational Wave and Multi-Messenger astronomy

25 April 2019 at 4:00 pm

The Lifecycle of Empires

7 May 2019 at 12:00 am

Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg

14 May 2019 at 5:00 pm

Ten Years of A Man Who is Not a Man

15 May 2019 at 5:00 pm

‘Why in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are Miracle Churches Attracting so many People?’

22 May 2019 at 12:00 am

Seek Ye First the Spiritual Kingdom: Decolonising ‘decolonisation’ with Es’kia Mphahlele

28 May 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book launch: Talk of the Town

6 June 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Priorities for Land Reform in South Africa – a pragmatic approach

23 July 2019 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Mule Filmic Slave Narrative in Django Unchained: Practices of Freedom and the Myth of Vengeful Fantasy

30 July 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Migrations of Gender\the Gender of Migration: Meditations on Mobility and Movement from the Commonwealth Caribbean

20 August 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Bernard Magubane’s Critique of Anthropology in Southern Africa

22 August 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Language, Culture and Colonization | The 3rd JIAS Conference on the Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism

2 September 2019 at 12:00 am - 4 September 2019 at 12:00 am

Intelligence and Learning in the age of AI

9 September 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Launch: To Survive and Succeed

12 September 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The Eagle and the Springbok: Essays on Nigeria and South Africa

17 September 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Quo Vadis South Africa? Some useful footprints

25 September 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Information, Understanding, Transformation: The Challenges of the 4IR

3 October 2019 at 4:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Information, Understanding, Transformation: The Challenges of 4IR By Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos

3 October 2019 at 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm

SOBUKWE: The Making of the Pan Africanist Leader

8 October 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

LIVE WEBINAR: The 2019 Nobel-Inspired Lecture and Panel Discussion

11 October 2019 at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

The Meaning and Purpose of Literature in post-apartheid South Africa

11 October 2019 at 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

NDIVHUWO: Journal for Intellectual Engagement

17 October 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

BREXIT: Whither Britain? Whither Europe? Whither the world?

30 October 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

The new colonial missionaries: basic education policy and randomized trials in South Africa

5 November 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Buying Land on Credit: Networks of debt, risk and investment among black land purchasers in early 20th Century Transvaal

12 November 2019 at 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Workshop on ‘Teaching IR globally’

22 January 2018 at 12:00 am - 25 January 2018 at 12:00 am

Lecture by Prof Barbara Wilson

29 January 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar on cancer in Kenya

27 February 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar on anti-slavery activism

7 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar on scholarship and freedom

13 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar by Prof Kevin Riordan

14 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Workshop on language vitality at NTU

15 March 2018 at 12:00 am - 16 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Talk on ‘Ahmedabad: A city in the world’

19 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Workshop on ‘Illustrating the Brain’

28 March 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by David Huang

4 April 2018 at 12:00 am

John Rapley leads seminar on new book

5 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Amrita Shah

11 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Pop-up seminar on land reform

12 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Hans Pienaar

16 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Dr Melissa Tandiwe Myambo

18 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Martijn van den Heuvel

24 April 2018 at 12:00 am

UJ seminar led by Dr David Huang

25 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Book launch for two Writing Fellows

25 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Prof Gerry Maré

25 April 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Zukiswa Wanner

2 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Charlie Veric

9 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Discussion of two books by JIAS Writing Fellows

10 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Dr Chou Meng-Hsuan

16 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Niq Mhlongo

16 May 2018 at 12:00 am

NTU conference in memory of Prof Ahmed Zewail

21 May 2018 at 12:00 am - 23 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Reading of play by Hans Pienaar

22 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Inaugural Moses Kotane Memorial Lecture

31 May 2018 at 12:00 am

Conference on enslavement, conflict and forced marriage in Africa

25 June 2018 at 12:00 am - 28 June 2018 at 12:00 am

Colloquium on Multilingualism

28 June 2018 at 12:00 am - 30 June 2018 at 12:00 am

Second conference on colonialism and its implications

9 July 2018 at 12:00 am - 11 July 2018 at 12:00 am

Launch of book on water by Larry Swatuk

26 July 2018 at 12:00 am

Launch of book by Vineet Thakur

3 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Workshop on life-writing

6 August 2018 at 12:00 am

First panel discussion on work and the future

15 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Discussion of new book on Sol Plaatje

21 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Second panel discussion on work and the future

22 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Prof Steven J Diner

23 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Prof Marwala delivers distinguished lecture in Singapore

30 August 2018 at 12:00 am

Third panel discussion on work and the future

5 September 2018 at 12:00 am

Fourth panel discussion on work and the future

12 September 2018 at 12:00 am

Exhibition of cartoons by Eddie Roux

17 September 2018 at 12:00 am

Launch of book by Prof Chris Brink

19 September 2018 at 12:00 am

Lecture on Mandela as a lawyer

25 September 2018 at 12:00 am

Workshops on High Ability and Talent Development

5 October 2018 at 12:00 am - 6 October 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar led by Prof Alan Chan of NTU Singapore

9 October 2018 at 12:00 am

Spring seminar on decolonising the curriculum

2 November 2018 at 12:00 am

Seminar on ‘The relativity of Bugs Bunny’

6 November 2018 at 12:00 am

Writing across time and space: an evening with Fred and Sihle Khumalo

20 November 2018 at 12:00 am

JIAS at Science Forum South Africa

12 December 2018 at 12:00 am - 14 December 2018 at 12:00 am

South Africa after Marikana

19 January 2017 at 12:00 am - 20 January 2017 at 12:00 am

‘Almost-Times: South African Temporalities’

5 May 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar on women identities in Xhosa societies

24 May 2017

Second Brain Matters Seminar at Wits

25 May 2017

Exhibition on Johannesburg and New Delhi

1 June 2017 at 12:00 am - 7 June 2017 at 12:00 am

Revisiting the history of capitalism

10 June 2017 at 12:00 am

South Africa’s strategic role in Africa

12 July 2017 at 12:00 am - 14 July 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar by Henk van Rinsum

17 July 2017 at 12:00 am

Prof Ihron Rensburg on leadership under crisis

18 July 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar on language policy in multilingual societies

8 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar on ‘Decolonisation and Big Data analytics’

17 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Conference on expulsions

17 August 2017 at 12:00 am - 18 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Third Brain Matters seminar

18 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Workshop on opioids and harm reduction in SA

21 August 2017 at 12:00 am - 22 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Conference on ‘Prelude to Decolonisation: The Turning of the Tide’

28 August 2017 at 12:00 am - 30 August 2017 at 12:00 am

Second seminar on the challenge of ‘Big Data’

7 September 2017 at 12:00 am

Launch of book by Lesego Rampolokeng

14 September 2017 at 12:00 am

Conversation on gender and cartooning

19 October 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar by Pascal Lamy

24 October 2017 at 12:00 am

Fourth Brain Matters Seminar

26 October 2017 at 12:00 am

Seminar on ‘Big Data and Distributed Ledger’

2 November 2017 at 12:00 am

Workshop on computational history

14 November 2017 at 12:00 am - 16 November 2017 at 12:00 am

Focus on financial services and entrepreneurship in Africa

27 November 2017 at 12:00 am - 28 November 2017 at 12:00 am

Lecture by Prof Morten Kringelbach

6 December 2017 at 12:00 am