Past interactions in Southern Africa

Programme

9h00 – accueil

9h15 – Iris Guillemard (TRACES, Pôle Afrique, SMP3C ; Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand) : Looking at interactions through lithic studies during the 1st and 2nd millenniums AD in South Africa

10h00 – Abigail J. Moffett (Postdoctoral researcher – Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, University of East Anglia) : Entangled networks of trade and interaction in South Africa, 200 – 1600 CE

10h40 – Hilde Gunnink (Postdoctoral researcher – UGent Centre for Bantu studies, Ghent University; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University) : 2000 years of Bantu-Khoisan contact in Southern Africa: linguistic traces of interactions between hunter-gatherers and food-producers

11h20 – Rachel King (Associate Professor of Cultural Heritage – Institute of Archaeology, University College London) : chairwoman du temps de discussion et d'échange