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Wits History Workshop The History Workshop is a social history research group founded in 1977 at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

The History Workshop represents over 40 years of primarily community-driven South African social history. Its work attempts both to facilitate histories of people and communities largely left out of broader South African history, and to ensure that the histories and materials generated in this are accessible to the people whose lives and spaces they are about.

19/10/2026

The October Forum 2026 - The 70s and Us

28 October (5:30pm for 6pm until 8pm)

Keynote conversation: David Scott (University of Columbia) and Michael Hardt (Duke University), facilitated by Noor Nieftagodien (History Workshop, Wits).

29 October (9am – 5pm)

Roundtable 1: The 70s and Us in a global frame

Roundtable 2: The 70s and Us in South Africa

Details and registration here:
https://swop.org.za/swop-popularpolitics/the-70s-and-us/

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02/06/2026

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📣 Join us for our upcoming workshop “Visual archives, memories and representations of South African student movements (1976/2016)”

📅 Thursday, June 4th
⏰ 9.00 for 9.30 – 16.00pm
📌 French Institute, 62 Juta Street, Braamfontein, Johannesburg
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As 2026 marks the anniversary of two major South African student protests — the student uprisings of 1976, and the , and movements of 2015-2016 — this workshop proposes to reflect on the visual archive(s) of the protests, on its (re)constitution and on its uses across time in the re-membering and re-presenting South African student movements.
A collaboration between the Wits History Workshop and IFAS-Research.

More details on our website: https://shorturl.at/esftU

CNRS
France in South Africa, Lesotho and Malawi
Umifre -Unités mixtes Instituts français de recherche à l'étranger-

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Address

Jorissen Street
Braamfontein
2050

Opening Hours

Monday 08:30 - 16:30
Tuesday 08:30 - 16:30
Wednesday 08:30 - 16:30
Thursday 08:30 - 16:30
Friday 08:30 - 16:30

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+27117174291

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