UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG

School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies

The School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies is one of the most productive research units at Wits. Staff members contribute regularly to local and international publications and are members of the editorial boards of many prestigious journals. The School has an excellent reputation both locally and internationally as one of the leaders in African scholarship on issues such as sustainability, climate change, urban social and environmental justice, tourism and development. 

We also lead in rock art studies, Paleoarchaeology, the Stone Age, pre-colonial farming and herding societies and the formation of modern cultural identities in the last five hundred years. We offer undergraduate programmes in the disciplines of Geography and Archaeology and postgraduate degrees in Physical Geography, Human Geography, Environmental Studies, Archaeology, Rock Art studies and Palaeoarchaeology. We have close links with the Institute of Human Evolution , as well as with the School of Geoscience, the Rock Art Research Institute and the School of Animals, Plants and Environmental Science.

Forthcoming Seminars

Speaker

Seminar Details

Date

David Roche-Kelly : School of Economics and Business Science

“Turning Vinegar into Water:  Using Feed-In Tariffs to sustain a variety of technologies and methodologies to treat Acid Mine Drainage”

 

11/04/2013 at  13:13 to 14:10
Bernard Price Building BP016

McEdward Murimbika (Ph.D.): Nzumbululo Heritage Foundation

Geography of apartheid and the archaeology of democracy: Constitutional challenges of proposed changes to land restitution and cultural heritage in post-apartheid South Africa

18/04/2013 at 13:13 to 14:10
Bernard Price Building BP016