What: 📽 Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival 2025
https://www.quicket.co.za/events/319427-rethinking-economics-for-africa-festival-2025/
When:
Where: 🕳 University of Johannesburg Student Center Auckland Park Campus
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The annual Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) Festival is back!
After a pause in 2024, we are pleased to announce that the REFA Festival returns on Friday, 5 September 2025. Now in its seventh edition, the Festival will, for the first time, be held at the University of Johannesburg’s Auckland Park Kingsway campus.
The REFA Festival is a space for students, activists and the public to engage with academics and policy-makers on the real issues confronting the economy, the economics discipline, and society. It is designed to be accessible to people from all levels and academic backgrounds. This is not just a conference — it is a Festival.
We explore ideas through art exhibitions, performances, film screenings, interactive displays, and stalls where organisations engage directly with participants. This year’s Festival will feature a wide range of topics, with a special focus on gender and feminist approaches to understanding and transforming the economy, economic policy, and economics teaching and learning.
PLEASE NOTE: This is an in-person event taking place in Johannesburg. There will be no online participation options.
The event is hosted by the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) in partnership with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung South Africa, Rethinking Economics for Africa, the South African Research Chair in Industrial Development (SARChI), the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS), the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC), the Institute for African Alternatives (IFAA), International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs), and the University of Johannesburg.