Preliminary Programme

Showing: Africa (all days)
Wed 23 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 24 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 17.30

Fri 25 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 26 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 23 April 2014 16.30 - 18.30
D-4 AFR01 Children and Migration in Africa
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Elodie Razy
Organizer: Elodie Razy Discussant: Elodie Razy
Jessica Cammaert : “I Want to Follow Kwaku”: Colonial Courts and the Feminization of Child Pawning along the North-eastern Borderlands of Ghana, 1941
Lacy Ferrell : Educational Migration and the Northern Territories of Colonial Ghana, c. 1900-1950
Sacha Hepburn : Child Migration, Gender and Domestic Labour in Post-colonial Zambia: Oral Histories of Female Domestic Workers



Thursday 24 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
J-5 AFR02 lab Mobility of People, Labour and Goods in and from the Horn of Africa: Past and Present of a Transnational Circulation
Hörsaal 29 first floor
Networks: Africa , Labour Chair: Christian De Vito
Organizer: Stefano Bellucci Discussant: Paulo Teodoro de Matos
Samuel Andreas Admasie : The making and unmaking of a multinational working class: Organisational expressions of class formation in the Highlands of the Horn 1960-78
Stefano Bellucci : Wage Labour without Capital: An Analysis of Italy's failed Attempts at Settling National Workers in Colonial Eritrea
Marina de Regt : Gender and Mobility between Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsula: An Anthropological Perspective
Massimo Zaccaria : Short Distance Migration in the Red Sear Region and the Libyan War, 1912-1935



Thursday 24 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
D-6 CRI22 Criminal Justice in Colonial Africa
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Criminal Justice Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mirjam de Bruijn
Gerald Groenewald : In a Land of Justice? Crime, Punishment and Slavery in Dutch Colonial South Africa, 1652-1795
Aimite Jorge : Property and Unjust Enrichment: The Elusive Problem of Interest in Restitution
Bérengère Piret : Is the Colonial Justice Impervious to the Native Realities? The Case of the District Court of the Belgian Congo



Thursday 24 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
D-7 AFR03 Special session. Memories of African Internal Slavery and Migration on Film: Constructed Visuals of Citizenship and Ethnicity in Contemporary Africa
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Culture Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mirjam de Bruijn



Friday 25 April 2014 8.30 - 10.30
ZD-9 ETH37 Postcolonial Identity
Prominentenzimmer
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn
Organizers: - Discussant: Mirjam de Bruijn
Hanan Sabea : Discourses of Free Flow, Practices of Containment: the Unbound Laboring Body and Migration in Tanzania and Egypt
Timo Särkkä : Colonial Identity-building in Southern and Central Africa: the Case of Finns 1900–1960
Aniek Smit, Maya Wester : On the border of the Musi: Dutch expatriates in Indonesia during the process of economic decolonization (1949-1965)



Friday 25 April 2014 11.00 - 13.00
D-10 AFR04 Cultural Identity Constructions in a global comparative perspective
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Culture Chair: Tundé Zack-Williams
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Ndiouga Benga : Citizenship and Religious Identity in Postcolonial Senegal
Jonathyne Briggs : Salut les copains?: Decolonization and Youth Identity in 1960s France
Birgit Englert : Creating Comoria – popular music in translocal spaces
Luiz Moretto : Cimboa and Violin: Subjectivities in the Cape Verdean Diaspora



Friday 25 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
D-11 AFR05 Political Economy and Social Conflict in Global and Transnational Perspective
Marietta-Blau-Saal raised g.f.
Networks: Africa , Economic History , Politics, Citizenship, and Nations , World History Chair: Massimo Zaccaria
Organizers: - Discussant: Hanan Sabea
Luca Ciabarri : War and the Shaping of the Extraverted Society. Globalization in Somali-lands and Local-level Transformations in the New State of Somaliland
Sophia du Plessis, Stan du Plessis : Which comes First: Good Governance or Prosperity? A Case Study from the South African Republic and the Orange Free State
Giulia Meloni, Johan Swinnen : The Rise and Fall of the World’s Largest Wine Exporter (And Its Institutional Legacy)


O-11 ETH22 Postcolonial Migration
Hörsaal 41 first floor
Networks: , Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Leo Lucassen
Organizer: Marjolein Schepers Discussant: Leo Lucassen
Bambi Ceuppens : City on the Move: From One Matonge to the Next
Marjolein Schepers : (Post-) Colonial Membership Regimes: Congolese Immigration in Belgium
Yann Scioldo-Zurcher : State Compensations Towards Repatriates in France



Saturday 26 April 2014 14.00 - 16.00
I-15 LAB18 Slavery and 'Free' Labour: Entangled Transitions in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Hörsaal 28 first floor
Networks: Africa , Labour Chair: Marcelo Mattos
Organizer: Gareth Austin Discussant: Andreas Eckert
Gareth Austin : “Coercion and the Market: Transitions to and from Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa, ca.1807-ca.1936”
Marcela Echeverri : Slavery and Politics in New Granada, 1809-1824
Henrique Espada Lima : The Invention of Free Labor in Brazil : Slavery, Contract and Law
Benedetta Rossi : Trajectories of Emancipation in West Africa’s Labour History: Slave Descendants as Working Classes in the Making?
Alessandro Stanziani : Debt, Labour and Bondage: English Servants versus Indentured Immigrants on Mauritius, from the Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century


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