Preliminary Programme

Showing: Africa (all days)
Wed 30 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Thu 31 March
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Fri 1 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

Sat 2 April
    8.30 - 10.30
    11.00 - 13.00
    14.00 - 16.00
    16.30 - 18.30

All days
Wednesday 30 March 2016 8.30 - 10.30
J-1 ECO01 A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Structure Across Sub-Saharan Africa I. Southern Africa
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Gareth Austin
Organizers: Gareth Austin, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussants: -
Johan Fourie, Omphile Ramela : A Skill Divergence? Occupational Structures and South Africa’s Mineral Revolution
Erik Green : The Occupational Structure of Malawi, 1945-2010: Moving beyond Path Dependency
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva : The Occupational Structure of Mozambique, 1900-2000: Continuities and Changes



Wednesday 30 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
J-2 ECO02 A Comparative Historical Analysis of Occupational Structure Across Sub-Saharan Africa II. Western and Eastern Africa.
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Leigh Shaw-Taylor
Organizers: Gareth Austin, Leigh Shaw-Taylor Discussant: Andreas Eckert
Gareth Austin : Occupational Structure and Urbanization in Modern Ghanaian History: a Preliminary Exploration
Michiel de Haas, Ewout Frankema : The Occupational Structure of Belgian Congo, Zaïre and DRC, 1920-present
Karin Pallaver : “Counting Huts, Heads and Labourers: Sources on Size and Structure of the Labour Force in Kenya and Tanzania (1921-2012)”
Marlous van Waijenburg : Occupational Structural in French West Africa since 1850



Wednesday 30 March 2016 16.30 - 18.30
B-4 CRI18 Crime, Law, Race and Responsibility in British Imperial Spaces
Seminario B, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Criminal Justice Chair: Diana Paton
Organizer: Diana Paton Discussant: Diana Paton
Catherine Evans : Cannibals and Culpability: Assessing Criminal Responsibility in Colonial Canadian Murder Trials
Stacey Hynd : 'Madness' v. 'Badness': Criminal Insanity and Cultural Defence Narratives in British Colonial African Murder Trials, c. 1920-50s
Jonathan Saha : Murder in London Zoo: Race, Masculinity and Empire in the Inter-war Years
Pieter Spierenburg : Did Violence Contribute to the Making of Race? A Hypothesis
Erica Wald : ‘Unremitting Drunkenness’: Race, Class and Alcohol Regulations in Nineteenth Century India


J-4 ECO07 From Natural Resources to Human Capital: the Historical Development of Institutions for Knowledge and Skill Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Aula 7, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizers: Ewout Frankema, Dacil Juif, Marlous van Waijenburg Discussant: Gareth Austin
Joerg Baten, Gabriele Cappelli : Colonial Influence or African Agency? Numeracy Across West African Regions, c. 1770 – 1900
Ewout Frankema, Marlous van Waijenburg : Here has all the Education Gone. The ‘Free-fall’ of Skill Premiums in Africa and Southern Asia in the Long 20th Century
Dacil Juif : Resource Curse or Blessing? The Impact of Mining Activities on Human Capital Formation in Zambia and Congo
Felix P. Meier zu Selhausen, Shane Doyle & Jacob Weisdorf : The Returns to Religious Conversion: Lessons from Ugandan Hospital Registry, 1908-1970



Thursday 31 March 2016 11.00 - 13.00
A-6 AFR03 African and Euro-African Actors in Transcultural Environments
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Network: Africa Chair: Stefano Bellucci
Organizer: Patrik Hettula Discussant: Kaarle Wirta
Patrik Hettula : Euro-African Social Spaces on the Gold Coast during 1850 to 1950
John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Fredrik Hyrum Svensli : Inverted Spaces: Migration and Urbanization in the Accra Coastal Communities during Akwamu Rule, c. 1680-1730
Holger Weiss : The International of Seamen and Harbour Workers and the ‘Hands off Abyssinia’ Campaign.



Friday 1 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
A-10 AFR04 Histories from the Margins of Colonialism: Transformations, Contradictions, Continuities and Challenges in Western Saharan and Maghrebi Regions (1956-2015)
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Network: Africa Chair: Francesco Correale
Organizer: Francesco Correale Discussant: Alicia Campos Serrano
Joanna Allan : Women’s Intersectional Resistance in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea under Spanish Colonialism
Enrique Bengochea Tirado : Women Mobilization in Sahara during the Late Spanish Colonialism
Sara Borrillo : Colonial, Post-colonial or Decolonial? Some Reflexions on Moroccan Secular and Islamic Feminisms in a Historical Perspective
Timo Särkkä : Picturing Colonialism in the Congo. Colonial Encounters in Finnish Travel Photography



Friday 1 April 2016 16.30 - 18.30
A-12 AFR06 Quantifying Transitions: Africa from the 17th to the 20th Century
Seminario A, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Economic History Chair: Morten Jerven
Organizers: Angus Dalrymple-Smith, Pieter Woltjer Discussant: Morten Jerven
Kleoniki Alexopoulou, Ewout Frankema : Do Economies of Scale Matter? Effective Occupation and Military Spending in Portuguese, French and British Africa in the Early Colonial Period (1890s-1940s)
Jutta Bolt, Leigh Gardner : De-compressing History? Understanding the Origins of Colonial Institutions in British Africa
Angus Dalrymple-Smith, Pieter Woltjer : Commodities, Prices and Risk: The changing markets for non-slave products in pre-abolition West Africa
Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie & Kris Inwood : Black living standards in South Africa before democracy: Evidence from three new datasets on heights



Saturday 2 April 2016 11.00 - 13.00
D-14 AFR02 Boat People: Past and Present
Aula 1, Nivel 0
Networks: Africa , Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Gijs Kessler
Organizer: Irial Glynn Discussant: Eliana Hadjisavvas
Marcel Berlinghoff : Vietnamese Boat People – A Counterflow in European Refugee Restriction?
Irial Glynn : Comparing the Politics of ‘Boat People’ in Italy and Australia Since the Early 1990s


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