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African Economic History Seminar
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The AFRICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY SEMINAR meets on four Tuesdays in Lent Term, 5.15-6.45 pm, January-March 2024. The physical venue is the Audit Room of King’s College Cambridge. The meetings will also be on Zoom. Convenors: Prof. Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) and Dr. Bronwen Everill (Director of the Centre of African Studies). Please note: to receive the zoom link you need to subscribe to the seminar email list, which you can do at https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/african-economic-history If you have a question about this list, please contact: Gareth Austin; Bronwen Everill. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 29 talks in the archive. ‘Living Standards in Angola, 1760-1975’Hélder Carvalhal (University of Manchester). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 12 March 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘Elite Persistence in Sierra Leone: What Can Names Tell Us?’Rebecca Simson (Oxford/London School of Economics). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 27 February 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘Consumer Experiences in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe: Trends and Developments, 1980 to 2023’Eric Makombe (University of Zimbabwe). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 13 February 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘East African Grain Markets in Long-Run Perspective, c. 1900-2020’Michiel de Haas (Wageningen University). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 16 January 2024, 17:15-18:45 ‘Money, Imperial Sterling, and Colonial Economy-Building’This final meeting of the term will be on Zoom only Tinashe Nyamunda (University of Pretoria). Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:15-18:45 ‘A Global Moment: The Circulation of East African Cowries across Land and Oceans (18th-19th Century)’This is a joint meeting with the History and Economics Seminar Karin Pallaver (University of Bologna) . King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 07 March 2023, 17:15-18:45 ‘Rural Capitalism and Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Trends and Transitions’Prince Young Aboagye (Lund University). King's College (Gibbs Building, Room E.3). Tuesday 21 February 2023, 17:15-18:45 ‘Raising Capital to Raise Crops: Slave Emancipation and Agricultural Output in the Cape Colony’Igor Martins (University of Cambridge). King's College (Gibbs Building, Room E.3). Tuesday 07 February 2023, 17:15-18:45 'The History and Politics of Capital Markets in Post-independence Africa: Comparative Insights from Nigeria and Kenya’Mariusz Lukasiewicz (University of Leipzig). King's College (Gibbs Building, Room E.3) -- please note new room. Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:15-18:45 From Mortgage Holders to Slum Landlords: Compensated Emancipation and the Building of Cape Town, 1830s-1840sThis talk was postponed from 15 February to 26 April Kate Ekama (Stellebosch University, South Africa). Tuesday 26 April 2022, 17:00-18:30 Gains and Gainers on Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans and Slave-Based Commodities: Towards a Global ApproachFilipa Ribiero da Silva (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 15 March 2022, 17:00-18:30 The Angolan Coffee Frontier, 1820-1920The presentation will be only 20 minutes, so discussion will be based largely on people having read the paper in advance. If you are coming to the seminar, please contact Gareth Austin (gma31@cam.ac.uk) for the paper. Jelmer Vos (University of Glasgow). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 08 March 2022, 17:00-18:30 African Merchants in Lagos: An Exploration in Entrepreneurial HistoryA. G. Hopkins (University of Cambridge). King's College (the Audit Room). Tuesday 01 February 2022, 17:00-18:30 A Mapping of Resource-rich Precolonial Territories: How do Economic Resources Influence Voting Patterns in Postcolonial Ghana?George Bob-Milliar, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana. Tuesday 18 January 2022, 17:00-18:30 ‘African Entrepreneurship: the Fetish of Personal Responsibility’Moses Ochonu (Vanderbilt University, Nashville). Tuesday 16 March 2021, 17:00-19:00 ‘A History of Rubber Production in Africa’Reuben Loffman (Queen Mary University of London). Tuesday 02 March 2021, 17:00-19:00 'Measuring Historical Income Inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables?’Ellen Hillbom (Lund) and Jutta Bolt (Lund), Michiel de Haas (Wageningen) and Frederico Tadei (Barcelona),. Tuesday 16 February 2021, 17:00-19:00 'Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969’Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg). Tuesday 02 February 2021, 17:00-19:00 ‘From Oil Shocks to Structural Adjustment in Two African Beverage-Crop Economies: Ghana and Kenya Compared, 1973-1983’Gareth Austin, King's College, Cambridge. Tuesday 26 January 2021, 17:00-19:00 CANCELLED! Capital and colonialism: The return on British investments in Africa 1869-1969This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action. Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg University). Tuesday 10 March 2020, 17:00-19:00 The fiscal history of the British Cape Colony in comparative perspectives: Rethinking the South African exceptionalism, 1814-1910This seminar is college-based, so unaffected by the current industrial action. Abel Gwaindepi (Lund University). Tuesday 25 February 2020, 17:00-19:00 Marching with the Times: Numbers and Temporalities in 1960s GhanaPlease note that, for this meeting only, we start at 17:30 Gerardo Serra (University of Manchester). Tuesday 18 February 2020, 17:30-19:00 Nigeria, British Economic Interests and the Sterling Guarantee AgreementChibuike Uche, Leiden University. Tuesday 04 February 2020, 17:00-18:30 Ores for Development? Local Effects of Central African Copper Mining in Comparative Perspective (1910 to 2000)Dácil Juif (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid). Tuesday 21 January 2020, 17:00-18:30 Legacies of loss: The intergenerational outcomes of slaveholder compensation in the British Cape ColonyJohan Fourie (Stellenbosch). Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge: the Green Room. Friday 07 June 2019, 17:00-19:00 Gender and the Colonial Labour Market in Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1980At 18:30, the seminar will be followed by the launch of Dr Kufakurinani's book, 'Elasticity in Domesticity: White Women in Rhodesian Zimbabwe, 1890 to 1979', published by Brill (Leiden). Dr Ushehwedu Kufakurinani (University of Zimbabwe). Tuesday 12 March 2019, 17:00-19:00 Struggles over slavery, struggles over power: Africa 1926-1946Dr Benedetta Rossi (University of Birmingham). Tuesday 26 February 2019, 17:00-19:00 The historical roots of entrepreneurial growth aspirations in AfricaDr Stephanie Decker (Aston University). Tuesday 12 February 2019, 17:00-19:00 Approaching a 2nd Edition of An Economic History of West Africa'A. G. Hopkins, Cambridge. Tuesday 29 January 2019, 17:00-19:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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