3rd biennial conference on African history

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3rd biennial conference on African history

Organizer
AEGIS thematic group African history / histoire africaine (AH-HA); in cooperation with the Institut für Afrikanistik of Leipzig University
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Leipzig
Country
Germany
From - Until
20.03.2016 - 22.03.2016
Deadline
31.01.2016
Website
https://ahha2016leipzig.wordpress.com
By
Geert Castryck, Centre for Area Studies, Universität Leipzig

The thematic group African history / histoire africaine (AH-HA), under the aegis of AEGIS – African Studies in Europe, organizes its third biennial conference on African history in Leipzig, from Sunday 20 till Tuesday 22 March 2016.

The conference is hosted by the Institut für Afrikanistik at Leipzig University, with support from the Centre for Area Studies at Leipzig University and from AEGIS – African Studies in Europe.

The conference format is built around eight thematic roundtables with three to five panelists each. Roundtables are opened by a series of brief essayist presentations by the roundtable participants, leaving ample time for general discussion.

The conference further includes a key lecture, “The Exciting Lecture on African History”, which will be held by Gareth Austin.

Conference participants get the opportunity to display a poster, presenting ongoing research projects. Those willing to do so should contact the conference organizers by 31 January 2016 to reserve space.

One of the purposes of this meeting is to achieve closer integration of teaching and research on African history, and we hope that the meeting will set a research agenda around which further collaboration and projects can be shaped.

More information about registration, poster presentations, accommodation and more detailed descriptions of the roundtables can be found on the conference website: https://ahha2016leipzig.wordpress.com

Programm

Sunday 20 March 2016

The events on the opening day of the conference are in honour of Adam Jones.

15:00 Opening of the conference
Words of welcome

15:30 – 17:00 Roundtable I – New and old sources for African history
(organized by the journal History in Africa)
Convenor: Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Panelists: Jan Jansen, Peter Mark, Silke Strickrodt, Michel Doortmont

17:30 – 19:00 3rd Exciting lecture on African History
Wheat and chaff? Sources and methods in the ‘new’ economic history of Africa
by Gareth Austin (Graduate Institute, Geneva & University of Cambridge)

19:00 Welcome drink

20:00 Informal dinner (registration required)

Monday 21 March 2016
09:00 – 10:30 Roundtable II – Pour une histoire des productions culturelles en Afrique : méthodologie et sources
Convenor: Odile Goerg
Panelists: Didier Nativel, Aline Pighin, Emmanuelle Spiesse

10:30 Coffee break and poster presentations

11:00 – 12:30 Roundtable III – East/Central European knowledge production on and with Africa during the Socialist era
Convenor: Jan Záhořík
Panelists: Frank Hadler, Steffi Marung, Hanna Rubinkowska, Istvan Tarrosy, Viera Vilhanova

12:30 Lunch and poster presentations

14:00 – 15:30 Roundtable IV – Transregional histories within and without Africa
Convenor: Geert Castryck
Panelists: Samuël Coghe, Camille Lefebvre, Achim von Oppen, Iain Walker

15:30 Coffee break and poster presentations

16:00 – 17:30 Roundtable V – The affective turn and self-reflexivity in African historiography
Convenor: Elena Vezzadini
Panelists: Silvia Bruzzi, Leila Tayeb, Violaine Tisseau

18:00 – 18:45 Business meeting – AEGIS thematic group African history / histoire africaine (AH-HA)

20:00 Conference dinner (registration required)

Tuesday 22 March 2016
09:00 – 10:30 Roundtable VI – Les “autorités morales” à l’épreuve et le politique en Afrique : historicités et usages de la “néo-tradition” en contextes colonial et post-colonial
Convenor: Benoit Beucher
Panelists: Jean-Marie Bouron, Vincent Hiribarren, Anna Pondopoulo, Adrienne Vanvyve

10:30 Coffee break and poster presentations

11:00-12:30 Roundtable VII – Developmentalism in African history
Convenor: Benedetta Rossi
Panelists: Felicitas Becker, Gary Blank, Reuben Loffman

12:30 Lunch and poster presentations

13:30 – 15:00 Roundtable VIII – Africans at work: Revisiting African labour history and the history of work in Africa
Convenor: Andreas Eckert
Panelists: Stefano Belluci, Miles Larmer, Thaddeus Sunseri, Julia Tischler

Contact (announcement)

Geert Castryck
Centre for Area Studies
Leipzig University
Thomaskirchhof 20
D-04109 Leipzig
Email: ahha2016leipzig@gmail.com

https://ahha2016leipzig.wordpress.com
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02.12.2015
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