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