10.15 – 10.45 Registration

10.45 – 11.00 J.G.Deutsch (Oxford) – Welcome/ Opening remarks

11.00 – 12.00 Keynote Address – J. Inikori (Rochester) “ The Person Whose Head is Used in Breaking a Coconut does not Participate in the Eating: The Enigma of West African History and Globalisation in the Long Nineteenth Century”

12.15 – 13.00 Lunch

13.00 – 14.30 Session One (Chair: M. Larmer)
T.Green (KCL) “Money, States and Imperialism: West African Gold Exports and the Triggers of European Expansion in the 14th and 15th Centuries”
G.Castryck (Leipzig) “Swahili Urbanity in East central Africa: Translocal Responses to Ethnic Exclusion and Global Incorporation”
J.McDougall (Oxford) “Paper title TBC”

14.30 – 15.00 Tea/Coffee

15.00 – 16.00 Session Two (Chair:J.G.Deutsch)
J.Cabrita (Cambridge) “Transatlantic Christianity and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Turn of the Century Faith Healing Movement in Illinois, USA and Transvaal, South Africa”
R.Reis (SOAS) “Global(ising) History: Africa and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century”

16.00 – 17.00 M.Larmer (Oxford) – Closing Summary/ General Discussion