Globalisation in the Long Nineteenth Century - Perspectives from Africa
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
Date: 27 May 2016, 10:15 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2016)
Venue: St Cross College, St Giles OX1 3LZ
Speakers: Joseph Inikori (Rochester University), Toby Green (KCL), Geert Castryck (Leipzig University), James McDougall (University of Oxford), Joel Cabrita (Cambridge University), Richard Reid (SOAS)
Organisers: Miles Larmer, Jan-Georg Deutsch
Organiser contact email address: global@history.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: http://global.history.ox.ac.uk/
Booking email: global@history.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence