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
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
