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21 January
Due to unforeseen circumstances this seminar has unfortunately been postponed. A new date will be communicated as soon as possible.
Dr Jennifer Chansa, University of the Free State
'Regulating Copper Mining: a history of environmental management in Zambia'.
25 February
Prof. Eva Spies, University of Bayreuth
'Religious Engineering. a practice approach to (religious) projects of social transformation'.
11 March
Prof. Richard Cincotta, Stimson Center
22 April
Prof. Jennifer Cole, University of Chicago
'Love's Labor: gender and the work of Malagasy world expansion'.
27 May
Dr Miles Tendi, University of Oxford
TBA
June
(Speaker to be confirmed)
16 September
Prof. Karin Barber, University of Birmingham
'Doing Fieldwork in the Archive: print culture, publics and popular genres in colonial Lagos'.
28 October
Prof. Catherine Boone, London School of Economics
TBA
11 November
Prof. Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh
'Imagining the World: Swahili-language print media in early twentieth-century Tanzania'.
9 December
Prof. Wayne Modest, Research Center for Material Culture
TBA