In association with the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ ERC funded project. All welcome – to confirm attendance contact global@history.ox.ac.uk
Speakers:
Dr Christian Müller (Nottingham Ningbo), ‘The colonial guardians of slavery? The problem of forced labour and inter-imperial knowledge transfer under the League of Nations, 1919-1937’
Professor Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (Coimbra, Portugal), ‘The labours of colonial cooperation: interimperial organisations and the questions of labour and welfare in the 1950s’
Professor Amandine Lauro (Université libre de Bruxelles), ‘‘The British, the French and even the Russians use these methods’: psychology, mental testing and (trans)imperial dynamics of expertise production in late colonial Congo’
Professor Miles Larmer (Oxford), ‘‘Decolonising’ knowledge production in Central Africa’s mining towns before and after independence’
Discussants:
Dr Tim Livsey (Oxford) and Dr Hussein Omar (Oxford)
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