© Manuel Ramos, 2018
AEGIS Summer School, Cagliari, 3-7 July 2018
Africa: Connections and Disruptions
Tuesday 3 July
09.30-11.00 – Introduction to the 2018 AEGIS Summer School
11:00-11:30 – Coffee Break, Hostel
11.30-13.00 – Methodology session, Birgit Englert, Eric Komlavi Hahonou; chair Jon Abbink
13.00-15.00 – Lunch Break, Hostel
15.00-16.45 – Panel 1a. Critical junctures in African history – Chair: Jason Sumich
- Chewins, Linell (Witts, South Africa) – The Exclusive Ivory Commercial Company of Inhambane and Lourenço Marques: Re-evaluating slavery out of Delagoa Bay during the early 19th century
Discussants: Margot Luyckfasseel, Paul Nugent
Cristofaro, Domenico (Bologna, Italy) – Colonial rule or latent resistance? The prolonged process of conquest in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast (1896-1930)
Discussants: Claudio Sessa, Paul Nugent
16:45-17:00 – Coffee Break, Hostel
17.00-18.45 – Panel 1b. Critical junctures in African history – Chair: Paul Nugent
- Marmon, Edward Brooks (Edinburgh, UK) – From Dreams of Dominion to Aspirations of a New Africa: Decolonisation and Ahrn Palley’s Personal Winds of Change in Southern Rhodesia, 1959 – 1961
Discussants: Maurice Hutton, Jason Sumich
- Hutton, Maurice (Edinburgh, UK) – Modernisation on a Shoestring: The Moral Politics of African Housing Finance in Late Colonial Bulawayo, 1949-1975
Discussants: Linell Chewins, Antonio Pezzano
Wednesday 4 July
9.30-11.30 – Panel 7. Environmental problems, mobility and migration – Chair: Franz Kogelmann
- Worsøe, Jacob (Copenhagen, Denmark) – Social Nature and the Production of Uganda’s Forest Landscapes
Discussants: Eleanor Seymour, Birgit Englert
- Fedeler, Kristin (Edinburgh, UK) – Hydraulic Missions, Ruins and Revival: Politics of Space and Power in the Tana-Beles Basins, 1980s-Today
Discussants: Michele Sollai, Eric Komlavi Hahonou
11:30-12:00 – Coffee Break, Hostel
12.00-13.00 – Panel 2. Changing forms of politics: local and global – Chair: Antonio Pezzano
Michalko, Ján (SOAS, UK) – Modified, not Ruptured: Intersectional Analysis of Female Students’ Political Views in South Africa
Discussants: Camillo Casola, Birgit Englert
13.00-16.00 – Lunch Break, Hostel
16.00-17.45 – Roundtable Decolonising Europe: an outstanding issue, Valeria Deplano (Università degli Studi di Cagliari), Pierluigi Valsecchi (Università di Pavia), Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh), Manuel Ramos (ISCTE, Lisboa); chair Jason Sumich
In partnership with the University of Cagliari
Thursday 5 July
9.15-11.00 – Panel 3. Borders, mobilities, and globalisation – Chair: Eric Komlavi Hahonou
- Luyckfasseel, Margot (Ghent, Belgium) – Bringing Mpadi back to Mvuila: Reconnecting Kinshasa and the central Kongo province in the competition between prophetic movements
Discussants: Nokuthula Zinyengere, Franz Kogelmann
- Eckert, Florens (Bayreuth, Germany) – Surveilling the Maritime Border of Colonial Togo – German Migration Policies and What the People Made of It
Discussants: Alessio Iocchi, Franz Kogelmann
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break, Hostel
11.15-13.30 – Panel 5b. Infrastructures and power – Chair: Birgit Englert
- Seymour, Eleanor (Birmingham, UK) – A Historical Defence: Strategically Using the Historical Practice of Marriage by Kidnap as a Defence to Modern Day Forced Marriage in Northern Uganda
Discussants: Jacob Worsøe, Antonio Pezzano
- Bouland, Annelien Michele (Leiden, Netherlands) – In-between. The role of the Senegalese maison de justice in the resolution of marital conflict
Discussants: Ján Michalko, Eric Komlavi Hahonou
13.30-15.00 – Lunch Break, pocket lunch
Free Afternoon
Friday 6 July
9.30-11.15 – Panel 4. Securitisation and (dis)order – Chair: Manuel Ramos
- Iocchi, Alessio (Napoli, Italy) – The Political Economy of the Boko Haram Conflict
- Discussants: Annelien Michele Bouland, Ulf Engel
- Casola, Camillo (Napoli, Italy) – African actors, French politics and security dynamics in Sahel: a new dependency relation?
Discussants: Florens Eckert, Ulf Engel
11:15-11:45 – Coffee Break, Hostel
11.45-13.00 – Panel 8. Representing Africa: culture and critique – Chair: Jon Abbink
- Zinyengere, Nokuthula (Western Cape, South Africa) – Photographic Portraiture, Family Histories and Migration and in 20TH Century Zimbabwe
Discussants: Edward Brooks Marmon, Manuel Ramos
13.00-15.00 – Lunch Break, ristorante il Mozzo
15.00-16.45 – 5a. Infrastructures and power – Chair: Ulf Engel
- Sessa, Claudio (Genova, Italy) – The impact of Italian monetary policy in Somalia: the case of the Rupee (1910-1925)
- Discussants: Domenico Cristofaro, Jon Abbink
- Sollai, Michele (Geneve, Switzerland) – The Thin Green Line. Colonial Planning, War Economy, and the Origins of Rural Development in Ethiopia, 1936-1944
Discussants: Kristin Fedeler, Jon Abbink
Saturday 7 July
09.30-11.00 – Conclusion of the 2018 AEGIS Summer School
11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break, Hostel
11.15-13.00 – AEGIS Summer School Board meeting