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SUMMARY:Yi-Tang Lin (University of Zürich) - Rokupr (Sierra Leone) and the Sciences of Mangrove Rice Farming\, c. 1930-1990
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URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/yi-tang-lin-university-of-zurich-rokupr-sierra-leone-and-the-sciences-of-mangrove-rice-farming-c-1930-1990/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lecture series in Global and Regional History 2025-2026
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys":MAILTO:gillian.mathys@ugent.be
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251204T100000
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Simson (University of Oxford) - Africa’s Economic Crises of the 1980s: Were the Shock Waves Stronger than Elsewhere in the Global South?
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URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/rebecca-simson-university-of-oxford-africas-economic-crises-of-the-1980s-were-the-shock-waves-stronger-than-elsewhere-in-the-global-south/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lecture series in Global and Regional History 2025-2026
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys":MAILTO:gillian.mathys@ugent.be
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251127T100000
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CREATED:20251014T070501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T070501Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture series: Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University) - South-South Divergence: How Southeast Asia and Tropical Africa Grew Apart
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URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-series-ewout-frankema-wageningen-university-south-south-divergence-how-southeast-asia-and-tropical-africa-grew-apart/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lecture series in Global and Regional History 2025-2026
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys":MAILTO:gillian.mathys@ugent.be
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20251110T180000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251110T200000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20251014T070414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251014T071741Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture series: Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) - A Global History of Vanilla
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URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-series-eric-jennings-university-of-toronto-a-global-history-of-vanilla/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lecture series in Global and Regional History 2025-2026
ORGANIZER;CN="Prof. Dr. Gillian Mathys":MAILTO:gillian.mathys@ugent.be
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240418T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20240204T111109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240415T094108Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Nicole Eggers (University of Tennesse-Knoxville) - Unruly ideas: Kitawala\, everyday intellectuals\, and power in Congolese history
DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the multifaceted history of the Congolese religious movement Kitawala\, which has roots in the African Watchtower (Jehovah’s Witness) movement.  Drawing on a rich body of original oral\, ethnographic\, and archival research\, Nicole Eggers will consider how the history of Kitawala illuminates the complex relationship between politics\, religion\, healing\, and violence in Congo\, offering important insight into the work of everyday intellectuals in 20th century central African history. More than a case study of a particular religious movement\, the talk will investigate how communities and individuals in the region have historically imagined power\, sought to access it\, wielded it\, and policed the morality of its uses. \n\nNicole Eggers is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. Her research interests include 20th-21st Century Congolese history\, health and healing\, refugees\, and religion and politics in Central Africa. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-nicole-eggers-university-of-tennesse-knoxville-unruly-ideas-kitawala-everyday-intellectuals-and-power-in-congolese-history/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240328T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240328T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20240204T110938Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240204T111936Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: David Mwambari (KU Leuven) - The politics of vernacular memory in post-colonial African contexts
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will explore the evolution of memory politics in post-colonial Africa over the last two decades. Societies take different paths when coming to terms with violent pasts. Some undertake active commemorations (e.g.\, rituals\, memorials\, and ceremonies)\, while others elect for silence\, forgetting uncomfortable memories or remembering privately through vernacular platforms for many reasons. These memories and silences interact in public—in national\, regional\, and international politics. They shape the memory politics of the past and modern lived experiences as societies negotiate transitions. The influence peace and (in)security for these societies and beyond. This lecture will draw on empirical examples from research in postwar states in East\, Central\, and West Africa and beyond. \n  \nDavid Mwambari is an associate professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium and the principal investigator for the European Research Council (ERC)-funded TMSS project. He is core faculty and a board member at the Oxford Consortium on Human Rights\, University of Oxford. \nPreviously\, he was an assistant professor of African Security and Leadership Studies in the African Leadership Centre at King’s College (UK)\, an FWO postdoctoral research fellow with the Conflict Research Group at Ghent University (Belgium)\, and an assistant professor of International Relations at the United States International University–Africa in Nairobi\, Kenya. Professor Mwambari was also a fellow at Churchill College\, University of Cambridge (UK)\, \, African Academic Diaspora Fellow at The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (Senegal)\, and a visiting professor at Mackenzie University in Sao Paulo\, Brazil. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-david-mwambari-ku-leuven-the-politics-of-vernacular-memory-in-post-colonial-african-contexts/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240321T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240321T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Kalle Kananoja (University of Oulu) - From African medicinals to global pharmaceuticals: Lusoafrican trajectories\, 18th century – present
DESCRIPTION:How have African medical knowledge and medicinals been exported and marketed outside of Africa? How have herbal home remedies been developed into pharmaceutical products? What are the historical contours and current prospects of global interaction and co-operation in these undertakings? Despite the potential of harnessing African genetic resources for medicinal plant and pharmaceutical trade\, the continent continues to be a minor player in the global market for these products. As local markets tend to focus on selling unprocessed materia medica and the industry remains informal and diffuse\, only a limited number of plant species garner international interest. \n  \nTaking eighteenth-century Angola and Mozambique as starting points\, and engaging with recent historiography about African plant medicines\, this paper demonstrates the role played by dynamic and mobile cross-cultural medical encounters in Lusoafrican contexts and identifies lacunae to be addressed in future research. Discussing the sustained but modest scientific attention and commercial interest given to African phytotherapies and vernacular knowledge during Portuguese colonial rule\, this paper notes that the prospects for heightened development of Lusoafrican pharmaceutical industries seem to lie in South-South co-operation rather than neglectful North-South relationships. \n  \nKalle Kananoja is a Finnish historian with a background in African and (southern) Atlantic studies\, and work (since August 2021) as a lecturer in History of Science and Ideas at University of Oulu. His research focuses on social\, cultural and intellectual histories of slavery\, religion and medicine. His book Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa (Cambridge University Press\, 2021; included on the ALA’s Choice list of outstanding academic titles 2022) analyses continuous knowledge exchanges and perceptions of health\, disease and healing in West Central and West Africa in the early modern period. Kananoja co-edited Healers and Empires in Global History (Springer 2019)\, which explores cross-cultural medical encounters and the intertwined and plural medical histories involving non-Western healers from the Arctic\, Asia\, Africa\, Americas and the Caribbean. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-kalle-kananoja-university-of-oulu-from-african-medicinals-to-global-pharmaceuticals-lusoafrican-trajectories-18th-century-present/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240314T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240314T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20240204T110501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240204T112108Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Ulbe Bosma (International Institute of Social History\, Amsterdam) - The world of sugar: How the histories of sugar and capitalism are linked
DESCRIPTION:For most of history\, humans did without refined sugar. After all\, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets\, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Hence\, sugar remained marginal in the diets of most people for a long time. Then\, suddenly\, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its way into almost all the food we eat\, fostering illness and ecological crisis along the way? \n  \nPresenting his newest publication\, The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics\, Health\, and Environment over 2\,000 Years(Harvard University Press\, 2023)\, Professor Bosma will discuss the earliest evidence of sugar production and explain how traders brought small quantities of precious white crystals to rajahs\, emperors\, and caliphs during the Middle Ages. Later\, when European consumers discovered the sweet stuff\, increasing demand spawned a brutal quest for supply\, based on enslaved labor. Two-thirds of the 12.5 million Africans taken across the Atlantic were destined for sugar plantations. By the twentieth century\, sugar had become a major source of calories in diets across Europe and North America. Sugar has been at the heart of capitalism\, and this goes a long way in explaining why it poses such a threat to our bodies\, our environment\, and our communities. \n  \nUlbe Bosma is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History and Professor of International Comparative Social History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has published widely on colonial and postcolonial history\, commodity production\, migration\, and slavery\, particularly on the Dutch colonial empire. His books include The World of Sugar How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics\, Health\, and Environment over 2\,000 Years (Harvard University Press\, 2023)\, The Making of a Periphery (Columbia University Press\, 2019) and The Sugar Plantation in India and Indonesia (Cambridge University Press\, 2013). He is member of the coordinating team of the global network Commodity Frontiers Initiative. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-ulbe-bosma-international-institute-of-social-history-amsterdam-the-world-of-sugar-how-the-histories-of-sugar-and-capitalism-are-linked/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240229T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240229T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Morgan Robinson (Mississippi State University) - A language for the world: The standardization of Swahili
DESCRIPTION:[Abstract TBA] \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-morgan-robinson-mississippi-state-university-a-language-for-the-world-the-standardization-of-swahili/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231026T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231026T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20240204T110216Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Tomás Bartoletti (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology\, Zürich) - Towards a Multispecies History of Capitalism Economic Entomology and the Expansion of Ecological Frontiers\, circa 1880—1930
DESCRIPTION:By reassessing the development of pest control research in the tropical world between c. 1880 and 1930\, Tomás will examine the interlocking of agricultural economics in processes of multispecies territorialization and imperial capitalism. During this period\, the propagation of insect pests beyond imperial and state borders challenged the cost-effective exploitation of tropical raw materials.A branch of the scientific study of insects\, economic entomology\,was intensively applied to improve land use\, becoming a prominent field in global scientific research. Tomás’ project focuses on the role of European entomologists expanding the ecological frontier and profit aspirations through commodification processes in Latin America\, East Africa\, the Middle East and the Pacific Islands. The global circulation of knowledge about pest control has transformed socioecological dynamics in these regions\, and also powerfully shaped the model of agricultural production both in tropical lands and in the European context until our times. \n(in collaboration with the Sarton Centre for History of Science) \n  \nTomás Bartoletti is Senior Lecturer at the Chair for History of the Modern World of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. His current project “Insect Pests and Economic Entomology in Plantations\, c. 1870–1930s: A Multispecies History of Global Capitalism” is granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-tomas-bartoletti-swiss-federal-institute-of-technology-zurich-towards-a-multispecies-history-of-capitalism-economic-entomology-and-the-expansion-of-ecological-frontiers-circa-1880/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231012T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231012T160000
DTSTAMP:20260408T053436
CREATED:20240204T105744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240204T112118Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Mariana Candido (Emory University) - Wealth\, Land\, and Property in Angola: A history of dispossession\, slavery\, and inequality
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession\, consumption\,and inequality in West Central Africa\, Mariana Candido presents a revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–85. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights informed the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labor. By centering the experiences of West Central Africans\, and especially African women\, this book challenges dominant historical narratives and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest\, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history. \n  \nMariana P. Candido is the Winship Distinguished Research Professor of History at Emory University and the Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin\, Fall 2023. Prof. Candido is a specialist in West Central African history during the era of the transatlantic slave trade. She has also authored An African Slaving Port and the Atlantic World: Benguela and its Hinterland (Cambridge University Press\, 2013) and is co-editor of the journal African Economic History. \n  \nPart of the Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024.
URL:https://www.grh.ugent.be/event/lecture-mariana-candido-emory-university-wealth-land-and-property-in-angola-a-history-of-dispossession-slavery-and-inequality/
LOCATION:Auditorium Vandenhove (Rozier 1\, next to the Book Tower\, 9000 Ghent)\, Rozier 1\, Gent\, 9000
CATEGORIES:Lectures series in African and Global History 2023-2024
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