Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig
7 February 2025 at 4pm CET
Patrick Otim, Bates College
The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda, 1850-2000
21 February 2025 at 4pm CET
Pierre Nicolo Sofia, University of Padua
From East Africa to Venice. How African Consumers Shaped Venetian Glass Bead Production and Trade in the 18th Century
7 March 2025 at 4pm CET
Felix Brahm, Universität Munster
Merchandise of Power: European Arms in Pre-colonial and Colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919)
11 April 2025 at 4pm CET
Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California
Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism
30 April 2025 at 4pm CET
Giorgio Riello, European University Institute, Florence
Africa and the Eighteenth-century Diamond-shape Trade
9 May 2025 at 4pm CET
Jan-Bart Gewald, Leiden University
Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865 - 1900
23 May 2025 at 4pm CET
Kate Frederick, Utrecht University
(Post-)colonial Threads: Colonial-era Demand Patterns and the Dynamics of Early Industrialization in East Africa
6 June 2025 at 4pm CET
Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics and Political Science
Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade
27 June 2025 at 2pm CET
Kazuo Kobayashi, Waseda University
An Umbrella Model: Indian Cotton Textiles in the Early Modern Atlantic Trade