African Consumers and the Global Economy: A new History

AFRICAN CONSUMERS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: A NEW HISTORY

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Research Team of "Arms, Beads and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-century Global Economy"
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Italian Ministry of University and Research, Next Generation EU, PRIN Call 2022 funding programme
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07.02.2025 - 27.06.2025
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Connections Redaktion, Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics, Universität Leipzig

The research team of "Arms, Beads and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-century Global Economy" announces the launch of a seminar series that investigates the centrality of African societies and their material practices to global processes of production, exchange and consumption.

AFRICAN CONSUMERS AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: A NEW HISTORY

An on line Seminar Series from February to June 2025 with world-renowned experts in the field of African studies and global history.

The research team of "Arms, Beads and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-century Global Economy" announces the launch of a seminar series that investigates the centrality of African societies and their material practices to global processes of production, exchange and consumption.

The seminar is sponsored by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, in the framework of the European Union - Next Generation EU, PRIN Call 2022 funding programme (ref. no.: 2022YE9NBH).

Please contact us at Prin2022abc@gmail.com for more information and to get access to the seminar series. You can also get updates by following us on X (@Armsbeadscloth) and Bluesky (@arms-beads-cloth.bsky.social).

Programm

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

Contact (announcement)

Prin2022abc@gmail.com

https://armsbeadsandcloth.unipv.it/
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Published on
23.01.2025
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