OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
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10.15 – 10.45 Registration
10.45 – 11.00 J.G.Deutsch (Oxford) – Welcome/ Opening remarks
11.00 – 12.00 Keynote Address – J. Inikori (Rochester) “ The Person Whose Head is Used in Breaking a Coconut does not Participate in the Eating: The Enigma of West African History and Globalisation in the Long Nineteenth Century”
12.15 – 13.00 Lunch
13.00 – 14.30 Session One (Chair: M. Larmer)
T.Green (KCL) “Money, States and Imperialism: West African Gold Exports and the Triggers of European Expansion in the 14th and 15th Centuries”
G.Castryck (Leipzig) “Swahili Urbanity in East central Africa: Translocal Responses to Ethnic Exclusion and Global Incorporation”
J.McDougall (Oxford) “Paper title TBC”
14.30 – 15.00 Tea/Coffee
15.00 – 16.00 Session Two (Chair:J.G.Deutsch)
J.Cabrita (Cambridge) “Transatlantic Christianity and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Turn of the Century Faith Healing Movement in Illinois, USA and Transvaal, South Africa”
R.Reis (SOAS) “Global(ising) History: Africa and the Historical Imagination in the Nineteenth Century”
16.00 – 17.00 M.Larmer (Oxford) – Closing Summary/ General Discussion