‘Comparaison de le ‘copperbelt’’ conference, July 2019
On 23-24 July 2019, the Comparing the Copperbelt project co-organised a major conference with our partners at University of Lubumbashi (UNILU). The conference, held at […]
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Call for Contributions: Extractive Industries and the Environment: Production, Pollution and Protest from a Global and Historical Perspective, December 2019 (Oxford)
Paper proposals are invited for a 2-day workshop in Oxford on 6-7 December 2019 on ‘Extractive Industries and the Environment’. Contemporary societies are built around […]
Seminar: ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’, 16 May 2019
‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ is the sixth research seminar of the ERC project ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ based at the University of Oxford. It […]
Call for Papers: Comparing the Copperbelt: Society, Ecology and Culture in Central Africa’s mining communities – University of Lubumbashi, DRC, 23-24 July 2019
Workshop held in association with the University of Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo This workshop, building on a successful event held in Zambia in July […]
Call for Contributions: edited book ‘Comparing the Copperbelts’
We invite expressions of interest in an edited volume provisionally titled ‘Comparing the Copperbelts’ and scheduled to be published in late 2020/early 2021, as an […]
Seminar: Knowledge Production in Colonial and Post-colonial History, 2 November 2018 (Oxford)
The production of knowledge about colonised peoples was, it is now recognised, at the heart of imperial rule. European colonisation of the non-western world drew […]
Comparing the Central African Copperbelt: Kitwe conference, July 2018
A landmark event for the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project took place in the Zambian copperbelt city of Kitwe on 23-24 July 2018, when a two-day […]
Job vacancy: Research Associate in the History of Haut Katanga, DRC (Comparing the Copperbelt project)
School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Oxford Grade 7: £31,604 p.a. The African Studies Centre in the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies seeks applications from candidates […]
Kitwe workshop 23-24 July programme/abstracts
These are now available to download – click here to go to the event page.
Congo Research Network conference, April 2018
Conference report by Miles Larmer and Benoit Henriet of the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. On 26-27 April 2018, the University of Oxford played host to […]