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 […]
News and blog posts
South-south cooperation in the twenty-first century Copperbelt: Egyptian investment in Zambia’s copper value chain – Mostafa Abdelaal
Mostafa Abdelaal is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and Assistant Lecturer at the Institute of African Research and Studies at Cairo University. For […]
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 […]
Frustration in the Archives: Working in Kongolo, Tanganyika Province – Reuben Loffman
Reuben Loffman’s forthcoming book, Church and State in the Belgian Congo, 1909-1962, based in part on his PhD fieldwork, will be published in the Cambridge […]
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 […]
The Knowledge of Hearts and Minds: Measuring Love (and Intelligence) in Late Colonial Congo – Amandine Lauro
Amandine Lauro is a Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Université libre de Bruxelles. “Love, what is it?” […]
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 […]
Urbanism in Central Africa, ESSHC Conference Report
Post by Iva Peša, Research Associate in Environmental History, ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project, University of Oxford. From 4-7 April 2018 the European Social Science History […]