Francesca Pulgiese presented in the panel ‘Women, Gender and Sexualities’. Her presentation entitled ‘Female workers in the Katangese formal mining sector: dealing with the masculine world in the workplace and at home’ described the domestic and professional lives of professionally employed female miners. Kristien Geenen organised a panel entitled A Copperbelt Labourer’s Lifeworld. On female miners, and miners wives, migration flows and union movements”’ In this panel James Musonda presented a paper called “Women in mining and (re) production of masculine production”, which described the enduring legacy of the Copperbelt as a gendered environment in Zambian responses to women’s employment. Thomas presented a paper entitled “Pray for Copper, Pray For Zambia, Pray for Development’ which described the false veneration of production in Zambia’s development narratives