Programme
Monday 5th December
09:00 – 0:930 Welcome and introduction. Iina Soiri and Patience Mususa
09:30 – 10:30 COMPARING THE COPPERBELT: Political Culture and Knowledge Production in Central Africa. Miles Larmer and Stephanie Laemmert
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 WORKINMINING: Reinventing paternalism. The micropolitics of work in the mining companies of Central Africa. Benjamin Rubbers, Kristien Geenen, Emma Lochery,Thomas McNamara, James Musonda and Francesca Pugliese
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch at Blåsenhus
14:00 – 14:45 Whites on the Copperbelt in comparative and connected perspective, 1907-46. Duncan Money
14:45 – 15:30 The Copper Mining and Football: Comparing the game in the Katanga and Rhodesian Copperbelts c. 1930 – 1980. Hikabwa Chipande
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee in NAI Library
16:00 – 16:45 Nation-making at the Border: Post-Colonial Zambian Diplomacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Miles Larmer
16:45 – 17:30 Copper and Borders: The Genesis of Cross-border Trade and Labour Migration in the Copperbelt. Enid Guene
Tuesday 6th December
09:00 – 09:45 Trade flows within Africa’s Copperbelts: neoliberalism and the uneven management of space. Hélène Blaszkiewicz
09:45 – 10:30 Organizing Vendors on Zambia’s Copperbelt and Beyond: Spatio-temporal dynamics of the Affiliation of Zambia’s Informal Economy Associations (AZIEA). Lennert Jongh
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
11:00 – 11:45 Reflections on cultural and political associations on the mining industries of the Congolese and Zambian Copperbelt (1928 – 1960). Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu
11:45 – 12:30 The battle for authority between the state and other institutions in the Zambian and Congolese Copperbelt. Esther Uzar
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch at Blåsenhus
14:00 – 14:45 The Local State in a New Mining Area, Zambia’s Northwestern Province. Rita Kesselring
14:45 – 15:30 The planning visions of new mine towns in Africa’s Copperbelt.
Patience Mususa
15:30 – 16:00 Creating a network/ closing discussion