The research team of "Arms, Beads and Cloth: African Consumers and the 19th-Century Global Economy" announces the launch of a seminar series that investigates the centrality of African societies and their material practices to global processes of produc tion, exchange and consumption.
Durata
20 ore a partire dal 7 febbraio 2025
Programma
- 7 febbraio 2025, ore 16:00, The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda, 1850-2000, con Patrick Otim, Bates College.
- 21 febbraio 2025, ore 16:00, From East Africa to Venice. How African consumers shaped Venetian glass bead production and trade in the 18th century, con Pierre Nicolò Sofia, Università di Padova.
- 7 marzo 2025, ore 16:00, Merchandise of Power: European arms in pre-colonial and colonial Tanzania (1850 to 1919), con Felix Brahm, Universität Münster.
- 11 aprile 2025, ore 16:00, Clothing empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese cotton textiles, and colonial capitalism, con Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California.
- 30 aprile 2025, ore 16:00, Africa and the Eighteen- century Diamond- shape Trade, con Giorgio Riello, Europian University Institute, Florence.
- 9 maggio 2025, ore 16:00, Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labpur in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900, con Jan-Bart Gewald, Leiden University.
- 23 maggio 2025, ore 16:00, (Post-)colonial threads: colonial- era demand patterns and the dynamics of early industrialization in East Africa, con Kate Frederick, Utrecht University.
- 6 giugno 2025, ore 16:00, Venetian Beads for the Atlantic Slave Trade, con Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics and Political Science.
- 27 giugno 2025, ore 14:00, An umbrella model: Indian cotton textiles in the early modern Atlantic trade, con Kazuo Kobayashi, Waseda University.
Per eventuali informazioni si prega di rivolgersi alla prof.ssa Karin Pallaver (karin.pallaver@unibo.it) o al dott. Alessandro De Cola (alessandro.decola@unibo.it).