Registration open for final project conference 18-19 June 2021
We are delighted to be able to share the programme and abstracts for the final conference of the ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ project. The conference, held […]
Events
Call for Papers: Comparing the Copperbelt: Social history and knowledge production in Central Africa, revised date 17-19 June 2021 (Oxford)
** REVISED CONFERENCE DATE 17-19 JUNE 2021 ** ** CALL FOR PAPERS – DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 OCTOBER 2020 ** ‘Comparing the Copperbelt’ is an […]
Globalising the environmental history of extraction (Extractive Industries & the Environment workshop report)
Report written by Iva Peša, Associate Member of History Faculty, Oxford and Research Associate in Environmental History, Comparing the Copperbelt project (Jan 17-Sep 19). What […]
Listen to podcasts from ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Industries’ workshop
Podcasts from the Comparing the Copperbelt project’s ‘Cultural Production in Africa’s Extractive Communities’ workshop held in May 2019 are now available to listen – see […]
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 […]
Kitwe workshop 23-24 July programme/abstracts
These are now available to download – click here to go to the event page.