Traversing Boundaries: Intermediaries and the Path to Independence in Africa and the Middle East

Thursday 19 March, A1.28 Millburn House

Programme

1.00 Registration

1.20 Welcome

1.30 – 3.00 Panel 1 – Chair –Prof. David Anderson

• Mark Glubb – The Arab Legion: Negotiating Imperial Boundaries in Transjordan
• Dr. Myriam Yakoubi - The intellectual and cultural foundations of colonial mediation as practiced by John Bagot Glubb in Transjordan, 1930-1946
• Gabriele Rizzi Bastiani -A European Colonial Intermediary: Bastiani, the “White Ras”

 

3.00 – 4.00 Panel 2 – Chair – Ian Caistor-Parker

• Prof. Richard Reid - Emotional Liaisons: Monarchy and Intermediacy in Buganda
• Fleur Martin - Revisiting the headmen, workers and companions of nineteenth century white led caravans

 

4.00 - 4.30 coffee

 

4.30 - 5.30 Panel 3 – Rose Miyonga

• Dr. Hermann von Hesse - More than an Intermediary: James Bannerman and Colonial Space-Making on the Nineteenth-Century Gold Coast
• Mathew Ayodele – Mobilizing Empire, Claiming Heritage: World War II and the Making of Nigerian Museums, 1936-1945

 

5.30 - 5.45 Concluding remarks

 

Drinks