WARWICK-STELLENBOSCH RESEARCH COLLABORATION, WORKSHOP 2/3

Part 2 - AFRICA’S COLD WAR, 1950-1989

Part 3 - ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES IN EASTERN & SOUTHERN AFRICA

 

Monday 23 June 2025, Oculus Building, OC.0.05

University of Warwick

 

10.00 - 10.30 Registration, with coffee/tea

10.30 – 12.30 Panel 1AFRICA’S COLD WAR

 ‘In my territory you have to do something’: MK, FAPLA and the war

against UNITA

Justin Pearce Stellenbosch University

‘Everything north of the Zambezi’: territorial ambitions and Cold War

contingency

Emma Orchardson The University of Warwick

Labour, Pan-Africanism and the Cold War in Kenya

Dan Branch The University of Warwick

12.30 – 1.15 Lunch

1.15 – 3.15 Panel 2ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES 1

 ‘The march of temperature’: scientific internationalism, high imperial

frontiers, and measures of global climate

Tom Simpson The University of Warwick

Apartheid’s Monsters: science, species, secrecy

Sandra Swart Stellenbosch University

Elephants in Zimbabwe [tbc]

Eddington Maseya Stellenbosch University

3.15 - 3.45 Coffee/tea

3.45 - 5.45Panel 3ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORIES 2

“We are cursed by God”:Prosopis juliflora, the flood, and Baringo’s

environmental future

David M Anderson The University of Warwick

Space is the Ultimate Luxury. Capitalists, Conservationists and

Ancestral Land in Namibia.

Luregn Lenggenhager University of Cologne

"When the economy sneezes, conservation catches a cold," Forest

conservation and the Zimbabwean crisis in Eastern Zimbabwe,

c.2000-2023.

Blessing Dhilwayo Stellenbosch University

5.45 - 6.15 Drinks

6.15 dinner for speakers and organisers at Benugo