Co-writing and Conference: Colonial Empires in Sub-Saharan Africa
Workshop Colonial Empires in Sub-Saharan Africa.Trans-imperial Perspectives and Multi-imperial Dynamics c.1700-1940
15 December, (sun) 2024. 12:30-17:30
Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus, Boissonade Tower 25F Conference Room C
Mozambique, late 19th century, Manuel Romão Pereira, Ponte sobre a ribeira de Itanculo, durante as reparações inCaminho de ferro de Lourenço Marques, 1886-1895
Program
Part I - Being ‘the other’ in the Empires in Africa in the 18th-19th century
Juliette Françoise, (University of Geneva) (online – in Canada)
French Colonial Entrepreneurs’ Trade Incursions in Madagascar, Portuguese Mozambique, and the Dutch Cape Colony From the Mascarene Station (18th and 19th century)
Gijs Dreijer (Leiden University) (online – in USA)
Dutch Investment in Africa in the 19th Century: Mozambique and the Transvaal (1870s-1910s)
Cátia Antunes (Leiden University)
How ‘Foreigners’ Exploited European Empires in Africa – Critical Insights into Notions of ‘National’ Empires
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva,( International Institute of Social History)
Enslaved Africans in Early Nineteenth-Century Urban Mozambique: Numbers, Profile and Ownership
Part II - From the Book: ‘In Another Empire. Japan in the Interwar British East Africa, c 1920-1930s’
Miki Sugiura (Hosei University)
About the Book Project
The Power of Cotton. Japanese advancing into the Land of British East Africa.
Robert Fletcher (University of Missouri)
British East Africa and the New Frontiers of Interwar Empires
Ryuto Shimada（The University of Tokyo）
Japan’s Shipping Network with African Continent in the 1930s
Hideaki Suzuki (National Museum of Ethnology)
ZAKKA, the assortment of daily things, and Notions on Civilization
Closing Remarks