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Publications

Lachenicht, S.: Migrations and Diasporas. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press 2011.

Lachenicht, S.: Ethnicity In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press 2011.

Lachenicht, S. Religious Networks. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press 2013.

Lachenicht, S. Religious Border-Crossing. In: Oxford Bibliographies in Atlantic History. Ed. Trevor Burnard. New York: Oxford University Press 2013.

Whyte, C.: ‘Everyone Knows that Laws Bring the Greatest Benefits to Mankind’: The Global and Local Origins of Anti-Slavery in Abyssinia, 1880–1942. Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, Volume 35, Issue 4, 2014.

Whyte, C. “‘Everyone knows that laws bring the greatest benefits to mankind’: The global and local origins of anti-slavery in Abyssinia, 1880-1942”. In: Slavery & Abolition, April 2014.

Lachenicht, S. Einleitung Forum Atlantische Geschichte, II-IV. <www.sehepunkte.de>Urbano, A.  ‘Siding with the wrong side: the pro-Italia movement in British-occupied Somalia 1946-9’, Submitted, under review.

Lachenicht, S. (as editor with Dagmar Freist): Connecting Worlds and People. Early Modern Diasporas as Translocal Societies, Farnham: Ashgate: forthcoming 2015.

Urbano, A. ‘The politics of self-government in quasi-independent Somalia, 1956-9’, Submitted, under review.


Public presentations and media-performances

Achim v.Oppen: 11.9. 2012, Impulsreferat "Afrika neu verstehen: Die Bedeutung der Bilder"; Planungsklausur der Offenen Akademie der Münchner Volkshochschule zur Vorbereitung des Schwerpunkts "Afrika im Aufbruch" der MVH im Winter 2014/15 (u.a. in Kooperation mit der Bayreuth Academy).

Achim v.Oppen: 16. Oktober 2012 (zus. mit Susan Arndt): Interview zur Eröffnung der Bayreuth Academy mit Christian Wißler, Pressestelle der Universität Bayreuth (erschienen als Pressemitteilung Nr. 283 / 2012. Details here.

Achim v.Oppen: 3.12.2012: Interview zur Eröffnung der Bayreuth Academy (Nordbayrischer Kurier).

Achim v.Oppen: 3.12.2012: Interview zur Eröffnung der Bayreuth Academy (Bayrischer Rundfunk, "Regionalzeit").

Achim v.Oppen: Dez. 2012: Interview zur Eröffnung der Bayreuth Academy (Newsletter of African Studies Bayreuth (NAB), Eric Anchimbe, erschienen in NAB 2012. Details here.

Achim v.Oppen: 21.2.2013: Interview im Rahmen der Sendung "Afronauten - Ein Raumfahrtprogramm in Sambia 1964" (Bayrisches Fernsehen, "Capriccio", Manfred Krieger).

Achim v.Oppen: 19.03.2013: Interview zum 200. Geburtstag des Afrikareisenden und Visionärs David Livingstone (Hessischer Rundfunk "Wissenswert", Ulrich Thimm).

 

Lectures

Christine Whyte: 7.11. 2013, Seminar “Die Geschichte der Entwicklung … (A.v.Oppen, s.u.): The founding of Sierra Leone: Development, Colonization and Anti-Slavery.

Christine Whyte: 5.12. 2013, Bayreuth Academy, Arbeitsgruppe B, Session “The Future We Want”: “The Sierra Leone we want” (Sierra Leonean views and protests about governance at the time of independence).

Christine Whyte: 5.12. 2013, Bayreuth Academy, Arbeitsgruppe B, Workshop “Sharing/Dividing Futures”: Modern African Manifestos on the Future.

Christine Whyte: Between Empire and Colony: US American colonisation and Pan-African Empire in Liberia, Liberian Studies Association (LSA) Conference, Chicago, 26– 29 March 2014.

Christine Whyte: “Freedom and Nothing Else” Post-Slavery in Sierra Leone, 1956. Workshop ‘Shadows of Slavery’ Milan, 5-6 May 2014.

Christine Whyte: “The plight of former slaves” Protesting decolonisation in Sierra Leone, Workshop "Histories of the Future in modern Kenya and beyond: Exchanges about current research" Bayreuth, 11 June 2014.

Christine Whyte: “If a Slave is a person”: the abolition of slavery in Sierra Leone, 1926, History Retreat, Bernried, 13-15 June 2014.

Christine Whyte: Adoption and Colonialism: West African children in transcolonial families, Conference, Hard & Soft Colonialisms, Kent University, 7-8 July 2014.

Christine Whyte: Slavery and Freedom in Sierra Leone, Seminar Paper, Harriet Tubman Center, York University, Canada, 20 September 2014.

Christine Whyte: Freetown's Alien Children: Colonialism, Childcare and Anti-slavery in 19th Century Sierra Leone, Public Lecture, Yale University, 29 October 2014.

Christine Whyte: Light into Darkness: Liberia College and Pan-Africanism, Post-doc Workshop Bayreuth Academy, 28 November 2014.

Christine Whyte: “The people might be slaves, entirely innocent’: the Special Court in Sierra Leone, 1912, Centre for African Studies Seminar, Birmingham University, 10 December 2014.

Christine Whyte: Fostering Civilisation, Kent University History Seminar, 11 December 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: 22.9.2013, Conference An Imperial World at War: The British Empire, 1939-1945, Kellogg College, University of Oxford: Beyond  the  Allied  Wartime Propaganda: British  Labour  Policies  in  Somalia during  the  Second  World War".

Annalisa Urbano: 5.12.2013, Bayreuth Academy, Arbeitsgruppe B, Session “The Future We Want”: “The Somalia we want” (Alternative political organizations emerging in Somalia after the Second World War).

Annalisa Urbano: ‘Beyond the Allied Wartime Propaganda: British Labour Policies in Somalia during the Second World War’, British Empire at War, Kellogg College Oxford, September 2013.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘Visions of the future and socio-political activism in British-occupied Somalia’, Postwar Empires in Africa, UW-Madison African Studies Program, 10 April 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘All Somalis are equal and brothers’: The Somali Youth League and visions of unity and equality, Workshop "Histories of the Future in modern Kenya and beyond: Exchanges about current research" Bayreuth, 11 June 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘Decolonization Fractured? Ideas and practices of democratization in Somalia’, History Retreat, Bernried, 13-15 June 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘Contesting the past: Issues on the use of oral memories in Somalia and Somaliland’, Media of Memory: Between the Oral and the Digital, GISFOH, Potsdam, 8 September 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: Redefining race, overcoming defeat: the ‘return’ of Italian colonial settlers from East Africa (1946-9), Peoples and Borders: Movements of Persons in/to/from Europe, Padua, 5 November 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘Political Imagination and Global Governance’, Post-doc Workshop Bayreuth Academy, 27 November 2014.

Annalisa Urbano: ‘We defend nations, not tribes’: The United Nations and Statecraft in Somalia under trusteeship’, American Historical Association, New York, 3 January 2015.

Susanne Lachenicht: 4. September 2012, Centre for Area Studies, Leipzig, Workshop III: Atlantic History and Area Studies.

Susanne Lachenicht: 19. März 2013, Boston College, Vortrag: Negotiating Asylum in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

Susanne Lachenicht: 17. April 2013, Bayreuth, Ringvorlesung Diasporen, Einführung: Diasporas in the Past, Present and Future: an Introduction.

Susanne Lachenicht: 8. Mai 2013, Bayreuth, Ringvorlesung Diasporen, Vortrag: Diasporen als „service agents“ im frühneuzeitlichen Europa und der atlantischen Welt.

Susanne Lachenicht: 5. November 2013, Bonn, Columbus Day Lecture, Universität Bonn, Vortrag: Conquest, Expansion, Colonization. Risk and Risk Assessment in the Early Modern Atlantic World.

Achim v. Oppen: 3.12.2012, Bayreuth Academy: Betrachtungen zur Eröffnung der Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.

Achim v. Oppen: „Aufbruch in Afrika“. Opening Lecture für den „Lerntag Zukunft Afrika“, Münchner Volkshochschule, München (21.2.2014).

Achim v. Oppen: Vortrag „Afrika im Aufbruch“, Adam-Kraft-Gymnasium, Schwabach, (24.3.2014).

Achim v. Oppen: Eingeladen als Diskutant der Konferenz “Entangled Spaces in the Americas: Concepts and Case Studies”, Zentrum für Inter-Amerikanische Studien, Universität Bielefeld (11.-12.4.2014).

Achim v. Oppen (mit Arndt, S.): “Opening Presentation”, Panel 47: “The Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies and its current Project „Future Africa - Visions in Time”, VAD Tagung 2014 “Zukunft Afrika”, Universität Bayreuth (12.6.2014).

Achim v. Oppen: Bayreuth Academy Lecture Series “Future Africa and Beyond” Titel: “Histories of Future Africa: An Interested Synopsis of Researches at the Bayreuth Academy” Universität Bayreuth (4.12.2014).

Achim v. Oppen: “Zukunft Afrika: Visionen im Umbruch – Future Africa - Visions in Time” im Rahmen des Netzwerktreffens “Strengtening and Advancing the Area Studies in Germany”, gefördert vom BMBF, Bayreuth Academy (5.12.2014).