Important Dates
Digital Workshop: "The Economic History of Poverty in Africa"
2021-07-08 12:00 to 18:00
Online
Introductory digital Workshop of the DAAD Guest Professorship "African Economic History" at Bayreuth University
Programme
12:00
"The rise of African Economic History and the Bayreuth initiative. An introduction."
Jan-Otmar Hesse (Bayreuth)
12:30
Panel discussion: "New developments in African Economic History – a field on the rise?"
Interventions:
Gareth Austin (Cambridge/UK), Joel Glasman (Bayreuth), as well as the DAAD Guest Professors: Grietjie Verhoef (Johannesburg/South Africa); George Bob- Milliar (Kumasi/Ghana); Morten Jerven (NMBU/Norway); and Ayodeji Olukoju
(Lagos/Nigeria)
14:00
Lunch-Break
15:00
"A History of the Construction of the Poverty Trap in Northern Ghana"
Lecture by George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi/Ghana; 1st Guest Professor at Bayreuth University)
Discussion
16:00
"Migration and the Production of Informal Economies in the Gold Coast"
Lecture by Mariama Marciana Kuusaana (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi/Ghana)
Discussion
18:00
"Virtual Biergarten"
| 12:00 | "The rise of African Economic History and the Bayreuth initiative. An introduction." |
| 12:30 | Panel discussion: "New developments in African Economic History – a field on the rise?" |
| 14:00 | Lunch-Break |
| 15:00 | "A History of the Construction of the Poverty Trap in Northern Ghana" |
| 16:00 | "Migration and the Production of Informal Economies in the Gold Coast" |
| 18:00 | Virtual Biergarten |