Jan-Bart Gewald, Maaike Rozema and Walker Swindell will be participating in the Historical Association of South Africa (HASA) Biennial Conference at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, 18-20 June 2025.

Jan-Bart Gewald has the honour of doing the keynote lecture to open the conference titled, "Kimberley my nou: The Complex Historiography of a Mining Town."  Furthermore, he will be presenting a paper later in the conference titled "Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa 1865-1900."

Maaike Rozema will be presenting her paper titled, "Beasts of Burden, Beasts of Thought: Animal Lives in Galton's Imperial Imagination."

Walker Swindell will be presenting a paper he has worked on along with Jan-Bart Gewald and John Kegel titled, "From Diamonds to Dust: The Rise of the South African Empire, 1870-1960."