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Day 1 – 18 September at 14:30
Jan-Bart Gewald gives a lecture:
“Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1865–1879”
09:30 — Welcome & Introduction
Giacomo Macola, Karin Pallaver, Massimo Zaccaria
Session I: Consumers, Crafts, and Global Connections in the 18th Century
Chair: Karin Pallaver
10:00 — “A Changeable Color: African Consumer Demand and the Trade in Venetian Beads”
Anne Ruderman, London School of Economics
10:45 — Coffee Break
11:15 — “‘Not by Choice, but by Necessity’. African Demand and the Shaping of the Venetian Glass Bead Industry in the 18th Century”
Pierre Niccolò Sofia, University of Padua
12:00 — “An Umbrella Model: South Asian Textiles and Cowries in the Early Modern Atlantic Trade”
Kazuo Kobayashi, Waseda University
13:00 — Lunch
Session II: Markets, Labour and Encounters in the 19th Century
Chair: Massimo Zaccaria
14:30 — “Arms and the Men: Firearms and Labour in the Context of the Diamond Fields of South Africa, 1865–1879”
Jan-Bart Gewald, University of Leiden
15:15 — “Dutch Traders in the Lower Congo. A History of Failures and Successes in the Late Precolonial Period”
John Kegel, African Studies Center, Leiden, and Mariella Terzoli, Sciences Po, Paris
16:00 — Coffee Break
16:30 — “Production, Logistics, and Demand of Venetian Glass Beads in the 19th Century: A Focus on Northeast Africa”
Alessandro De Cola, University of Bologna and University of Vienna
17:15 — “Encountering Local Markets: Italian Expeditions and Afro-Asian Trade Networks in the Horn of Africa and Yemen in the 1870s”
Sara Zanotta, University of Torino
18:00 — Conclusion
20:00 — Dinner
Location: Ristorante La Traviata, via Urbana 5/c
Session III: Textiles, Markets and Consumer Cultures across East Africa and the Indian Ocean
Chair: Alessandro De Cola
10:00 — “Italian Textiles in Eritrea: Meeting the Demands of a Challenging Market (19th–20th Centuries)”
Massimo Zaccaria, University of Pavia
10:45 — “Italy and the Textile Market of the Horn of Africa, 1880s–1920s”
Giorgio Tosco, Trier University
11:30 — Coffee Break
12:00 — “Merekani Markets: Indian Ocean Africa, Consumer Culture, and the Fabric of Global Commerce, 1840–1940”
Jeremy Prestholdt, University of California
13:00 — Lunch
Session IV: From Precolonial Trade to Colonial Economies
Chair: Giacomo Macola
14:30 — “The Arms Trade in (Pre-)Colonial Tanzania: Power, Privilege, and Dependency (1850–1919)”
Felix Brahm, Universität Münster
15:15 — “The History of Firearms among the Acholi of Uganda, 1850–2000”
Patrick Otim, Bates College (online)
16:00 — Coffee Break
16:45 — Concluding Remarks
Gareth Austin, University of Cambridge
17:30 — Conclusion & Wrap-up
19:30 — Dinner
Location: Trattoria Trebbi, via Solferino 40
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