Preliminary Programme as of 19 April 2021. Subject to changes.

Wednesday, 5th May 2021

16:45 – 17:00 (UTC+2) Workshop Opening

Kim Sebastian Todzi (University of Hamburg), Tristan Oestermann (Humboldt University Berlin), Deborah J. Neill (York University, Toronto): Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

17:00 – 19:00 (UTC+2) Panel I: Money and Markets
Chair: Tristan Oestermann (Humboldt University Berlin)

Emma Thomas (University of Michigan): “Entangled Economies: Bridewealth, Colonial Capitalism, and Gendering of Labor in German New Guinea”

Robin Frisch (University of Bayreuth): “The Colonial Myth of Barter. Money and German Colonialism in West Africa (late 19th century-1914)”

Holger Droessler (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): „Coconuts and Coercion: Colonial Capitalism in German Samoa”

Ana Carolina Schveitzer (Humboldt University Berlin): “Photography, Market and Colonialism: Ideas about Colonial Commodity”

Comment: Nina Berman (Arizona State University)

Thursday, 6th May 2021

12:00 – 14:00 (UTC+2) Panel II: Companies and the State
Chair: Kim Sebastian Todzi (University of Hamburg)

Nina Kleinöder (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): „Whose „safety“? – Business in the German „Schutzgebiete“ at the turn of the 19th/20th century”

Olisa Godson Muojama (University of Ibadan): “Dispossession and Repossession: The Dynamics of German Properties in Colonial Africa”

Matthew Fitzpatrick (Flinders University): “Population Policy and the Plantation Economy in German Samoa”

Comment: Bronwen Everill (University of Cambridge)

17:00 – 19:00 (UTC+2) Panel III: Infrastructure
Chair: Caroline Authaler (University of Bielefeld)

Monika Motylinska / Paul Sprute (Leibniz-Institut für Raumbezogene Sozialforschung (IRS)): „(Re)Constructing German Colonial Capitalism from its Margins“

Andreas Greiner (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC): „Tensions of Transport: Caravan Trade and Colonial Transformation in German East Africa”

Walter Gam Nkwi (University of Leiden): „Technologies of Labour Mobility during the Mandate in Cameroon Province: 1924-1945: German Capitalism in British Southern Cameroons and its Durability”

Sean Lawrence (University of California, Santa Cruz): “A Fertile Plain for Our Concern: The Konya Irrigation Project and monetary valuation of Anatolian rain, 1903-1913”

Comment: Lasse Heerten (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Friday, 7th May 2021

15:00 – 17:00 (UTC+2) Panel IV: Labor
Chair: Deborah J. Neill (York University)

Henry Kam Kah (University of Buea): “Coercion and Violence in German Labour Conscription in Cameroon”

Jonas Kreienbaum (University of Rostock): „A History of Violence. Railway Construction and local labourers in German South West Africa, 1903-1909”

William Blakemore Lyon (Humboldt University Berlin): “Italian Laborers in the Namib: Subcontractors, Trains and War in German Colonial Namibia”

Michael Rösser (University of Erfurt): “Tracing the Tracks – A Portrait of European Railway Employees in German East Africa”

Comment: Robert Heinze (University of Trier)

17:00 – 17:30 (UTC+2) Wrap-up