Hopkins
Keynote Address
Overview
Graduate students relate a few lessons learned under Professor Hopkins' tutelage, Joseph Inikori and Robin Law share memorable Hopkins moments, Dr. Gareth Austin speaks about "A.G. Hopkins and Markets in West African History", and Prof. Hopkins responds with gratitude and wit.
Africa in the Global Context
Overview
Chair- Catherine Boone
Carla Klehm- Regional Dynamics and Local Dialectics in the Indian Ocean Trade: An Archaeological Case Study from Botswana
Paul Lovejoy and Yacine Daddi Addoun- Commerce and Credit in Katsina in the Nineteenth Century
Cary F. Fraser- Reframing Freedom and Citizenship in the Black Atlantic: MLK Jr., Ghana's Independence, and the Shifting Terrain of History in the Atlantic World
Tosin Abiodun , presented: Paul Ilesanmi Akanmidu's paper on 'Forced Migration: The Dimension of African Dilemma in the 21st Century World History'
Ryan Groves Presented Chris S. Orngu's paper on 'Globalization, Imperialism and Economic Diplomacy: The African Experience'
Economics and Imperial Expansion
Overview
Chair: Gregory Maddox
Robin Law: Economic Factors in the Yoruba Wars of 1877-93
Ralph Austen and James Vaughn: The Territorialization of Empire: Britain's Moves Into India and Tropical Africa
Joseph Inikori: Economic Imperialism in West Africa: Great Britain and Senegambia in the Eighteenth Century
Ray E. Dumett: Anglo-French Commercial Rivalries, African Agency and Imperialism on the Gold Coast/Ivory Coast Frontier, 1880-1904
Globalisation and Decolonisation
Overview
Chair- Joseph Inikori
Trevor M. Simmons- The Coming of "Effective Independence": Imperialism, Nationalism,
and the Conquest of Everest in 1953
R. Joseph Parrott- Globalization, Decolonization and Cold War Africa: Competing Universals
in the International Debate Over Portuguese Imperialism, 1960-1969
Jonathan Hunt- The Anti-Imperialism of Globalization: The Case Study of the 1956 Suez
Crisis
MFon U. Ekpootu - The British Empire and the Policing of Women in Southern Nigeria
Globalisation in the West
Overview
Chair- Patrick Manning
David Conrad- Wolf Ladejinsky and American Globalization
Marc-William Palen- American Cosmopolitanism as British Conspiracy: The Controversy of Free Trade in Gilded Age America
Helen Pho- Richard Cobden, the Peace Movement, and Cosmopolitan Nationalism: A Study in Globalization
Robert Whitaker- Policing Globalization: The Imperial Origins of International Police Cooperation
Rethinking the British Empire
Overview
Chair: Ralph Austen
Daniel Wold: The Dominions in Imperial Historiography
Sundara Vadlamudi: British Expatriates in India (1946-7): Debates over Constitutional Status
Adam Paddock: Child Labor in Transition: Labor and Imperialism in Nigeria
Richard Roberts: The Unintended Consequences of Europe's Civilizing Mission in Africa
Jason Morgan: Decolonization and South Africa's Empire: Namibia's Role in South Africa's Withdrawal from the British Empire