Dear all,

Please join us this Friday afternoon for a workshop and lecture on West African History featuring Professor Alexander Keese.

Alexander Keese is a professor of African history at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He published the books Living with Ambiguity: Integrating an African Elite in French and Portuguese Africa, 1930–1961 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2007) and Ethnicity and the colonial state: finding & representing group identifications in coastal West African and global perspective (1850–1960) (Leiden: Brill, 2016), and is the author of 27 articles in international, peer-reviewed journals, including on the history of decolonisation, ethnic conflict and forced labour in West and Central Africa.

Workshop:
Title: "Between 'free' and 'forced' labour: the weight of labour history in West Africa from colonisation to the first postcolonial decades (1880–1980)"
Date: May 3 (Friday)
Time: 12:00-14:00
Venue: Building 14, Room 204
Lunch will be provided for pre-registered attendees. (Google Form link below)
Lecture:

Title: "Why does nationalist xenophobia beat ethnic sentiment in early postcolonial Africa? Lessons for identities in historical research"
Date: May 3 (Friday)
Time: 14:00-16:00
Venue: Asia Center Samik Hall
Both events are jointly hosted by Seoul National University's Department of History and the Asia-Africa Center.



Please RSVP via the following Google Forms.



https://forms.gle/A3m1eSyyTFy8a6Lz6



Feel free to email any questions to sungyupkim@snu.ac.kr

We hope to see you on Friday!