Africa and Global History

New Perspectives

16-19 April 2013
Universities of the Witwatersrand & Cape Town

The French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), Wits University and UCT are organising a week of encounters between historians of the first globalisation in the early modern period working in different areas. It is hoped that these encounters can act as a path towards wider historical projects around the early connections between Africa and the rest of the World from the 12th century onwards, not only with Europe but also the Americas, the Middle East and the whole Indian Ocean region.

Tuesday 16th April: Public lecture, Wits

14:00, Wiser Seminar Room

• Joan-Pau Rubiès
  (Universitat Popmpeu Fabrea)
  Travel Writing and the Origins of the Enlightenment
  Discussant: Dilip Menon (CISA, Wits)

Wednesday 17th April: Workshop UCT, Historical Studies Department / HUMA

13:00 – 16:00, Huma Seminar Room

New Perspective in Global History
Chair: Adrien Delmas (IFAS);

• Joan-Pau Rubiès
  (Universitat Pompeu Fabrea)
  Enlightenment, Cosmopolitanism and Global History
  Discussant: Nigel Penn (UCT)
• Ashley Millar
  (UCT)
  Connecting Global Histories: Economic, Cultural and Intellectual Approaches to China and the European Enlightenment
  Discussant: Adrien Delmas (IFAS)

Friday 19th April: Roundtable UCT

Academic Training in Connected History: Ways Forward