Deadline Call for papers: CART V Muskets to Nokias: Towards a History of Consumption, Migration, and Power in Central Africa, 1500 – 1973

Beginning in 2005, the research programme, From Muskets to Nokias: Technology, Consumption and Social Change in Central Africa from Pre-Colonial Times to the Present (Leiden University and the African Studies Centre, Leiden), has hosted and facilitated the four Central African Research Themes (CART) conferences held in the Netherlands and Zambia. The conferences highlighted research being carried out by researchers associated with the programme, and provided a forum within which researchers could debate and discuss their findings and ongoing research intentions. Seven years on, the programme is drawing to a close and will be hosting a final conference in Leiden on 28^th and 29^th November 2013, in which the many and varied research endeavours of researchers associated with the programme will be presented and an attempt will be made to provide a preliminary synthesis of the programme’s findings.

More information and Call for papers

Conference organizers: Jan-Bart Gewald, Robert Ross & Maike Lolkema

Abstracts of no more than 800 words are to be sent to the organisers by 15^th June 2013.  cartvleiden@gmail.com

Participants will be notified of their participation by 1^st July 2013.

Travel and accommodation fares will be covered for selected participants.

As with the previous CART conferences, a selection will be made of the papers presented, for publication in an edited volume.

Information: cartvleiden@gmail.com