PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL THE 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR.

“Tanzania and the Global History of Nineteenth-Century East Africa”

Emma Hunter, University of Edinburg

This workshop is open to the public. There is no pre-circulated paper for this workshop. To attend, RSVP by email to Rob Konkel at [email protected]. A light lunch will be provided.

Dr. Emma Hunter is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Edinburgh. Hunter is a historian of Africa in a global context with particular interests in intellectual history and the history of political thought, print culture and the history of nationalism and decolonization. She grew up in Edinburgh then studied and taught in Cambridge before returning to Edinburgh and joining the School of History, Classics and Archaeology in January 2015. From 2016-2018, Hunter was Postgraduate Director for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. She co-founded the Global and Transnational History Research Group in 2015 and became founding co-director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History in January 2019.Hunter is principal investigator for a Leverhulme-funded project ‘Another World? East Africa and the Global 1960s’ with Daniel Branch and Gerard McCann which began in 2018 and will run until 2022.

Co-Sponsored by:

African History Workshop