Yuworkzambia 
Examining Zambian-Yugoslav cooperation in independent Zambia, it is clear this was not taking place in a vacuum. While conducting research in Lusaka and elsewhere, we have been also trying to account for the ways in which Yugoslav-Zambian relations overlapped and intersected with the engagement of other countries in Zambia. Indeed, a common trope in oral …
Yuworkzambia Team Member Immanuel Harisch receives the 2023 Walter Markov Prize of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) for his outstanding dissertation entitled Great Hopes, False Promises. African Trade Unions in the World of Organized Labor. Institutions, Networks, and Mobilities during the Cold War 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on an extensive corpus of sources from trade union and party archives …
Read moreDr. Immanuel Harisch receives the 2023 Walter Markov Prize
Goran Musić and Immanuel Harisch presented the early findings from the research project at this year’s European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) taking place in Cologne between the 31 May and 3 June 2023. The event gathered 2000 participants from 80 countries under the theme “African Futures” presenting a great opportunity for meeting other colleagues …
Read moreYuWorkZambia at the ECAS Cologne and the University of Potsdam
During my research in Zambia, I had the privilege to visit and interview Wilted Phiri together with co-researchers Joy Phiri and Teckson Njovu. Wilted Phiri was one of the key “behind the scenes” cadres of the United National Independence Party (UNIP) and an important figure in the Southern African anticolonial movement of the 1960s and …
Read moreNon-Aligned Intelligence Exchanges: Interviewing Wilted Phiri
On 4 May 2023 our research team had the privilege to present the project in front of Zambian colleagues at the Seminar Series of the University of Zambia’s Department of Historical and Archaeological Studies, Lusaka. Immanuel Harisch, Joy Phiri and Teckson Njovu spoke about the general aims and the current progress of the research for …
Read moreYu-Zam Team presents research at the University of Zambia, Lusaka
March 17th, 2023, 14‒19:30 hDepartment of African StudiesSeminarraum 2Hof 5.1Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien Organizers:FWF Project: A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the YugoslavWorkforce in Zambia (Research platform “Transformations and Eastern Europe”)Research Team: Goran Musić, Immanuel Harisch, Rory Archer and Anna Calori (for further details, contact: goran.music@univie.ac.at) Program: 14:00 ‒15:30 Approaching Yugoslav …
Read moreWorkshop: Life-Work-Infrastructure Transformations in (Post)Colonial Southern Africa
Lecture by Duncan Money Monday, 20 March 2023, 6 PMDepartment of African StudiesSeminarraum 1Hof 5.1.Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Wien “Paradise for the proletariat” was the awe-struck assessment of one visitor to the mines in Central Africa in the 1950s. Miners drove Jaguar cars, sailed yachts, swam in Olympic-sized swimming pools, played polo and some even owned …
Read moreMining in Utopia? White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt