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 …
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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
Goran Musić and Rory Archer participated at a project conference on the topic “Microsocialism: Yugoslav Comparisons” at the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism, University of Pula, Croatia on 27-28 October 2022. Goran presented ongoing research about Yugoslav selfmanaging socialism in worker communities in Zambia (with a presentation delivered in Serbo-Croatian (Samoupravljanje u …
Read moreParticipation at Microsocialism: Yugoslav Comparisons (Pula, 27-28 October 2022)