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Dr. Immanuel Harisch receives the 2023 Walter Markov Prize

22/08/2023 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

YuWorkZambia at the ECAS Cologne and the University of Potsdam

12/06/2023 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

Yu-Zam Team presents research at the University of Zambia, Lusaka

12/06/202315/05/2023 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

Workshop: Life-Work-Infrastructure Transformations in (Post)Colonial Southern Africa

20/03/202302/03/2023 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

Mining in Utopia? White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt

02/03/202302/03/2023 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

Participation at the ASEEES Convention (Chicago, 10-13 November 2022)

06/12/2022 by Yuworkzambia

Goran Musić and Anna Calori participated at the recent Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Convention, held between 10-13 November 2022 in Chicago. Together with Thuc Linh Nguyen Vu (University of Vienna) and David Tompkins (Carleton College) they presented their current research on a panel entitled “Fragile Connections? (New) Institutional Variations in Global …

Participation at Microsocialism: Yugoslav Comparisons (Pula, 27-28 October 2022)

09/11/2022 by Yuworkzambia

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 …

30 Month Postdoc Researcher in Social History of Southern Africa

15/06/202215/06/2022 by Yuworkzambia

The research project ‘A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia’ aims to break new ground in labour history, development history, and critical race studies by connecting two domains that social history still separates, postcolonial Africa and state socialist Europe. As a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, …