News and Events


News and events related to the project will be announced regularly.

Book Launch Event: Jodie Yuzhou Sun, “Brotherly Strangers: Kenya’s & Zambia’s Relations with China 1949-2019”

On January 31st, 2024, we had the privilege of promoting Jodie Yuzhou Sun’s book “Brothe…

International Conference CfP: The Business of Worldmaking: New Perspectives on Liminal Actors in Postcolonial Development Cooperation

Koper, Slovenia, 19-20 September 2024 Governments in Africa, Asia and South America, most of which a…

Project panels at the 2023 ASEEES annual convention (Philadelphia, 30 November-3 December 2023)

For the 2023 annual convention of ASEEES (Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studie…

YuWorkZambia Lusaka Team Poster Campaign

The Lusaka-based part of the research team had a poster campaign around different areas of the town.…

“1970: The Year of the Yugoslavs”. Locating Zambian-Yugoslav cooperation in the British Archives

Examining Zambian-Yugoslav cooperation in independent Zambia, it is clear this was not taking place …