Title: Globalising and Localising Africa’s Cold War: The Katangese Gendarmes and Conflict in Central Africa, 1960-1997
Lecturer: Miles Larmer (Professor of African History at the University of Oxford)
Chairperson: Huajie Jiang (Research Fellow of Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, East China Normal University)
Date: 1 pm, April 23th (Tuesday), 2019
Venue: Room 3102, Building of School of Humanities, Minhang Campus, ECNU
Sponsor: Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, ECNU
Abstract of the Lecture:
Historians of Africa have conducted innovative research that has both globalised and localised the continent’s experience in the Cold War. Prof Miles Larmer will outline a case study of the Katangese gendarmes, explaining the specific trajectory of a military force which fought on both sides in the global ideological battle but which, it will be argued, they fought for primarily local, nationalistic ends.
Brief Introduction of the Lecturer:
Miles Larmer is a Professor of African History at the University of Oxford. He has published widely on the political and social history of central and southern Africa. His most recent book, co-authored with Erik Kennes, is The Katangese Gendarmes and War in Central Africa: Fighting their way home (2016).
