Beyond Françafrique:
France outside of its traditional sphere of African influence (19th-21st centuries)
Park Building, University of Portsmouth, 22 February 2017
Convenors: Dr Anna Konieczna (University of Paris-Est Créteil), Prof. Tony Chafer (University of Portsmouth)
ITINERARY
1.00 Welcome
| Panel I. Outside of the French Empire 1.15-2.45 |
Discussant: Ed Naylor (University of Portsmouth)
Jakob ZOLLMANN (Dr, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung)
Witnesses to Competition or Participant Observers? French Missionaries in the Colonial Border Area of Angola and German Southwest Africa, ca. 1880 to 1919
Thomas Sharp (Oxford Brookes), A Trans-Imperial Decolonization: France and Francophone Africans in British West Africa, 1952-1964
Alexandra Reza (University of Oxford), Présence Africaine and the struggle against colonialism in the Portuguese African colonies, 1953-1968
COFFEE BREAK 2.45-3.00
| Panel II. Levers of influence 3.00-4.30 |
Discussant: Andrew Smith (UCL, London)
Roel VAN DER VELDE (Univeristy of Portsmouth)
Procedures and practices of French arms trade to South Africa, 1955-1965
Melissa K BYRNES (Associate Professor, Southwestern University)
Passing the Torch on the Civilizing Mission: French Hopes for the Portuguese Empire in the 1960s –
Frank Gerits (University of Amsterdam), French Cultural Diplomacy in the Ideological Scramble for Africa (1953-1963)
COFFEE BREAK 4.30-4.45
| Panel III. Enlarging the pré carré 4.45-6.15 |
Discussant: Prof. Tony Chafer
Anna KONIECZNA (Paris-Est Creteil), French foreign policy in the non-French speaking Africa under Charles de Gaulle
Gaia LOTT (Université de Florence)
La France, le Rwanda et le Burundi dans les années 1970
Nathaniel K. POWELL (Graduate Institute in Geneva)
France’s Cold War in Zaire, 1974-1979
No registration fee, but please notify Tony Chafer [tony.chafer@port.ac.uk] if you plan to attend.