03-AFR-2103.SE02 Topics and Debates in African Economic History

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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar

Event type: Seminar

Org-unit: 03-African Studies

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Hours per week: 2

Language of instruction: English

Official course description:
African economic history is experiencing a resurgence. This seminar explores current topics and debates in the economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1500-2010. Methodologically, the seminar invites students to assess critically both qualitative and quantitative empirical contributions to the “new economic history of Africa”.

Readings:
Introductory reading:
Hillbom, Ellen, and Erik Green. An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Transformations and Political Changes. Palgrave, 2019. Austen, Ralph A. African economic history: Internal development and external dependency. James Currey, 1987.

Appointments
Date From To Room Instructors
1 Mon, 14. Oct. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
2 Mon, 21. Oct. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
3 Mon, 28. Oct. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
4 Mon, 4. Nov. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
5 Mon, 11. Nov. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
6 Mon, 18. Nov. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
7 Mon, 25. Nov. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
8 Mon, 9. Dec. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
9 Mon, 16. Dec. 2019 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
10 Mon, 6. Jan. 2020 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
11 Mon, 13. Jan. 2020 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
12 Mon, 20. Jan. 2020 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
13 Mon, 27. Jan. 2020 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
14 Mon, 3. Feb. 2020 09:15 10:45 Seminarraum R 5216 Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Contained in modules
Module
03-AFR-2103 Society and Economy in Africa (WiSe 2019/20)
06-008-GS-0910 Regions in Globalisation Processes: Africa and the Near East II (WiSe 2019/20, WiSe 2019/20)
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Instructors
Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar