For a Comparative History of African Urban Female Professions (Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania and Ghana), 1919-1970
Creative Methodologies: videos and audio excerpts of the conference
Elena Vezzadini – Welcome and presentation of the project
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Noor Nieftagodien, South Africa, Social History and the Recovery of Women’s Experiences in History
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Akosua Darkwah – The river of life as an interview method
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Danielle van den Heuvel – What can the early modern do for you? Uncovering Ephemeral Activities on Everyday City Life using the Snapshot Method
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Darren Newbury – Historical Photographs and Photographic Histories: Methodological Reflections on Research in Photographic Archives of Africa
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Felix Meier zu Selhausen – Gender Inequality and Urban Elite Formation: New Insights from Parish Registers in British colonial Africa
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Filipa Ribeiro da Silva – Searching for African Women’s Urban Occupations in Colonial Censuses: Preliminary Reflections and Comparisons
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Tim Gibbs – The Widows of Warwick Junction Pavement Markets (Durban, South Africa): Studying Commercial Networks in a Time of Crisis
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Domenico Cristofaro – Creative Mobilities: Introductory Thoughts on Migration, Infrastructure Development and Market Traders in Colonial Northern Ghana
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Salvatory S. Nyanto – Women, Brewing and Urban Professionalism in Twentieth-Century Tabora, Western Tanzania, 1930-1970
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Alma Simba – Women’s Resistance and Informal Labour in Dar es Salaam, 1950-1985
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Daniel Worku Kebede – PhD ERC Research Project: A History of Women in the Informal Sectors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1886 -1991): the Case of Weavers and Potters
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Juliet Tiwaah Adu Bohaen – Wayside Female Dressmakers: A Historical Analysis of Cultural, Economic and Social Impacts of Dressmaking in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1919-1970
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Emma Hunter – Swahili Language Newspapers and the History of Urban Working Women in Mid-twentieth-century Tanzania
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Elara Bertho – Can Literature Rescue History? Paradoxes in Subalterns’ Voices (Guinea, 1970s)
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Heather Sharkey – “The Guide to Modern Cooking”: Tracing the History of Sudanese Women’s Labor through a Home Economics Textbook
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Mariam Sharif – The history of nursing: education, practices, work and political participation in Sudan from 1899-1970
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Tirsit Sahledengil, Pierre Guidi – Writing an Ethiopian Midwife Biography in Crossing Private Archives and Interviews
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Anne Hugon, Documenting the History of Birth Attendants versus Documenting the History of Registered Midwives in the Gold Coast/Ghana: some Preliminary Reflections on Sources
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Elena Vezzadini – Only Shadows of Traces: Studying Hairdressers and Estheticians in Colonial and Early Colonial Sudan