MIASA Public Lecture Series
As part of the MIASA Public Lecture Series, the lecture "The Kingdom of Mealies - Agriculture, rural reform, and the "race question" in South Africa, c. 1900-1940s" will take place. The talk will be given by Julia Tischler on March 29, 2022 (3:00 pm - 4:30 pm (UTC). She is Associate Professor of African History in Basel, Switzerland, and currently a Fellow at MIASA. Focusing on the history of Southern Africa, she has published on issues of development, settler colonialism, environmental history, race, and agriculture. In this talk, she will examine agricultural education as a lens through which to analyze the ways in which the "agrarian question" and the "racial question" were intertwined. She focuses on South Africa, an extreme example of rapid agricultural change and state racism that offers important insights into simultaneous global transformations.
Please register in advance for this lecture:
https://uni-freiburg.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Mudeqspj0jGtBd8LqCQfIA5F0buAUasNV9
https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/inzentim/miasa.pdf