African Economic Development Conference
Date and Time
Location
"African Economic Development Conference: Past, Present, and Future"
WAHE will hold its inaugural conference on April 17 and 18, 2015. The interdisciplinary conference will bring together top scholars who study Africa from the perspectives of history, economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. This conference is a follow-up to a similar conference held in Accra, Ghana, in the summer of 2010, which examined African poverty over the longue durée. Highly successful, the 2010 conference resulted in an edited volume on African Development in Historical Perspective, which will be launched during the April 2015 conference. WAHE hopes that this second meeting will generate similar intellectual energy, debate and cross-disciplinary discussion. All sessions, including the keynote, are open to the public. There is no registration for the conference. For full agenda please see this link.
Contact:
Sarah Banse
sarahbanse@wcfia.harvard.edu
Conveners:
Emmanuel Akyeampong, Faculty Associate. Professor of History, Department of History; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Robert H. Bates, Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Department of Government; Professor of African and African American Studies, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Nathan Nunn, Faculty Associate. Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University.
James Robinson, Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. David Florence Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.