Guest Lecture: Andrew Denning "Infrastructure Empires: Roads, Automobiles, and the Colonial State in Interwar Africa"

This lecture is FREE and open to the public.  

Andrew Denning, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Kansas, will be giving a talk from his upcoming book project Automotive Empire: Cars, Roads, and the Mobilization of Eurafrica, 1900-1945, which examines how European powers developed a distinct form of "automotive empire" in Africa between 1900 and 1945 that departed from previous forms of maritime and railroad empire. The technological and infrastructural imperatives of motor vehicles and roads in Africa shaped the administration of empire, social relations between colonizer and colonized, and the culture of the automobile back in Europe.

Professor Denning is also the author of Skiing into Modernity: A Cultural and Environmental History (U. of California Press, 2015) and "'Life is Movement, Movement is Life!': Mobility Politics and the Circulatory State in Nazi Germany"  in the American Historical Review (forthcoming)

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2018 / HUMN 1B80 / 5PM

Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 5:00pm to 6:30pm

Event Type

Lecture/Presentation

Interests

Diversity & Inclusion, Education, Environment & Sustainability, International & Global Affairs

Audience

Students, Faculty, General Public, Graduate Students, Staff, Postdoc

College, School & Unit

Arts & Sciences

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History
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