Imperial Obsessions: David Livingstone, Africa and world history: a life and legacy reconsidered.

19th 21st April 2013 in Livingstone, Zambia.

The National Museums Board of Zambia

Conference Programme Likonganelo Conference Hall Wasawange Lodge

Friday 19th April Day One 8.00am Registration opens 8.30-9.00am Arrival of Delegates and Invited Guests 9.-10.00 am Opening of the Conference

Opening Keynote Address HRH Senior Chieftainess Nkomeshya Mukamambo II 10-11.00am KEYNOTE LECTURE ONE

Mr Tim Jeal (author, Livingstone, revised & extended edn 2013, Yale UP) David Livingstone: A contradictory hero 11-11.30am Coffee Break 11.30-1.00pm SESSION ONE Africa and Early Encounters

Chair: Prof Phiri (UNZA) Dr Gary Clendennen (Kyoto Uni, retired): The Child is the Father of the Man: Livingstones visit to the Shoshong Hills, 1842 Dr Walima Kalusa (UNZA) Strange Bedfellows: David Livingstone, Sekeletu and the Trans-African Expedition, 1853-56 Page 1 of 5 http://livingstone2013.net/conference-programme/

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1-2.30 LUNCH 2.30- 4.00pm SESSION TWO Hidden Histories

Chair: Mr Flexon Mizinga (Executive Secretary, National Museums Board, Zambia) Ms Julie Davidson (author): In search of Mrs Livingstone: Silent partner; forgotten wife Mr Sybren Renema (Artist & writer, Netherlands): You took the Part, that once was my heart: the Livingstone trees and memorialisation 4-.4.30pm Tea Break SESSION THREE : - Livingstone, Religion and Education 4.30-6.00pm Chair: Prof John Mackenzie (Emeritus Professor, University of Lancaster) Prof Brian Stanley (Edinburgh University): 'Livingstone's dialogue with the rainmaker and the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment' Prof Ackson Kanduza (Open University of Zambia): The Livingstone Teachers training college

Saturday April 20th Day Two 9.30-11am SESSION FOUR A: Livingstone, Anti-Slavery and the Imperial Project Chair: Dr Walima Kalusa (UNZA) Mr Jonas Gjers (LSE): British anti-slave trade policy and rethinking the annexation of East Africa, 1884-1896 Ms Christine Whyte (ETH University, Zrich) A clash of civilizing missions? The conflict over child wards in Freetown, 1853.

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SESSION FOUR B: Museums, Memorialisation and Remembering (Upper Conference Room) Chair: Prof Ackson Kanduza (Open University of Zambia) Dr Friday Mufuzi (Acting Director, Lusaka Museum) 'The Livingstone Museum and the memorialisation of David Livingstone in colonial and post-colonial Zambia' Dr Sarah Worden (National Museum of Scotland) 'Exhibiting Livingstone in the National Museum of Scotland: 1913-2013' Dr Sanda Kocivar (Museum of Croatia): Remembering Croats in Stanleys Congo Expeditions in the 1880s 11-11.30 Tea Break 11.30-1.00pm SESSION FIVE : Ideologies of Imperialism Chair: Dr Giacomo Macola (Univeristy of Kent) Prof Stacey Sommerdyk (University of Witwatersrand): Imagining Africa through the Colonial Gaze Prof Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi (University of Witwatersrand): Sofonia Poonyane and the Researches of Isaac Schapera in Colonial Botswana Dr Joel Quirk (University of Witwatersrand): Humanitarianism as Paternalism: The History and Legacies of Anti-Slavery Activism in Africa

1-2.00pm LUNCH 2.00-3.30 SESSION SIX Livingstone, Travel Writing and Journalism Chair: Dr Justin Livingstone (Glasgow University) Dr Leila Koivunen (University of Turku, Finland): Dr Livingstone I presume? Visualised: the birth and death of an iconic scene Dr Brian Murray (Cambridge University): Stanleys Livingstone: an Anglo-Saxon man of feeling 4.-4.30pm Tea Break Page 3 of 5
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4.30-6.00pm SESSION SEVEN Livingstones Afterlife and his Impact on Understandings of British Imperialism in Africa Chair: Prof Stacey Sommerdyk (University of the Witswatersrand) Dr Joanna Lewis (LSE): The empire of sentiment: David Livingstones 1874 funeral and Africa at the heart of the nation Dr Justin Livingstone (Glasgow University) Livingstone, Imperial History, and Postcolonialism: An Afterlife in Biography, Fiction and Drama 6.-7.00pm KEYNOTE LECTURE TWO Professor (Emeritus) John Mackenzie David Livingstone: Prophet or Patron Saint of Empire in Africa? 7.30pm Formal Conference Dinner (Smart Casual)

Sunday 21st April Day Three 9.30-11am KEYNOTE LECTURE THREE Professor Keith Hart and Mr Sean Maliehe (University of Pretoria) Africa in the 21ST century: Making a Human Economy 11.-11.30 Tea Break 11.30-1pm SESSION SEVEN: Inspirational Lives and African Challenges: Livingstone in the Contemporary Chair: Dr Joanna Lewis (LSE) Father Katete Jackson Jones (Priest and Director, Anglican Street Children Programm ) Combatting child poverty and slavery Zambian initiatives Mr Ben de Ponti (Netherlands) Into the heart of Nyassaland: an exploration by foot and by boat of David Livingstones 1861 and 1863 expeditions into Malawi. 1-2.00pm LUNCH Page 4 of 5
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2.-3.30pm SESSION EIGHT: The Future of the African Past: History in Zambia Today Prof Phiri (UNZA): The role and contribution of history to the development of Zambia. Dr Francis B Musonda (UNZA): The role of archaeology to historical studies. Ms Dorothy Mwansa (UNZA): tbc Mr Flexon Mizinga (National Museums Board of Zambia): Reflections and closing remarks 3.30pm Tea and goodbye

Alongside Saturday 20th April: 2-6pm Upper Conference Room RESEARCH WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATES AND NEW SCHOLARS
New Researchers Workshop One: 2-3.30pm Chair: Dr Brian Murray (Cambridge University) Mr Jarek Zaba (LSE): Britains recognition of Leopolds Congo Ms Rosie Coffey (LSE) : Mission Control to Major Tom: The British press, British public opinion and the re-moralisation of Britains Africa policy at the end of empire? The case of the Blantyre riot Mrs Yvonne Kambombe (UNZA) Discussant 3.30-4.30pm Tea Break New Researchers Workshop Two: 4.30-6pm Upper Conference Room Chair: Dr Joel Quirk (University of the Witswatersrand) Mr Gary Blank (LSE): The New Imperialism of Humanitarian Aid in Post-colonial Africa: Assessing British Intervention in the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) Mr Benedict Greening (LSE): The last hangings on British soil: the Royal Prerogative and the judicial killings of Erskine Burrows and Larry Tacklyn in Bermuda. Mrs Ivy Chimfwembe (UNZA)

4.00. Sunset River Cruise (depart Wasawange for those delegates signed up) Page 5 of 5
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