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Lunch Talk: Colonial Runaways and Murderers, Microhistory and Biography, Historians and Readers

February 1, 2019 @ 12:15 - 14:00

Nigel Penn is Professor at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Cape Town. His books “Rogues, Rebels and Runaways” and “Murderers, Miscreants and Mutineers” on Cape Colony characters of the 18th and 19th century have attracted a wide readership and received much praise beyond the academic frame. In conversation with Tanja Hammel (University of Zurich) who recently completed her PhD about the scientist Mary Elizabeth Barber in the Cape Colony, and Dag Henrichsen (BAB) we reflect about topics and issues which go beyond a particular murder and murderer and include questions with regard to historical biographical writing and a wider readership (in southern Africa).

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Date:
February 1, 2019
Time:
12:15 - 14:00
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Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Phone
+41 61 228 93 33
Email
bab@baslerafrika.ch
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Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Klosterberg 23
Basel, 4051 Switzerland
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Phone
+41 61 228 93 33
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