Past Event

Cancelled today!! THE INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN STUDIES PRESENTS

Diamond Mobility and Imperial Authority from Kimberley, South Africa to Houndsditch, U.K.

WITH

Dr. Danielle Kinsey, Department of History, Carleton University

Danielle Kinsey is an assistant professor in the Department of History and Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. She specializes in the history of the British empire, women and gender, and imperial trade networks. Her current book project is on the history of the diamond trade in the nineteenth century, focusing in particular on ideas of race in the construction of imperial authority, the meaning of diamonds in Britain, and mining labor diasporas in a global context.

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