Videos of panelists from the 2011 conference in honor of A.G. Hopkins: Africa, Empire and Globalization.

Panel: Rethinking the British Empire

Panelists:
Chair: Ralph Austen
Daniel Wold: The Dominions in Imperial Historiography
Sundara Vadlamudi: British Expatriates in India (1946-7): Debates over Constitutional Status
Adam Paddock: Child Labor in Transition: Labor and Imperialism in Nigeria
Richard Roberts: The Unintended Consequences of Europe’s Civilizing Mission in Africa
Jason Morgan: Decolonization and South Africa's Empire: Namibia's Role in South Africa's Withdrawal from the British Empire

Daniel Wold: 0:11
Sundara Vadlamudi: 12:31
Adam Paddock: 24:53
Richard Roberts: 36:45
Jason Morgan: 47:50
Q&A: 1:00:20

Panel: Africa in the Global Context

Panelists:
Chair- Catherine Boone
Carla Klehm- Regional Dynamics and Local Dialectics in the Indian Ocean Trade: An Archaeological Case Study from Botswana
Paul Lovejoy and Yacine Daddi Addoun- Commerce and Credit in Katsina in the Nineteenth Century
Cary F. Fraser- Reframing Freedom and Citizenship in the Black Atlantic: MLK Jr., Ghana’s Independence, and the Shifting Terrain of History in the Atlantic World
Tosin Abiodun , presented: Paul Ilesanmi Akanmidu’s paper on ‘Forced Migration: The Dimension of African Dilemma in the 21st Century World History’
Ryan Groves Presented Chris S. Orngu’s paper on ‘Globalization, Imperialism and Economic Diplomacy: The African Experience’

Carla Klehm: 00:16
Paul Lovejoy: 14:07
Cary F. Fraser: 24:28
Tosin Abiodun: 38:53
Ryan Groves: 46:20
Q&A: 58:04

Panel: Globalisation in the West

Panelists:
Chair- Patrick Manning
David Conrad- Wolf Ladejinsky and American Globalization
Marc-William Palen- American Cosmopolitanism as British Conspiracy: The Controversy of Free Trade in Gilded Age America
Helen Pho- Richard Cobden, the Peace Movement, and Cosmopolitan Nationalism: A Study in Globalization
Robert Whitaker- Policing Globalization: The Imperial Origins of International Police Cooperation

David Conrad: 1:07
Marc-William Palen: 13:11
1st Q&A: 34:02
Helen Pho: 42:38
Robert Whitaker: 56:28 -- “Roast” of Dr. Hopkins; 1:00:45 - paper presentation
2nd Q&A: 1:09:44

Panel: Globalisation and Decolonisation

Panelists:
Chair- Joseph Inikori
Trevor M. Simmons- The Coming of “Effective Independence”: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Conquest of Everest in 1953
R. Joseph Parrott- Globalization, Decolonization and Cold War Africa: Competing Universals in thInternational Debate Over Portuguese Imperialism, 1960-1969
Jonathan Hunt- The Anti-Imperialism of Globalization: The Case Study of the 1956 SuezCrisis
MFon U. Ekpootu - The British Empire and the Policing of Women in Southern Nigeria

Trevor M. Simmons: 0:10
R. Joseph Parrott: 19:45
Jonathan Hunt: 36:33
MFon U. Ekpootu: 51:45