Lotte Hughes is an historian of Africa, empire and postcolonial issues, who specialises in Kenya. She is currently the Principal Investigator of an ESRC funded collaborative project, ‘Cultural Rights and Kenya’s New Constitution’, based at The Open University (UK). Lotte previously led the AHRC-funded research project ‘Managing Heritage, Building Peace: Museums, memorialisation and the uses of memory in Kenya’ (2008-11). This resulted in the book Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya, co-authored with Annie E. Coombes and Karega-Munene (I.B. Tauris, 2014). Her earlier books include Moving the Maasai: A Colonial Misadventure (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Environment and Empire, co-authored with William Beinart (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Sessions auxquelles Dr Lotte Hughes participe
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9:00
Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
3 heures 30 minutes,
9:00
- 12:30
Concordia, John Molson School of Business Building (MB) - MB S1.435
Regular session
Dr Zoe Cormack, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)
Dr Harriet Deacon, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, The Open University, UK (Participant.e)
Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Modérateur.rice)
[Withdrawn] Alternative Rites of Passage as an Appropriation of Heritage
30 minutes,
9:00
- 9:30
Partie de:
Subversion and Heritage in Contemporary Africa
Paper
Dr Lotte Hughes, The Open University, Department of History, United Kingdom (Participant.e)