PCF Talk #69 – Agenda Monthly Meeting – Hybrid
This is a hybrid event, please join in person, or via the zoom link below!
The Sea-ing Africa Project
09:00 - 09:15
By Costanza Francescini and John Hanna
Sea-ing Africa: Tracing Legacies and Engaging Future Promises of 'Big' Infrastructure Projects in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco. With a focus on Ghana and Morocco, the project Sea-ing Africa investigates the prominent place of infrastructure in the thinking about development in Africa.
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Keynote Lecture by Luca Beneventi
09:15 - 10:15
By Aya Engineering and Leiden University
The Western railway line of Ghana: the unexpected consequences of an infrastructure
Few concepts can disturb an engineer’s mind as much as that of the unexpected. The idea that the outcome of an infrastructural project is unpredictable is indeed alien to the ones that are designing, building and planning it. The aim of this interdisciplinary text, that engages anthropology, geography and geology in a co-analysis of an infrastructural project, is to convey the idea that, in the case of Ghana's Western Railway Line, the unexpectable is not only inherent to the project itself but has also created the conditions for the coming to existence of another, unforeseeable and possibly more successful infrastructure: gold mining.
10:15 - 10:30
Break
Working Session: The Anthropology of Infrastructure
10:30 - 11:00
Roundtable Discussion
11:00 - 12:00