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SUMMARY:Debating the rise and fall of the first East African Community in 
 East Africa’s public sphere\, 1960s-1970s - Dr Emma Hunter (Senior Lectu
 rer\, African History\, University of Edinburgh)
DTSTART:20181114T171500Z
DTEND:20181114T183000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the ways in which cosmopolitan and educate
 d elites in East Africa imagined and debated regional integration\, naviga
 ting the tensions between national sovereignty and independent statehood a
 nd wider processes of regional political and economic integration. The fir
 st East African Community has often been portrayed as a top-down\, technoc
 ratic project with little purchase in the wider public sphere. Established
  following the failure of more ambitious plans for a regional federation\,
  it had collapsed in acrimony by the late 1970s. Drawing on East African p
 ress\, the paper asks: Was regional unity only ever attractive to politica
 l elites or was it a powerful idea amongst a wider section of ‘civil soc
 iety’? Why did this vision of the future gain such apparent traction in 
 the early 1960s\, and what remained of such enthusiasm by the 1970s? \n\nA
 BOUT THE SPEAKER : Emma Hunter is Senior Lecturer in African History at th
 e University of Edinburgh\, and Quentin Skinner Fellow 2018-19.\n\nABOUT T
 HE SEMINAR : ** The seminar will proceed on the basis that participants ha
 ve read the paper in advance. For a copy of the paper (available one week 
 in advance)\, or to join the seminar mailing list\, please contact md718. 
 **\n\nThe Legal Histories beyond the State series is an initiative of the 
 Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, the Centre for History and Econ
 omics\, and the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. It brings together
  historians\, political theorists and lawyers who are interested in the so
 cial\, economic and political dimensions of law in the early modern and mo
 dern periods. We focus on the ways in which law and legal institutions ord
 er and organize space and people. This encompasses both imperial and inter
 national law\, and domestic public and private law in its manifold influen
 ces on the nature and form of relations across borders. We are interested 
 in legal actors and institutions\, both national and supranational\; doctr
 ines and concepts\, like jurisdiction\; and also diverse forms of legal bo
 rder-crossing\, including the migration of people\, ideas and objects acro
 ss time and place. Embracing new trends in legal and historical research\,
  we pursue the exchange of legal ideas in formal and informal contexts\, a
 nd the creation\, appropriation and interpretation of law by non-tradition
 al actors\, and in unexpected places.\n\nSome sessions will be devoted to 
 discussion of new\, published work in the field\, and others to the sharin
 g of works-in-progress\, whether draft articles\, chapters or book prospec
 tuses\, with a core group of scholars from a variety of disciplines.\n\nAl
 l are welcome.\n\n
LOCATION:Lauterpacht Centre for International Law\, 5 Cranmer Rd
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