Department of Contemporary History

Publications

Books

Monograph, Scientific

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  Burton, Eric (2021): In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus. Tansania und die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der beiden deutschen Staaten, 1961-1990. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (= Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte, 49). ISBN 978-3110-70552-2. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

(Co-)Edited Books

Anthology / Collected Edition (Editorship)

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  Mark, James; Betts, Paul; Alamgir, Alena; Apor, Peter; Burton, Eric; Iacob, Bogdan C.; Marung, Steffi; Vucetic, Radina (2022): Socialism goes global. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-019284885-7. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Dietrich, Anne; Harisch, Immanuel R.; Schenck, Marcia C. (2021): Navigating Socialist Encounters. Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Berlin u.a.: De Gruyter (= Africa in Global History, 2). ISBN 978-3-11-062231-7. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

(Co-)Edited Journals and Book Series

(Co-)Editorship of Book Series and Journals

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  Burton, Eric; Katsakioris, Constantin: Guest Editor of the Special Issue: "Africa’s Relations with Socialist Countries during the Cold War" - International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2021-01-01 - 2022-01-01. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Herausgeberschaft - historia.scribere, 2019-04-01 on-going. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Redaktionstätigkeit - Stichproben - Vienna Journal of african studies, 2019-04-01 on-going. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Redaktionstätigkeit - Journal für Entwicklungspolitik, 2019-04-01 - 2022-12-31. (Web link)
  
  

Contributions to Books / Journals

Journal Article (Original Paper)

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  Burton, Eric (online first): From convergence to divergence: Mozambique’s failed campaign to join the CMEA and the reconfiguration of East-South relations.
  In: Cold War History. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (online first): Frontline Citizens: Liberation Movements, Transnational Solidarity, and the Making of Anti-Imperialist Citizenship in Tanzania.
  In: International Review of Social History. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Harisch, Immanuel R.; Burton, Eric (2023): The Missing Link? Western Communists as Mediators Between the East German FDGB, the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), and African Trade Unions in the Late 1950s and Early 1960s.
  In: International Labor and Working-Class History 103, pp. 292 - 311. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2022): Civilization under colonial conditions: Development, difference and violence in Swahili poems in German East Africa, 1889-1907.
  In: Journal of African Cultural Studies 34/3, pp. 244 - 261. (Full-text) (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): A Marxist-Leninist Tanzanian Economist: Kassim Guruli, East Germany, and Struggles over Socialism at the University of Dar es Salaam.
  In: International Journal of African Historical Studies 54/3, pp. 279 - 307. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): Antikoloniale Solidaritäten im Konflikt: Panafrikanismus, Panarabismus und afroasiatische Beziehungen in Kairo, 1956-1963.
  In: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies 21/40, pp. 43 - 80. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Katsakioris, Constantin (2021): Africans and the Socialist World: Aspirations, Experiences, and Trajectories. An Introduction.
  In: International Journal of African Historical Studies 54/3, pp. 269 - 277. (Web link)
  
  
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  Harisch, Immanuel; Burton, Eric (2021): Sozialistische Globalisierung. Tagebücher der DDR-Freundschaftsbrigaden in Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika.
  In: Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History 17/3, pp. 578 - 591. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2020): Decolonization, the Cold War and Africans’ routes to overseas education, 1957-1965.
  In: Journal of Global History 15/1, pp. 169 - 191. (Full-text) (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2020): Von Revolution zu Reform: Transfers zwischen China und Tansanias »Afrikanischem Sozialismus« von anti-imperialistischer Solidarität bis Neoliberalismus.
  In: Jahrbuch für Historische Kommunismusforschung, pp. 121 - 138. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2019): Navigating global socialism: Tanzanian students in and beyond East Germany.
  In: Cold War History 19/1, pp. 63 - 83. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

Journal Article (Editorial)

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  Ambach, Florian; Burton, Eric; Nicolussi-Köhler, Stephan; Pfanzelter, Eva (2023): Vorwort zur fünfzehnten Ausgabe von historia.scribere (2023).
  In: historia.scribere 15, pp. I - VII. (DOI)
  
  
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  Pfanzelter, Eva; Hasenöhrl, Ute; Burton, Eric (2022): Vorwort zu Ausgabe 14.
  In: historia.scribere 14, pp. I - VII. (DOI)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Pfanzelter, Eva; Hasenöhrl, Ute (2021): Vorwort zur dreizehnten Ausgabe.
  In: historia.scribere 13, pp. I - VI. (Web link)
  
  
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  Pfanzelter, Eva; Burton, Eric; Hasenöhrl, Ute (2020): Vorwort zur zwölften Ausgabe.
  In: historia.scribere 12, pp. I - VII. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

Book Chapter (Original Paper)

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  Burton, Eric (2023): The Trade Union: Kindred by Choice — Trade Unions as Interface Between East Africa and East Germany.
  In: Roth-Ey, Kristin: Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War. London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Publishing (= Histories of Internationalism)., ISBN 978-1-3503-0278-5, pp. 197 - 216. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Ginelli, Zoltán; Mark, James; Radonjic, Nemanja (2023): he Travelogue: Imagining Spaces of Encounter — Travel Writing Between the Colonial and the Anti-Colonial in Socialist Eastern Europe, 1949–1989.
  In: Roth-Ey, Kristin: Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War. London [u.a.]: Bloomsbury Publishing (= Histories of Internationalism)., ISBN 978-1-3503-0278-5, pp. 237 - 260. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2022): Die globale Entwicklungsarbeit der DDR. Ein Mosaik am Beispiel Sansibars.
  In: Ganzenmüller, Jörg; Schlichting, Franz-Josef (Hrsg.): Die DDR und der globale Süden. Zwischen "Internationaler Solidarität", wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit und Auslandsspionage. Weimar: Stiftung Ettersberg (= Aufarbeitung kompakt, 17)., ISBN 978-3-943098-25-9, pp. 21 - 37. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Mark, James; Marung, Steffi (2022): Development.
  In: Mark, James; Betts, Paul; Alamgir, Alena; Apor, Peter; Burton, Eric; Iacob, Bogdan C.; Marung, Steffi; Vucetic, Radina: Socialism goes global. The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the Age of Decolonization. Oxford: Oxford University Press., ISBN 978-019284885-7, pp. 75 - 114. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): Dilemmas of Egalitarianism. Development Workers From the Two German States and Inequalities in Socialist Tanzania.
  In: Kaag, Mayke; Khan-Mohammad, Guive; Schmid, Stefan: Destination Africa. Contemporary Africa as a Centre of Global Encounter. Leiden [u.a.]: Brill (= Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies, 24)., ISBN 978-90-04-46413-1, pp. 46 - 79. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): From Development State to Non-state Development:Counterpart Careers, West German Aid and Asymmetrical Interdependence in Late Socialist Tanzania.
  In: Kalfelis, Melina; Knodel, Kathrin: NGOs and Lifeworlds in Africa. Transdisciplinary Perspectives. New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books., ISBN 978-1-80073-110-3, pp. 226 - 250. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): Postkolonialismus.
  In: Gräser, Marcus; Rupnow, Dirk: Österreichische Zeitgeschichte / Zeitgeschichte in Österreich. Eine Standortbestimmung in Zeiten des Umbruchs. Wien [u.a.]: Böhlau (= Böhlaus Zeitgeschichtliche Bibliothek, 41)., ISBN 978-3-205-20928-7, pp. 321 - 347. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): Socialisms between cooperation and competition. Ideology, aid and Cold War politics in Tanzania’s relations with East Germany.
  In: Basto, Maria-Benedita; Blum, Francoise; Guidi, Pierre; Kiriakou, Heloise; Mourre, Martin; Pauthier, Celine; Rillon, Ophelie; Roy, Alexis; Vezzadini, Elena: Socialismes en Afrique. African socialism. Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de l`homme., ISBN 978-2-7351-2698-9, Vol. 54, pp. 613 - 642. (Web link)
  
  
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  Schenck, Marcia C.; Harisch, Immanuel R.; Dietrich, Anne; Burton, Eric (2021): Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War.
  In: Burton, Eric; Dietrich, Anne; Harisch, Immanuel R.; Schenck, Marcia C.: Navigating Socialist Encounters. Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Berlin u.a.: De Gruyter (= Africa in Global History, 2)., ISBN 978-3-11-062231-7, pp. 1 - 58. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2020): Engineering Socialism: The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the 1970s and 1980s.
  In: Bandeira Jeronimo, Miguel; Matasci, Damiano; Gonçalves Dores, Hugo: Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa. Policies, Paradigms, and Entanglements, 1890s–1980s. Cham: Springer International Publishing (= Global Histories of Education, 3)., ISBN 978-3-030-27800-7, pp. 205 - 233. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2019): Diverging visions in post-revolutionary spaces: East German advisers and revolution from above in Zanzibar, 1964-1970.
  In: Calori, Anna; Hartmetz, Anne-Kristin; Kocsev, Bence; Mark, James; Zofka, Jan: Between East and South. Spaces of Interaction in the Globalizing Economy of the Cold War. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (= Dialectics of the Global, 3)., ISBN 978-3-11-063965-0, pp. 85 - 116. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2019): Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and "Eastern" Connections in Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam.
  In: Dallywater, Lena; Saunders, Chris; Helder, Adegar Fonseca: Southern African Liberation Movements and the global Cold War "East". Transnational Activism 1960-1990. Berlin u.a.: De Gruyter (= Dialectics of the Global, 4)., ISBN 978-3-11-063886-8, pp. 25 - 56. (Web link)
  
  

(Book) Reviews

Journal Article (Book Review)

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  Burton, Eric (early view): Rezension zu: Racism, Study, and Cold War Solidarities. African Students in East Germany, 1949–1975; Sara Pugach. Ann Arbor; University of Michigan Press, 2022.
  In: JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2022): Roberts, George: Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam. African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961–1974. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  In: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies 44, pp. 147 - 152. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2020): Bissell, William Cunningham / Fouéré, Marie-Aude (eds.): Social memory, silenced voices, and political struggle. Remembering the revolution in Zanzibar. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2018.
  In: Stichproben - Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien / Vienna Journal of African Studies 20/39, pp. 167 - 172. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  
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  Eder, Julia; Burton, Eric (2019): Felix Wemheuer (Hg.): Marx und der globale Süden. Neue Kleine Bibliothek 227, Köln: PapyRossa Verlag, 2016.
  In: Journal für Entwicklungspolitik 1/35, pp. 118 - 121. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

Electronic Publication (Book Review)

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  Burton, Eric (2022): Linne, Karsten: Die Bruderschaft der »Entwickler«. Zur Etablierung der Entwicklungspolitik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1956 bis 1974. Göttingen 2021: Wallstein Verlag. In: H-Soz-Kult, 28.02.2022. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2021): Dinkel, Jürgen; Fiebrig, Steffen; Reichherzer, Frank (Hrsg.): Nord/Süd – Perspektiven auf eine globale Konstellation. Berlin 2020: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. In: H-Soz-Kult, 19.05.2021. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2020): Sean Delehanty: From Modernization to Villagization. The World Bank and Ujamaa. Diplomatic History 44:2, 2020. In: H-Diplo, 18. November. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric (2019): Mëhilli, Elidor: From Stalin to Mao: Albania and the socialist world. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. In: Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, 15.03.2019. (Web link)
  
  

Journal Article in Professional / Transfer-Oriented Journal (Book Review)

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  Burton, Eric (2020): Sozialistischer Internationalismus. Ulrich Heyden: Das gescheiterte Experiment. Vertragsarbeiter aus Mosambik in der DDR-Wirtschaft, 1979-1990. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2019.
  In: Indaba. Das SADOCC-Magazin für das Südliche Afrika 107/20, pp. 25 - 26. (Web link)
  
  

Other Publications

Electronic Publication, Scientific

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  Burton, Eric (2021): Rassismuskritik im Realsozialismus. Zu einem Beschwerdeschreiben afrikanischer Studenten in der DDR. In: Themenportal Europäische Geschichte. (Web link)
  
  

Database Entry, Scientific

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  Burton, Eric (2024): Dar es Salaam. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. (DOI) (Web link)
  
  

Electronic Publication, Transfer-Oriented

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  Burton, Eric (2023): Apartheid im Innsbrucker Gemeinderat, In: Innsbruck erinnert sich, 5.11.2023. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Föger, Katharina (2023): Editing pan-Africanism. In: Africa Is a Country, 06. Februar. (Web link)
  
  
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  Kuhn, Konrad; Burton, Eric (2023): Innsbruck Postkolonial: Eine Stadt mitten in den Bergen - verstrickt in globale koloniale Verhältnisse? (Web link)
  
  

Media Contributions

Article in Popular Magazine

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  Burton, Eric; De Pretto, Sebastian; Wurzer, Markus: Nicht nur Opfer.
  In: ff - Das Südtiroler Wochenmagazin of 2023-07-06. (Web link)
  
  

Lectures

Presentations at Conferences, Symposia, etc.

Conference Lecture (Invited Lecture)

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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Hubs of Decolonization. African Liberation Movements and «Eastern» Connections in Cairo, Accra, and Dar es Salaam ca. 1956-1967.
  Après les indépendances africaines, Nantes, 2022-11-17. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: The Pen and the Gun: African Liberation Movements and Educational Trajectories.
  Africa and the Global Cold War III, Erfurt, 2022-09-22.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Liberation Struggles in Balance Sheets. Expenditures and Revenues of the ANC and FRELIMO in the Global 1960s.
  The Socialist Countries and the Third World: Recent Approaches and New Perspectives, Prag, 2022-09-09.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Forging the vanguard of developmental socialism: Ujamaa, respectability, and transnational connections at Kivukoni College, Tanzania.
  Development Dreams from the Socialist South, Bristol, 2022-06-30.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: African liberation movements as educational actors. Two Types of Education and the Socialist Camp.
  International Workshop: "Migration, Education, Development, Labour and the State", Wien (online), 2022-03-31 (Online).
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: The pen and the gun. African liberation movements and two types of education in the socialist camp.
  International Conference on African Studies: Africa and (the Other) Europe: Imageries – Discourses – Exchanges, Prag, 2021-09-17. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Odyssey from Zanzibar to Cairo: Anti-heroic anticolonialism and serendipity in Adam Shafi’s Mbali na Nyumbani (Far from Home).
  East Africa`s Global Lives, Warwick (online), 2021-07-01.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Die DDR und ihre globale Entwicklungsarbeit.
  Die DDR und der globale Süden. Zwischen ›Internationaler Solidarität‹, wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit und Auslandsspionage, Weimar/Erfurt (online), 2021-06-12. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: The pen and the gun. African liberation movements and two types of education in the socialist camp.
  Visions of Socialist Solidarities with Africa during decolonization and the Cold War, Bologna, online, 2021-05-25. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Re-centering anti-apartheid: The ANC’s globalized networks in the 1960s as seen from Accra, Cairo and Dar es Salaam.
  Online Workshop: Discussing New Cold War Studies, Wien, 2020-12-17.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Mobile Marxist: Kassim Guruli’s Transnational Trajectory and the Struggles over Socialism at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
  East Africa`s Global Lives, Warwick (online), 2020-12-11.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: South African Liberation Movements in Africa’s Hubs of Decolonization in the 1960s (Panel 11).
  Mapping South-South Connections: Networks, Alliances and New Actors, Iran, online, 2020-11-22. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Debating Solidarities in an anticolonial Hub: Pan-Africanism, pan-arabism and the discontents of afro-asian connections in Cairo, 1956-1963.
  The Long History of Pan-African Intellectual Activism: More than a Centernary, 1919 - 2019, Wien, 2019-05-16. (Web link)
  
  

Conference Lecture (Upon Registration)

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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Camp or classroom: African liberation movements in exile and the making of educational trajectories in the global 1960s.
  7th European Congress on World and Global History, Leiden, 2023-06-30.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Pan-African Liberation as Co-Evolution: Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaam as Competing Hubs of Decolonization, 1957-1967.
  CEDEJ Workshop on: Cape Town to Cairo: Rethinking the Historical Paths and Trajectories of African Independence, Kairo, 2022-10-13.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Frontline citizens. Liberation movements, transnational solidarity and the making of anti-imperialist citizenship in Tanzania.
  Workshop "Comparing cultures of solidarity: socialist internationalism and solidarity across the Eastern Bloc and beyond", Cambridge (hybrid), 2022-06-20 (Online). (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Solidarity Sonderweg? East Germany and Mozambique’s failed campaign to join Comecon.
  ASEEES 2021: 53rd Annual Convention of the American Association of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Washington, online, 2021-12-01. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric; Dreidemy, Lucille: For peace and colonies – Paneurope and imperialism by integration in post-Habsburg Austria.
  International Workshop on Re-examining Empires from the Margins: Towards a New Imperial History of Europe, München, 2021-10-23.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Frontline Citizens & Freedom Fighters: Umkämpfte Solidaritäten in Tansania von den 1960ern bis in die 1980er Jahre.
  53. Deutscher Historikertag: Deutungs Kämpfe, München, 2021-10-05. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: (Un)welcoming guests: African liberation struggles, frontline citizens and their relations with exiles in Tanzania.
  6th European Congress on World and Global History, Leipzig, 2021-06-18. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: From convergence to divergence. Mozambique’s failed campaign to join COMECON and the collapse of East-South solidarity, ca. 1977-1985.
  6th European Congress on World and Global History, Leipzig, 2021-06-17. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Managing anticolonial mobilities. South African liberation movements in Africa’s hubs of decolonization in the 1960s.
  Entangled Im/Mobilities Conference 2021. Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wien, 2021-03-18. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Antikoloniale Solidaritäten im Konflikt: Panafrikanismus, Panarabismus und afroasiatische Beziehungen in Kairo, 1956 - 1963.
  13. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag 2020 - 1. Virtueller Zeitgeschichtetag, Innsbruck, 2020-04-17. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric; Harisch, Immanuel: The missing link? Western communists as mediators between the East German FDGB and African trade unions in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
  A Minor History? Western Communists, Anti-Imperalism and Decolonization in Africa, Rom, 2019-12-12. (Web link)
  
  

Session Chairperson / Discussant

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  Burton, Eric: Chair Panel 1: Politics of Global History.
  Worlds Apart? Futures of global History, Wien, 2023-05-25.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Panel I - Hubs of Decolonization.
  Anticolonial Struggle, Transnational Solidarity and Agency of Individual Actors, , 2023-01-26.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair - Roundtable Discussion: Africanists, Research and Academic Publishing in Social Sciences Journals.
  CEDEJ Workshop on: Cape Town to Cairo: Rethinking the Historical Paths and Trajectories of African Independence, Kairo, 2022-10-13.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Panel 2: The African Experiences.
  ReMIGRA22 - International Conference, Innsbruck, 2022-06-23. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Panel 26: Post-imperial? Beziehungen zwischen Österreich und dem Globalen Süden in der Ersten und Zweiten Republik.
  14. Österreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag - Risse in der Zeitgeschichte - Transformationen, Konflikte, Perspektiven, Salzburg, 2022-04-22. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Concluding Discussion Chair.
  Adressing Injustice, Atrocities and Violence: Exploring Reparations in Global Perspective, Innsbruck (Online), 2022-03-24.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Session 2.
  Adressing Injustice, Atrocities and Violence: Exploring Reparations in Global Perspective, Innsbruck (Online), 2022-03-23.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Moderation des Vortrages von Noam Zadoff: "Vom Traum zur Wirklichkeit: Der Zionismus und der Staat Israel".
  Promised Land - Israel between Vision and Reality (Lecture Series), Innsbruck, 2022-01-24. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Diskussionsteilnehmer beim Round table, Thema: Navigating Eastern Europe’s Transregional Histories.
  Socialist mobilities: Practices, trajectories, and tensions of political circulations in a changing world (1945–1990), Leipzig (hyprid), 2021-11-18. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair des B4 Panel on Socialist Expertise and Development in Africa: Czechoslovak and East German Perspectives.
  International Conference on African Studies: Africa and (the Other) Europe: Imageries – Discourses – Exchanges, Prag, 2021-09-17.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Kommentator.
  6th European Congress on World and Global History, Leipzig, 2021-06-15. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Session 6.2 - Bilder und "Reasonings".
  Afrikaforschung in Österreich: Zugänge und Perspektiven, Innsbruck, 2021-05-28. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Moderation des abschließenden Round Table.
  Afrikaforschung in Österreich: Zugänge und Perspektiven, Innsbruck, 2021-05-28. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair Session 3.2 - Globaler Kalter Krieg II: Netzwerke und Institutionen.
  Afrikaforschung in Österreich: Zugänge und Perspektiven, Innsbruck, 2021-05-27. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Hanisch, Sarah: Chair des Panel VI-3: Beyond the Global North: Educational Mobilities of African Students and
  Professionals in the 20th and 21st Centuries.
  15th International Conference of Africanists: Destinies of Arfica in the Modern World, Moskau, online, 2021-05-26.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Kommentar und Chair Panel 4: Whose business is the state enterprise?
  International Workshop: A Global History of State-Enterprises in Developing Countries, 1950 to present, Berlin, online, 2020-11-27. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Kommentar zu Vortrag von Max Trecker: Development as a Business Model: What were the Economic Benefits for the European CMEA Countries?
  Alternative Formen der Globalisierung? Der Rat für Gegenseitige Wirtschaftshilfe als Entwicklungsorganisation, Wien, 2020-11-13.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Kommentar.
  Internationales Forschungsgespräch: Vertragsarbeiter im Sozialistischen Weltsystem, Wien, 2019-05-31. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Chair des Panel 6: Ideologies, Aesthetics, and Travels in Pan-African Space and Time.
  The Long History of Pan-African Intellectual Activism: More than a Centernary, 1919 - 2019, Wien, 2019-05-17. (Web link)
  
  

Lecture at Summer-/Winterschool

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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Forgotten Relations in Film. African Students Connecting the “Second” and “Third World” during the Cold War.
  Austrian-Ukrainian Summer School: Finding a Common Language, Innsbruck, 2022-07-20. (Web link)
  
  

Guest Lectures

Guest Lecture

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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric; Dreidemy, Lucile: Kolonialität lokalisieren. Zur Kartierung anti/kolonialer Dimensionen in der Zeitgeschichte Tirols und Wiens.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2024-03-14. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Kuhn, Konrad; Burton, Eric: Postcolonial Innsbruck – reflections on a student-project.
  Aurora Lecture Series: Decolonize! Interdisciplinary perspectives on producing academic knowledge, Innsbruck, 2023-11-15.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Drehkreuze der Dekolonisierung. Afrikanische Befreiungsbewegungen in Kairo, Accra und Dar es Salaam 1956-67.
  Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, 2023-05-02.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: "African Renaissance" in Cairo. Pan-Africanism, Anticolonial Solidarity and Liberation Movements in the Journal Nahdatu Ifriquiah, 1957-1964.
  Societé Egyptienne des Études Historiques, Cairo, 2023-04-19 (Online).
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Transformations in (Post)Colonial Africa.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2023-03-17.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Towards a Global History of International Organizations and Decolonization.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2023-01-20 (Online). (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Kuhn, Konrad; Burton, Eric: Das postkoloniale Innsbruck – Potentiale für die Politische Bildung.
  Ringvorlesung: Politische Bildung und Zeitgeschichte - Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Innsbruck, 2023-01-10. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: The ‘Nile Route’ and Other ‘Pipelines’: Decolonization, the Cold War, and Africans’ Routes to Higher Education Overseas, 1957–65 (online).
  University of Michigan, Dearborn, 2022-11-21. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Österreichische Zeitgeschichte im globalen Kontext von Kolonialismus und Dekolonisierung.
  Ring-Vorlesung: Österreichische Zeitgeschichte – Zeitgeschichte in Österreich, Innsbruck, 2022-05-05. (Web link)
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Sozialismen in Entwicklung. Zwischen Kooperation und Konkurrenz.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2022-04-03.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Kino‐Koproduktion Ost‐Süd: Afrikanisches Filmschaffen und das sowjetische Lager im Kalten Krieg.
  Universität Innsbruck - Institut für Slawistik, Innsbruck, 2022-01-11.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Students and guerillas - The Pen and the Gun. Globale Bildungsnetzwerke und militärische Ausbildung antikolonialer Befreiungsbewegungen aus dem südlichen Afrika, ca. 1960-1990.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2021-11-22.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: The Pen and the Gun. Antikoloniales "Manpower Development" bei afrikanischen Befreiungsbewegungen in den 1960er Jahren (online).
  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, 2021-11-03.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric; Rupnow, Dirk; Ramsey-Kurz, Helga: Die deutsche Debatte um Achille Mbembe (Abschlussdiskussion der Ringvorlesung).
  Universität Innsbruck - Ringvorlesung: Die deutsche Debatte um Achille Mbembe, Innsbruck, 2021-06-24.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Sozialismen in Entwicklung. Zwischen Kooperation und Konkurrenz.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2021-04-13.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric; Föger, Katharina: Asterix, der Antiimperialist? Comics und Dekolonisierung.
  Universität Innsbruck - Institut für Klassische und Provinzialrömische Archäologie, Innsbruck, 2021-02-03.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Kassim Guruli: Leipzig Alumnus and Mobile Marxist.
  Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, 2020-10-21.
  
  
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  Lecturer(s): Burton, Eric: Afrikanische Bildungsmigration und “manpower development” im Kalten Krieg.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2019-10-14.
  
  

Individual Lectures (professional development / knowledge transfer)

Teachers' Training Course

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  Burton, Eric: Afrika. Ein Kontinent mit Zukunft.
  Pädagogische Hochschule Tirol (PHT), Innsbruck, 2021-01-18. (Web link)
  
  

Presentations for the general public

Public Lecture

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  Burton, Eric: Diskussion und Vortrag zur Globalgeschichte der Entwicklungspolitik und Buchpräsentation "In Diensten des Afrikanischen Sozialismus".
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2022-03-31. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric; Sauer, Walter: Büros der Befreiung. Die "External Mission" des ANC.
  Dokumentations- und Kooperationszentrum Südliches Afrika (SADOCC), Wien, 2021-11-25.
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Polit Film Festival talks Politics: Filmpräsentation "Sakawa".
  Polit-Film-Festival, Leokino, Innsbruck, 2020-01-14. (Web link)
  
  
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  Burton, Eric: Diskussionsteilnehmer beim Workshop: Mobile Solidaritäten. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Ambivalenzen und Grenzen von Solidarität.
  Universität Wien, Wien, 2019-11-14. (Web link)