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Transdisciplinary Panel Debate: Maritime Domains as Research Frontiers: Ghana and Beyond

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Time

Tuesday 3 December 2019,  at 15:15 - 17:00

Location

Building 1441-110, Tåsingegade 3

Brenda Chalfin, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for African Studies, University of Florida, USA:

”Maritime Domains as Research Frontiers: Transdisciplinary Approaches” 

George vanDyck, Senior Lecturer in the fields of Maritime Transport and Logistics, and the Coordinator of the School of Graduate Studies at the Regional Maritime University in Accra, Ghana:

“Port of Tema and Other Major Ports in West Africa” 

Annette Skovsted Hansen, Principle Investigator of the Port Efficiency and Public Private Capacity Development in Ghana (PEPP) Research Project funded by the Danish Foreign Ministry and Associate Professor of History and Japan Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark:

“Port Efficiency in Ghana and the Global History of Shipping"

Discussant: Professor Lindsay Whitfield, Professor MSO in Global Studies and Leader of the Centre of African Economies at the Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark

For biographies of all panelists: projects.au.dk/port-efficiency-and-public-private-capacity-inghana-pepp/international-advisory-board/

The panel is funded by a Danish Foreign Ministry FFU grant.