Geert Castryck
Guest professor - History of Africa
Research
Fields of study:
- African history
- Global and world history
- Urban history; border towns; port towns
- Colonial history; colonialism
- Islam in (East Central) Africa
Projects:
- A History of Kigoma-Ujiji: Liminal Town and Portal of Globalization (c. 1850-2000)
- African-European entangled histories and spatial orders in "Berlin's Africa" (1880s-1930s)
- Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition (Leipzig University).
Publications (selection)
- Castryck, Geert. Children of the Revolution: Divergent Strategies of Congolese Muslims in the Burundian Decolonization Process. In: Bram Cleys, Jan De Maeyer & Vincent Viaene (eds.) Religion, Colonization, and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Leuven, Leuven University Press (forthcoming).
- Castryck, Geert & Nadine Sieveking. Introduction: Performing Space in Urban Africa. In: Africa - Journal of the International Africa Institute, 84, no. 1 (2014), pp. 1-16.
- Castryck, Geert. Ex-Centring the Global: Liminality and Interconnectedness in Urban Kigoma. In: Matthias Middell (ed.) Self-Reflexive Area Studies. Leipzig, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2013, p. 59-78.
- Castryck, Geert. Whose History is History? Singularities and Dualities of the Public Debate on Belgian Colonialism. In: Sven Mörsdorf (ed.), Being a Historian: Opportunities and Responsibilities, Past and Present. CLIOHRES-ISHA Reader II. Pisa, CLIOHRES.net, 2010, p. 1-18 [first published in 2006].
Contact
E-mail: geert.castryck@UGent.be or geert.castryck@uni-leipzig.de
Hours: appointment only