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📢 Join us for the 10th Annual LEAP Lecture!
🗓 4 Nov 2025 | 🕔 17:00
📍 225 Schumann Building, Stellenbosch
🎙 Meredith Paker — “Understanding the Past with Machine Learning”
RSVP: lemonkelsey23@gmail.com
#LEAPLecture #EconomicHistory #MachineLearning #Stellenbosch
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🎓 5 Postdoc Fellowships at @StellenboschUni (3 years)
📍 LEAP & Impumelelo Economic Growth Lab 🔬 Economic History | Growth | Political Economy 🌍 Africa-focused research preferred 💼
Apply by 5 Jan 2026 via EconJobMarket
Info: johanf@sun.ac.za
#LEAP #PostDoc
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The new season of Great African Crimes is on DStv tonight! 🎬 LEAPer Kate Ekama contributed to an episode on a murder case involving enslaved people.
Don’t miss it! 21:05 CAT on channel 186!
#GreatAfricanCrimes #History #SouthAfrica
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Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past retweeted
9 Sep 2025
Read "The Runaway Child: Identity Subterfuge and Employment Opportunity in an Emancipation Era Cape Colony, 1830–42" by Karl Bergemann at @ProjectMUSE
From the latest issue of Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/9…
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📢 LEAP's Karl Bergemann publishes in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth!
#LEAP #EconHistory #Runaway
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📢 LEAP's Karl Bergemann publishes in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth!
#LEAP #EconHistory #Runaway
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Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past retweeted
29 Jul 2025
Today, I presented at the World Economic History Congress (WEHC) in Lund 🇸🇪 on government officials and private enterprise in the Cape Colony — using archival material to trace power and profit in the 19th century.
It’s more than history.
#EconomicHistory #ImpactThroughResearch
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LEAP turns 10! 🎉
From a tiny research group in Stellenbosch to a global hub for African economic history, it's been a decade of growth, grit & generosity.
Read more: ourlongwalk.com/p/happy-tent…
#LEAPturns10 #EconHistory #AEHN
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📢 LEAPer Kate Ekama publishes in Enterprise & Society!
Ekama, K. (2025) ‘Emancipation and the Business of Compensation in the Cape Colony’, Enterprise & Society, pp. 1–24. doi:10.1017/eso.2025.10077.
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📢 A new publication from LEAP's Karl Bergemann!
This publication signifies a notable scholarly contribution, indicating that the newly constructed datasets are now accessible to the public on the Harvard Dataverse and Enslaved.org.
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Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past retweeted
🔔This Thursday at 5pm CET, don’t miss our next #econhist session led by @gjmbrown (@LEAP_SU): The Persistent Effects of Bible Translations in Africa
📝With @FelixMzS1 (@UniUtrecht) as chair — great to have him join us!
🚀See you online!
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Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past retweeted
12 May 2025
Thank you for the opportunity to participate! The discussions had an immense impact on me and I enjoyed interacting with everyone there.
Our Workshop on Disseminating Economic History at STIAS was a great success! Thanks to all the presenters, panellists & participants for making it such an inspiring two days of ideas, tools & storytelling.
#EconHistory #LEAPStellenbosch
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Our Workshop on Disseminating Economic History at STIAS was a great success! Thanks to all the presenters, panellists & participants for making it such an inspiring two days of ideas, tools & storytelling.
#EconHistory #LEAPStellenbosch
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LEAP's Karen Jennings publishes a new short story: "Practical Medical Advice for Female Subjects of the Cape Colony."
lazuliliterarygroup.com/prac…
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🚨 LEAP Seminar alert!
Join us for our final LEAP seminar of 2025!
Chun Chee Kok (Monash University) presents his research, "Interethnic Proximity and Political Development."
14 May 2025 at 13:00 (SAST)
Please make sure to RSVP at leap@sun.ac.za
#LEAPSeminarSeries
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🚨 LEAP Seminar alert!
Sarah Ferber (University of Tübingen) presents her research, "The legacy of the Cape Colony's education system."
7 May 2025 at 15:00 (SAST)
Please make sure to RSVP at leap@sun.ac.za
hashtag#LEAPSeminarSeries
hashtag#EconomicHistory
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🚨 LEAP Seminar alert!
Youn Baek (NYU Stern) presents his research, "Missionaries and the Birth of International Development."
23 April 2025 at 15:00 (SAST)
Please make sure to RSVP at leap@sun.ac.za
#LEAPSeminarSeries
#EconomicHistory
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🚨 LEAP Seminar alert!
@NickArtFitz (London School of Economics) presents his research, "Mortality in the Century of Apartheid, 1940-1970: Spatial and racial health inequalities during the antibiotic transition."
16 April 2025 at 15:00 (SAST)
RSVP at leap@sun.ac.za
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🚨 LEAP Seminar alert!
Zhen Gu (University of Arizona) presents her research, "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the US 1910-1940."
9 April 2025 at 15:00 (SAST)
Please make sure to RSVP at leap@sun.ac.za
#LEAPSeminarSeries #EconomicHistory
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