20 November 2025

Yugoslav Labour Migrants in Postcolonial Zambia

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Yugoslav labour migrants in postcolonial Zambia - Wilberforce Institute Public Lecture

Thursday 20 November 2025

16.00 - 17.00

Location

Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street Kingston upon Hull HU1 1NE

Price

Free

In this talk, Dr Rory Archer examines the experiences of Yugoslav labour migrants in postcolonial Zambia, exploring how their presence reflected broader currents of nonaligned solidarity in the decades following British colonial rule.

Dr Rory Archer is a social historian whose research primarily focuses on gender, labour, migration and racialised ethnicity in Yugoslav space.

He currently works as a researcher at the University of Graz and the University of Ljubljana. From 2022-2025, he worked on the research project "A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia" at the University of Vienna, led by Goran Musić.

Recent publications include "Modes of Masculinities among the Yugoslav Workforce in Postcolonial Zambia," Slavic Review (forthcoming in Fall 2025).

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Thursday 20 November 2025

16.00 - 17.00

Location

Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation, Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street Kingston upon Hull HU1 1NE

Price

Free

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