Mi 15.02.2023
18:30 (CET)
• online
Vortrag
Brussels – Kinshasa, Mirror cities ? Unpacking the entangled colonial histories of two capital cities
Johan Lagae
In this lecture, I propose to discuss how the making and shaping of the skylines of the capital cities of Brussels, Belgium, and Kinshasa (ex-Léopoldville), Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulted from their entangled histories during the colonial era, that ran from roughly 1885 till 1960. I will do so…
