I’ve given talks over the last decade to audiences in 17 countries and at sea, speaking to audiences at industry conferences, professional societies and on cruise ships carrying 3,000 speakers.
For speaking engagements, please get in touch:
Forthcoming talks
World Voyage, Cunard Line, January 2026
Mining the Past: What is the role of historians in the mining industry?
Vienna, Austria, 24 November 2025
Previous talks
2025
Colonial Hangovers? International Labour Organisations, White Officials and African Workers in Southern Africa
Linz, Austria, 27 September 2025
Mining the Market? A New Chronology of South Africa’s Gold Industry
Kimberley, South Africa, 22 June 2025
Lecture series on resources that shaped our world
World Voyage, Cunard Line, March & April 2025
2024
100 Years of Zambia’s Mining History
InterContinental Hotel, Lusaka, 21 October 2024
Author Hour with Duncan Money: Copperbelt History
KoBold Metals, 28 August 2024
Copper in the Northern Cape: Past, Present, Future?
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, 26 August 2024
Losing the Lustre: The End of Gold in South Africa
Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, 8 August 2024
Losing the Lustre: The End of Gold in South Africa
Southern Africa Historical Society conference, Johannesburg, 28 June 2024
Rich Seams: Making a Career in Africa’s Mining History
Project Hindsight Labs, London, 13 May 2024
The First Voyage around the World
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 2 May 2024
Empire and the Scramble for West Africa
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 30 April 2024
Slavery and Anti-slavery on the High Seas
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 28 April 2024
Congo and the Story of the First Atomic Bomb
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 26 April 2024
When the Cold War Got Hot: Independence in Angola
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 25 April 2024
Diamonds, Smugglers and Spies on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 24 April 2024
Voyage of the CSS Alabama: The Confederate Warship that Raided Round South Africa
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 23 April 2024
Gold Rush Fever: How Gold Remade South Africa
Grand World Voyage, Holland America Line, 20 April 2024
2023
Mining Continents: Connections and Comparisons between Latin America and Africa
Latin American Studies Association Africa conference, Accra, 17 November 2023
Copper Famine? Fears of Metal Shortages from the 1900s to Present
Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Johannesburg, 28 September 2023
Long-term Labour Trends in Extractive Industries
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2 May 2023
Are we Entering the Copper Age?
Mines and Money Connect London, 26 April 2023
Whose Heritage? Railway History, Industry and Colonialism in Southern Africa
National Railway Museum, York, 25 April 2023
Book discussion: White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt
University of Vienna, 20 March 2023
Partnerships and Pitfalls: Lessons from Digitising the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia Archive
University of Vienna, 17 March 2023
2022
Imperial Legacies and Global Connections of Mining in Southern Africa
Research Centre for Area Studies, Jakarta, 4 November 2022
Researching Twentieth Century Global Ordering
Archives and Methods of Global Ordering in the Twentieth Century, Leiden University, 13 October 2022.
Fiery Collieries’ and Explosive Situations: Towards a History of the 1972 Hwange Colliery Disaster
International Conference on Labour and Social History, Linz, 23 September 2022
Racial Nationalism, Defamation of the President, and the Roy Clarke Satirical Affair in Zambia
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, 18 August 2022
Lessons from the Rise and Decline of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
Maximising Benefits from Mining in Zambia Conference, Copperbelt University, 26 July 2022
Empire of Labour: Impact and Legacy of Migration from Cumberland to the South African Rand
Social History Society conference, Lancaster University, 2 July 2022
Labour and Capital in South Africa, ca. 1600-1900
General Labour History of Africa workshop, Leiden University, 10 June 2022
Mining and Migration in Southern Africa. Where do Lions Fit in?
Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in Southern Africa, African Studies Centre Leiden, 3 June 2022
Empire of Labour: The Consequences and Legacy of Migration between Northern England and the Rand
University of Pretoria, 30 May 2022
Book discussion: White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt
University of South Queensland, 10 May 2022
Immobile Nations: Independence and the Collapse of Labour Migration Systems in Southern Africa, c.1960-2020
Leiden University, 29 April 2022
Devouring the Past: How White Ants Have Shaped the Records of Zambia’s Recent History
University of Cape Town, 19 April 2022
Book launch: White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt
Leiden University, 27 March 2022
2021
Using Social Media as an Academic
University of Edinburgh, 18 November 2021
Beyond Discipline and Place in African Studies
LeidenGlobal lecture, Leiden University, 9 November 2021
Bad Judgement or Bad Timing? Reassessing the Legacy of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines
Remembering Kaunda: His Life and Legacies in Southern Africa and Beyond, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, Lusaka, 3 November 2021
Copper Processing on the Central African Copperbelt, 1907-1975
Commodities of Empire Workshop, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2 September 2021
Decolonization at Work: A Comparative History of Mining Labour on the Central African Copperbelt and the Fushun Coalfields, c. 1946-1970
European Labour History Network conference, University of Vienna, 31 August 2021
Global Processes and the Formation of the Central African Copperbelt, c.1890-1970
University of Oxford, 22-23 July 2021
Labour and Capital in South Africa, ca. 1600-1900
General Labour History of Africa conference, Leiden University, 17-19 June 2021
Roundtable Discussion on Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa
Journal of Southern African Studies seminar, 1 June 2021
Mining and Labour Migration in a Regional Perspective in Southern Africa, c. 1886-2012
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 26 March 2021
2020
All talks cancelled due to Covid-19!
2019
Rebalancing the narrative or perpetuating bias? Digitizing the archives of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia
University of the Free State, 30 October 2019
Rebalancing the narrative or perpetuating bias? Digitizing the archives of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia
African Studies Association of Africa conference, United States International University in Africa, Nairobi, 25 October 2019
American Mining Engineers and the Global Copper Industry, c.1880-1945
A Global History of Copper workshop, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 16 August 2019
Divergence and Convergence on the Copperbelt: White communities in comparative perspective, 1911-63
Comparing the Copperbelt conference, University of Lubumbashi, 23 July 2019
‘‘A Second Arizona’: Global Connections, Commodity Production and the Creation of the Urban Copperbelt, 1926-69
University of Leicester, 12 July 2019
Rebalancing the historical narrative or perpetuating bias? Digitizing the archives of the Mineworkers’ Union of Zambia
Southern African Historical Society conference, Rhodes University, 26 June 2019
What Work Counts? Understanding and Classifying Zambia’s Labour Force, c.1900 to the present
European Conference on African Studies, Edinburgh University, 14 June 2019
In a Class of Their Own? Researching White Mineworkers’ on Zambia’s Copperbelt
University of the Free State, 19 March 2019
Compounding Errors: Workers’ Housing in Mining Regions Across Southern Africa, c.1880s-1980s
University of the Free State, 4 March 2019
2018
Accident and Death Rates on the Central African Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, c.1910-1970
African Studies Association UK Conference, University of Birmingham, 11 September 2018
Changes in Occupational Structures in Zambia, c. 1930-2000
World Economic History Congress, MIT, 1 August 2018
The World of Mining Camps: International and Regional Labour Migration on the Central African Copperbelt, c. 1910-1975
Leiden University, 19 April 2018
Occupational Structures in Zambia, c.1911-2011
Comparative History of Occupational Structures Across Africa Conference, University of Cambridge, 12 April 2018
The Dog That Didn’t Bark: The Mufulira Strike and White Mineworkers’ at Zambia Independence
Rethinking White Societies Workshop, University of the Free State, 15 February 2018
Crafting the Copper Spoon: Creating and Controlling Value Chains in Zambia’s Copper Industry
Symposium on the History of Extractive Industries and African Development, University of Ghana, 2 February 2018
2017
‘A Second Arizona’: American Mining Engineers and the Development of the Copperbelt, 1926-39
Mining in Comparative Perspective Conference, Ghent University, 13 December 2017
Race at Work: Migration and Labour in the Mining Industry in Southern Africa and Beyond
Centre for the Study of the Inland Seminar, La Trobe University, 4 October 2017
‘A Second Arizona’: American Mining Engineers and the Development of the Copperbelt, 1926-39
Australasian Mining History Association Conference, Federation University, 26 September 2017
“Ain’t I a bastard, well I received my training in Aussie”: The life of Frank Maybank, an Australian trade unionist on the Central African Copperbelt
Fifteenth Biennial Labour History Conference, University of Queensland, 24 September 2017
Integrating or disaggregating economic histories? Changing occupational structures in Zambia and regional dynamics, c.1911-2010
European Conference on African Studies, University of Basel, 1 July 2017
Urbanisation in Zambia
Literature and Sources About African Cities workshop, University of Basel, 28 June 2017
‘The North Union will go down’: White workers, industrial relations, and the state during and after Zambian independence, 1958-1970
Southern Africa Historical Society conference, University of the Witwatersrand, 22 June 2017
Choking on a Copper Spoon? The mining industry and economic development in Africa
Young Scholars Initiative conference, University of the Free State, 9 June 2017
‘Aliens’ on the Copperbelt: Citizenship, national identity and non-Zambian Africans in the mining industry
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town, 6 June 2017
Underground struggles: the early life of Jack Hodgson
History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 20 April 2017
Underground struggles: the early life of Jack Hodgson
University of Pretoria, 19 April 2017
2016
Whites on the Copperbelt in Connected and Comparative Perspective
Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, 5 December 2016.
“Artisans can get a bare living anywhere”: White labour mobility and wartime movement restrictions on the Zambian Copperbelt
University of the Witwatersrand, 3 November 2016
National Archives and Transnational Subjects: the dispersal of archival documents on Zambia’s past
Endangered and Post-Colonial Archives workshop, Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, Lusaka, 13 October 2016
Underground struggles: the early life of Jack Hodgson
Leiden University, 30 September 2016
The Wild West in Central Africa: Authority, justice, and white miners in the Copperbelt mining camps
Association for African Studies in Italy, University of Catania, 24 September 2016
Trouble in Paradise: White industrial unrest on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1956-60
African Studies Association UK conference, University of Cambridge, 9 September 2016
“Do we fight or Do we surrender?”: Settlers, resistance, and decolonisation in Zambia, 1959-64
London School of Economics, 10 February 2016
2015
White labour migration and the 1944-46 wildcat strikes on the Zambian Copperbelt
European Labour History Network conference, University of Turin, 14 December 2015
Trouble in Paradise: Wildcat strikes and white labour migration on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1944-48
University of Oxford, 19 October 2015
The ‘Black Squad’ and white labour: Glaswegian riveters on the Zambian Copperbelt
Sheffield Hallam University, 7 October 2015
‘Even if we are the highest paid workers in the world, the fact remains we are entitled to fight’: White mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1930-1950
European Conference on African Studies, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 9 July 2015
‘Even if we are the highest paid workers in the world, the fact remains we are entitled to fight’: White mineworkers on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1930-1950
Southern Africa Historical Society conference, University of Stellenbosch, 3 July 2015
Suitable subjects? Radical and social history on the Zambian Copperbelt
Unofficial Histories conference, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, 5 June 2015
Empire of Labour: White workers and internationalism on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1930-45
University of Newcastle, 25 April 2015
Who is a radical in history? Problems of definition on the Zambian Copperbelt
What is Radical History? conference, Birkbeck, University of London, 24 March 2015
Money doesn’t buy you happiness: Welfare and leisure on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1947-1966
Researching Africa Day conference, University of Oxford, 7 March 2015
“They can’t settle down”: White miners and migration on the Zambian Copperbelt
University of Oxford, 18 February 2015
2014
Transnational white labour migration, industrial militancy and racial exclusivity on the Copperbelt, 1930-1946
African Studies Association UK conference, University of Sussex, 10 September 2014
‘The eyes of the world are on the Copperbelt tonight’: The world of European labour on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1940-46
History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, 30 July 2014
Transnational white labour migration, industrial militancy and racial exclusivity on the Copperbelt, 1930-1946
Rhodes University, 25 July 2014
‘The use of a cutting torch remains a vital point of principle’: The significance of race in the history of the Copperbelt, 1948-1966
University of the Free State, 24 July 2014
The wealth is there; do you get your share?’ Unlikely and unintended consequences of white trade unionism in post-independence Zambia
Mining and Political Transformations in Africa conference, University of Edinburgh, 24 April 2014
Industrial militancy, egalitarianism and racial exclusivity: white miners on the Copperbelt, 1929-1953
University of Oxford, 29 January 2014
2013
‘Every profiteer for himself is the manager’s idea of patriotism’: White labourism and industrial unrest on the Copperbelt during the Second World War
University of the Free State, 2 October 2013
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