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Blood Minerals

Date

Sep 30 2016

Time

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Location

Forum for Scholars and Publics

011 Old Chemistry Building, Duke's West Campus Quad

Blood Minerals - Investigative Reporting & Writing in Africa

Blood Minerals

Investigative Reporting & Writing in Africa

Join us for a discussion with author Christophe Boltanski about his book Minerais de sang: les esclaves du monde moderne (2012). Boltanski’s investigation “traces” conflict minerals all the way from the Eastern Congo, where latter-day slaves labor in perilous pits, until they become an indispensable part of our slick cell phones and computers via the London Stock Metal Exchange, factories in Malaysia, and multinational companies. Penned as minutely as a police report, yet narrated as grippingly as a detective story, his book follows the twisted trails of cassiterite or coltan that lead to cynical profiteers, local warlords as well as powerful CEOs.

Co-sponsored by the Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Forum for Scholars and Publics, the Africa Initiative, Romance Studies, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology. 

Speakers

Christophe Boltanski

Le Nouvel Observateur

Christophe Boltanski is a French writer and journalist. A correspondent for the newspaper, Libération, in the Gulf and Middle East, he writes regularly today for the magazine Le Nouvel Observateur, and the online review, Rue 89.  Boltanski pursues investigative work that has taken him from Palestine to Malaysia; the Scottish reaches of Europe to the…...

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Stephen Smith

Duke University

Stephen Smith has been teaching African Studies at Duke since 2007. Before, he was the Africa Editor of Le Monde and Libération. As a correspondent, he covered West Africa for Reuters and Radio France International. He regularly contributes to the BBC and the London Review of Books....

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