Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past

📢 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

🎓 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

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

✨ The LEAP team is at the Economics Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference this week (8–10 Sept)!

Yesterday, LEAP hosted a special session, showcasing new research under the theme Economic History in South Africa Over a Century.

#LEAP #ESSA2025

📢 LEAP's Karl Bergemann publishes in The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth!

#LEAP #EconHistory #Runaway

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…