Jeff Schauer (History) attended the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Riverside, California. He presented a paper titled, “Friends for Zambia: Rhodesia, the making of a Zambia lobby, and the limits of solidarity, 1964-1974.” This paper examined efforts by the Zambian state and its allies to influence the British public in order to combat an onslaught of Rhodesian propaganda (defending that territory's white nationalist state) against Zambia during the 1960s and early-1970s. These efforts focused on friendly journalists and various societies and associations, and revealed gaps between Zambians' and Britons' understandings of the role of Zambia's national government and of trends and developments in Africa more broadly.

Schauer, the PCCBS secretary and member of the inaugural committee for the award of the PCCBS David Lieberman Presidential Doctoral Student Fellowship, also chaired and commented on a panel titled, “Contested Boundaries: Placemaking, Sub-Imperialism, and Labor on Britain’s Imperial Frontiers.”