THE LITTLE ICE AGE AND THE OYO EMPIRE: AN UNFINISHED PROCESS OF RECOVERY
IN WEST AFRICA, ca. 1420-1840

This lecture is free and open to the community.

About Akin Ogundiran:

Akin Ogundiran is Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the African Archaeological Review. Ogundiran’s scholarship focuses primarily on the history and archaeology of the Yoruba world, Atlantic Africa, and the African Diaspora. Ogundiran’s latest book, The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020), is the winner of the 2022 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize.

Hybrid mode / in-person at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (USA)

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The conference will focus on the digital era as an entrepreneurial transformative prototype in Africa. Other aspects of the conference will focus on the channels utilized by Africans while navigating digital instruments, developing well-thought programs and technological innovations. Although technology is easily transferred, the context of the beneficiary nation or community has to take into account optimal application. Africans are applying technology to open all possibilities and devising ways to promote the eradication of poverty. This conference will pivot on digital trajectories and projection into the future beyond the 21st century, exhibiting African innovative competence in the digital era as part of the most critical areas of a holistic organization towards thorough and more broadly social progress.

Historical thinking is one of the most critical skills a college student can acquire. Teaching globally is a vital approach to understanding our contemporary world.

How do we combine the resources available to us from archives, libraries, and online collections to inform our understanding of the past and the present? In this workshop we collaborate across the expertise of librarians and historians to further conversations about teaching, history, and library materials.

Are you a post-secondary educator seeking to build connections across the State of New York? Are you faculty looking for more primary source materials? Are you interested in learning more about how to access materials from libraries at a distance? Are you a graduate student in need of resources and source materials as you construct current and future syllabi? If you have answered "yes" to any of these questions, then please do join us!

This online workshop is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, with funding support from the U.S. Department of Education Title VI NRC Program.

Speakers:

Emily Zinger, Southeast Asia Digital Librarian, Cornell University

Dr. Joshua Kueh, Reference Librarian, Asian Division, Library of Congress

Dr. Michitake Aso, Associate Professor, Department of History, SUNY-Albany

Moderator: Dr. William Noseworthy

1972 > Angola > Directed by Sarah Maldoror
With Domingos Oliveira, Elisa Andrade
A revolutionary bombshell by one of Africa's first female directors, Sarah Maldoror's electrifying chronicle of Angola's awakening independence movement is a stirring hymn to those who risked everything in the fight for freedom. Based on a true story, Sambizanga follows young resistance leader Domingos whose arrest by the Portuguese authorities helps ignite an anti-colonialist uprising and leads his determined wife Maria on an epic journey by foot to save him. Cosponsored by the Institute for African Development. Subtitled. More at www.janusfilms.com/films/2077
1 hr 37 min

The Issues in African Development Seminar Series examines critical concerns in contemporary Africa using a different theme each semester. The seminars provide a forum for participants to explore alternative perspectives and exchange ideas. They are also a focal activity for students and faculty interested in African development. In addition, this seminar series prepares students for higher level courses on African economic, social, and political development. The presentations are designed for students who are interested in development as well as Africa’s place in global studies, want to know about the peoples, cultures, and societies that call Africa home, and wish to explore development theories and alternate viewpoints on development practice.