We are pleased to announce a three-day conference centered on the theme of using diverse methods and sources to recreate and narrate African history and society from different perspectives.
All interested scholars are welcome.
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates are also invited, both to present papers and to participate in the workshop. Decades ago, Africanists played a crucial role in the development of oral history within the discipline. Today, Africanists are still at the forefront of incorporating new ideas into the historical method, drawing on ecological, medical, archaeological, literary, linguistic, and anthropological materials. These diverse sources and methods inform African history in fundamental ways, but they also sometimes foster a branching of the field into various sub-disciplines. The workshop will be structured much like a graduate-level seminar, and will follow up issues raised by the papers presented during the conference.