When:
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: 620 Library Place, room 106, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Program of African Studies
(847) 491-7323
Group: Program of African Studies
Category: Lectures & Meetings
This is an informal event to preceed the larger presentation this evening: View Event.
The Block Museum presents a special opportunity to hear from six international archaeologists whose excavations in Mali, Morocco, and Nigeria were fundamental to the shaping of the exhibition Caravans of Gold. Exhibition curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock will moderate a conversation that will include insights into the excavation process, the “archaeological imagination,” and the protection of cultural patrimony. Participants include Abidemi Babatunde Babalola (UK), Mamadou Cissé (Mali), Mamadi Dembélé (Mali), Abdallah Fili (Morocco), Ronald A. Messier (US), and Sam Nixon (UK)—joining us from institutions ranging from the Direction nationale du patrimoine culturel of Mali to the British Museum.
Presented by The Block Museum in partnership with the Dept. of Anthropology and Program of African Studies.