Conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 2

Name: Conference on caring for the dead in Africa and the Mongolian Empire: Day 2
Start: 2025-04-05T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-06T00:00:00-05:00
Location: Harris Hall, 108

Saturday, April 5, 2025 | All day

Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Faculty CONFERENCE convened by Professors Jonathan BRACK, Sean HANRETTA, and Akinwumi OGUNDIRAN on “Caring for the Dead: Ancestor Veneration, Religious Encounters, and the State in the Mongol Empire and Africa”—Friday and Saturday, April 4-5.

Program at https://historicalstudies.northwestern.edu/events/conferences/Conference%201.html

This conference is organized by the Nicholas D. Chabrja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS).

Co-sponsors: the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asia Research Forum (EARF), and the Program of African Studies (PAS)