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Apr
5
2025

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

When: Saturday, April 5, 2025
All day  

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

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch   (847) 467-0885

Group: Center for Historical Studies

Category: Academic

Description:

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)

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